[Vision2020] Fantasy vs. Reality Fourth Installment

[heirdoug at netscape.net]

Sunil,

Maybe we can agree that the word's of my Lord Jesus Christ might not be 
a clear example of impacation because you might say that he was God and 
we are not. His speaking through the Psalmist in Psalm 22 and Psalm 69 
(in the first person) would be claimed by some as not His words alone. 
The Lord Jesus taught and practiced unconditional love, but He also 
imprecated the unbelieving cities of Capernaum, Chorazin and Bethsaida. 
He said that they were under greater judgment than Tyre, Sidon or 
Sodom! (See Matthew 11:20-24.)

As far as other New Testament prayers and pronouncements:

"If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be accursed" (1 Corinthians 
16:22)

Galatians 1:8-9. "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach 
a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally 
condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is 
preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be 
eternally condemned!"

And my favorite passage of all of the saints in the Church praying this 
type of prayer we only have to look to the last book as published in 
the Bible: "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge the 
inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" (See Revelation 6:10.)

There may be others; we are told in the NT to sing and pray from the 
Psalms. I take this to mean that we should have an attitude of prayer 
when we worship and sing from the psalms.

I have tried to make this clear. I hope this helps

lemeno, Doug!







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Doug won't answer you because it would show Dog W to be the non-leader 
he
is.

NO! Those type of prayers are certainly not in the NT - in fact, as was
pointed out by someone earlier, Jesus specifically tells us to pray for 
good
things for our enemies and to show them the kind of kindness we want to 
be
shown.

A lesson a non-ordained pastor knows little about.

J :]





>From: "Sunil Ramalingam" <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>
>To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fantasy vs. Reality Fourth Installment
>Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:31:06 -0800
>
>Doug,
>
>Are imprecatory prayers encouraged in the New Testament?
>
>Sunil
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