Prayer at home (Public prayer)

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BEN

> >Ben9275375 wrote:

> >

> >> Thank you all who resopnded to my query.  Hopefully the Purdue campus

will

> >> read the 'word of God'  [Matthew 6:1, 5-6, from the Sermon on the

Mount

> >>rn] and decide that >>they shouldn't go to church (or at least feel

> >>awkward there).

> >>

> >> Ben

> >> (Ben9275375@aol.com)

> >

> >Dennis Rainer:

> >Uh....I wouldn't hold my breath. No theist I've ever brought

> >this passage up to has taken the advice yet. Even when they

> >go look it up for themselves, it slides off them like water

> >off a duck's back :)

> >

> >MICHAEL MCGILL(2/27)

> >Yeah they will quote you Hebrews 10:25 "Not forsaking the assembling of

> >ourselves together,..."

> 

> RALPH

> "...not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of SOME, but

> encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching"

> (Hebrews 10:25, my caps in SOME).

> 

> This verse does not support praying in public, either. It simply mentions

> the fact that SOME meet together, obviously not in public. And it doesn't

> say they the pray together, only that they meet together. And the

clincher

> against today's prayer-pushers, is the last phrase: "...as you see the

Day

> approaching." The date of Hebrews is uncertain, as is the author, but it

is

> definitely 1st century. Ask your prayer-pushers just when in the 1st

> century the great Day occurred. It didn't, of course, and all those who

met

> together in the 1st century, waiting for Jesus to come again, are long

dead.

> 

> Doesn't that tell us that prayer is useless?

> 

IAN
Did Jesus ever pray in public?

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