Book of Jeremiah
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Proverbs 16: 16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all men liberally and upbraideth not.
God's "wisdom" on a matter never contradicts what He has recorded in Scripture. For this reason, one need not pray about matters that God has already given us His verdict on. One does not need to pray about whether to worship another god because the true God has already said it is wrong (Exodus 20:3). One does not need to pray about whether to participate in spiritism because God has already said it is wrong (Deuteronomy 18:9f.). Likewise, we need not pray about the Book of Mormon because God has already condemned all gospels that contradict that found in the Bible (Galatians 1:6-8).
Finally, it should be stressed that prayer is not the test for religious truth. We are instructed by the apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:21 to objectively "test all things," not pray to receive a subjective feeling that something is true. Though the Bereans believed in prayer, their barometer for truth was not prayer but Scripture (Acts 17:10-12). We should follow their example.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all men liberally and upbraideth not.
God's "wisdom" on a matter never contradicts what He has recorded in Scripture. For this reason, one need not pray about matters that God has already given us His verdict on. One does not need to pray about whether to worship another god because the true God has already said it is wrong (Exodus 20:3). One does not need to pray about whether to participate in spiritism because God has already said it is wrong (Deuteronomy 18:9f.). Likewise, we need not pray about the Book of Mormon because God has already condemned all gospels that contradict that found in the Bible (Galatians 1:6-8).
Finally, it should be stressed that prayer is not the test for religious truth. We are instructed by the apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:21 to objectively "test all things," not pray to receive a subjective feeling that something is true. Though the Bereans believed in prayer, their barometer for truth was not prayer but Scripture (Acts 17:10-12). We should follow their example.
Should Christians pray about the Book of Mormon?
1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
From Ecclesiastes 4
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all men liberally and upbraideth not.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all men liberally and upbraideth not.
Citation?
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all men liberally and upbraideth not.
God's "wisdom" on a matter never contradicts what He has recorded in Scripture. For this reason, one need not pray about matters that God has already given us His verdict on. One does not need to pray about whether to worship another god because the true God has already said it is wrong (Exodus 20:3). One does not need to pray about whether to participate in spiritism because God has already said it is wrong (Deuteronomy 18:9f.). Likewise, we need not pray about the Book of Mormon because God has already condemned all gospels that contradict that found in the Bible (Galatians 1:6-8).
Finally, it should be stressed that prayer is not the test for religious truth. We are instructed by the apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:21 to objectively "test all things," not pray to receive a subjective feeling that something is true. Though the Bereans believed in prayer, their barometer for truth was not prayer but Scripture (Acts 17:10-12). We should follow their example.
Should Christians pray about the Book of Mormon?
I haven't mentioned the Book of Mormon in this thread. And while I have no problem having this discussion with you, I'd rather not derail Jeri's thread.