let's make a list of what we think are possible answers used to explain why God does not answer our prayers. i will start with a few here, and we can build on it.
1. praying for the wrong thing.
2. he has not answered yet.
3. silence means 'no'.
4. he has answered, but the petitioner has not seen it.
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5. the petitioner has sin in their life that hinders their prayers.
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6. those statements on prayer were meant for a specific place and time - theirs, not ours.
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7. 'ask/receive' does not mean what we think it means.
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8. when it comes to true honest-to-god faith, christians today live in apostasy.
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This is good, but let’s not assume that pat answers are necessarily wrong … or right. We just need good answers; I don’t care where they come from.
shows my bias, doesn't it? let's take off the 'pat' part and replace it with 'possible': making a list of possible answers. with that change, do some possibilities appear?
adding one other possibility: the petitioner has sin in their life that hinders their prayers.
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