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To: Heart-Rest
Does an All-Powerful God have enough power to choose to enable some of His creatures to hear as many prayers as God wants them to hear, or does an All-Powerful God NOT have enough power to enable that?

God has the power to make the sky turn green.

But it doesn't happen just because a group of Christians says it does.

No man whether alive or dead is omnipresent. That's the domain of Deity.

575 posted on 07/15/2013 12:47:37 PM PDT by what's up
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To: what's up
"No man whether alive or dead is omnipresent. That's the domain of Deity."

Nobody is telling you anywhere that humans are omnipresent. You are completely misinterpreting that.

You said in post #215 the following:

"Saints in Heaven cannot hear every prayer on earth. Only god has the power to do that."

Do you believe that God has the power to enable human saints in heaven to hear multiple requests for prayers from humans on Earth requesting that that particular saint pray with/for them?

Do you really believe "With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26? You are not only imposing arbitrary constrictions on saints, but you are also imposing constrictions on God.

Please read the following extract of a great article discussing these issues which can be found here:

"Any Friend of God is a Friend of Mine" By Patrick Madrid

How Could They Hear All those Prayers?

There’s also the "multiple prayer" objection: How can the saints hear all those millions of simultaneous prayers, in all those different languages? That would require them to be omniscient and omnipresent, but only God is omniscient and omnipresent.

This is faulty reasoning on three levels.

First, since the saints are living in eternity they are not limited by time and space because they are beyond both. One might say it takes no time at all to hear all those prayers because the saints have no time.

Second, there is a finite number of people on earth, so there is a finite number of prayers at any one time. So, neither omniscience nor omnipresence is required to hear all the prayers ever prayed at one time, no matter how great their number.

Third, our inability to understand how the saints hear so many prayers is hardly a reason to deny that they can hear them. In their glorified state the saints are capable of doing things we can barely imagine: "Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, [nor has it] entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Cor 2:9). Those in heaven rejoice over the repentance of even one sinner (Lk 15:7, 10), but we have no details about how they can know about individual repentances.

We know that in heaven we will be transformed into the image of Christ’s glorious, resurrected body. "We shall be like him," Paul assures us (Phil 3:20-21). John says, "We are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is" (1 Jn 3:2). In his resurrected, glorified body, Jesus did all sorts of incredible things, such as walk through walls (Jn 20:19). "So also is the resurrection of the dead. [The body] is sown corruptible; it is raised incorruptible. It is sown dishonorable; it is raised glorious. It is sown weak; it is raised powerful" (1 Cor 15:42-43). Heaven is an amazing place filled with people who, by God’s infinite grace, are capable of doing amazing things.


772 posted on 07/15/2013 9:35:55 PM PDT by Heart-Rest (Good reading ==> | ncregister.com | catholic.com | ewtn.com | newadvent.org |)
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