Spiderman
Veteran Member
That would actually be cool if you could ask for what you wanted, and God would tell you the price and then give you what you paid for.
Like, you want wisdom, understanding, and enlightenment. Give 50% of your income to charity, fast for 40 days on liquids, fruits, and vegetables, suffer this affliction I give you as a penitential offering, pray 200 hail Mary's a day for 40 days, 30 Lord's prayers a day, offer up your annoying chores and job responsibilities, and I will give you the first degrees of wisdom, understanding, and enlightenment.
Or, I want to know the job God wants me to pursue....I want to have the wife/husband God wants me to have...give God x, y, z and you have paid the price, and He will give you x, y, and z.
Yes, I know, that isn't the way it is, and I've come to terms with that. But wouldn't we have a better world, if God let us know the price for receiving extraordinary graces or favors, or there was a guarantee that if you do and pray x, y, and z, out will come from God , the purchased goods that you paid for.
See, I have been praying incessantly for over ten years for understanding, enlightenment, some ability to know what God's will is, some ability to discern what course God wants me to take.
Sure, God and the Kami have given many graces and unexplainable coincidences along the way that strengthen my faith, prove that they exist, and are involved in my life, but I'd still consider myself to be a very confused person, without much clue at all what the hell to do with myself.
Also, I have experienced the average Christian and Muslim telling me the graces I do receive and messages from Heaven are actually from Demons, because I have relationships with entities that are not God, and supposedly that is forbidden.
If that is the case, God is completely unreliable , because I have been praying to him for understanding daily, and Scripture says "ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you." Whatever confusion I have is confusion God wants me to have, because I trusted in him to give me understanding, and he told me to go to various Heavenly beings. I have found nothing more healing and empowering than my relationship with some of the women in Heaven who have helped me. All Christian Churches on the face of the earth contacted souls in Heaven before the 16th century.
(What Christians need to recognize is that it isn't unbiblical/unchristian to have relationships with Heavenly beings who are not God.)
But anyway, yeah, it would be nice if you could know how to obtain grace from God. If there was a price you could simply pay and then it would come.
Thoughts?
Like, you want wisdom, understanding, and enlightenment. Give 50% of your income to charity, fast for 40 days on liquids, fruits, and vegetables, suffer this affliction I give you as a penitential offering, pray 200 hail Mary's a day for 40 days, 30 Lord's prayers a day, offer up your annoying chores and job responsibilities, and I will give you the first degrees of wisdom, understanding, and enlightenment.
Or, I want to know the job God wants me to pursue....I want to have the wife/husband God wants me to have...give God x, y, z and you have paid the price, and He will give you x, y, and z.
Yes, I know, that isn't the way it is, and I've come to terms with that. But wouldn't we have a better world, if God let us know the price for receiving extraordinary graces or favors, or there was a guarantee that if you do and pray x, y, and z, out will come from God , the purchased goods that you paid for.
See, I have been praying incessantly for over ten years for understanding, enlightenment, some ability to know what God's will is, some ability to discern what course God wants me to take.
Sure, God and the Kami have given many graces and unexplainable coincidences along the way that strengthen my faith, prove that they exist, and are involved in my life, but I'd still consider myself to be a very confused person, without much clue at all what the hell to do with myself.
Also, I have experienced the average Christian and Muslim telling me the graces I do receive and messages from Heaven are actually from Demons, because I have relationships with entities that are not God, and supposedly that is forbidden.
If that is the case, God is completely unreliable , because I have been praying to him for understanding daily, and Scripture says "ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you." Whatever confusion I have is confusion God wants me to have, because I trusted in him to give me understanding, and he told me to go to various Heavenly beings. I have found nothing more healing and empowering than my relationship with some of the women in Heaven who have helped me. All Christian Churches on the face of the earth contacted souls in Heaven before the 16th century.
(What Christians need to recognize is that it isn't unbiblical/unchristian to have relationships with Heavenly beings who are not God.)
But anyway, yeah, it would be nice if you could know how to obtain grace from God. If there was a price you could simply pay and then it would come.
Thoughts?
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