Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi
Missionary Кристиан написал то:
Сказанное Иесус: «И когда вы молите, не используйте тщетные повторения как языческое сделайте. Для они думают что они будут услышаны для их много слов.» (Matt 6:7)
Докажите к мне что вы не используете тщетные повторения и много слов в вашем РИТУАЛЕ молитвы (точно что Иесус предупреженного около).
Реакция
Несчастливо, заявки missionary просто не держат воду. Заявка missionary то согласно Иесус (p) в Matthew 6:7, христианках не должна спросить Almighty бога больше чем как только приблизительно тот же самая вещь, потому что только heathens практикуют то. Но препятствуйте нам посмотреть что Иесус (p себя) напрактиковал когда он начал помолить к богу:
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Matthew 16:36 - 44:
36. После этого Иесус пошло с его disciples к вызванному месту Gethsemane, и он сказал к им, «сидите здесь пока я иду over there и молю.»
37. Он принял Питер и 2 сынка Zebedee вместе с им, и он начал быть скорбн и побеспокоил.
38. После этого он сказал к им, «моя душа overwhelmed с скорбой к точка смерти. Останьтесь здесь и сдержитесь вахту с мной.»
39. Идущ немного далекое, он упал с его стороной к земле и помолил, «мой отец, если по возможности, то может эта чашка быть принят от меня. Но не по мере того как я воля, но как вы буду.»
40. После этого он возвратил к его disciples и нашел, что они поспали. «Смогли вы люди не держат вахту с мной на один час?» он спросил Питер.
41. «Наблюдайте и молите так НОП вы не упадете в заманчивость. Дух охотно готов, но тело слабо.»
42. Он пошел прочь второе время и помолил, «мой отец, если не по возможности для этой чашки быть take away если я не выпить ее, может ваша воля быть сделано.», то
43. Когда он come back, он снова находил, что они поспали, потому что их глаза были тяжелы.
44. Так он оставил они и пошел прочь once more и помолил the third time, говорить такая же вещь.
How many времена сделали Иесус (p) повторили молитву в таком малом периоде времени? 3 времени! Since we are discussing about “vain repetitions”, Jesus(P) is apparently making some “vain repetitions”, according to the missionary “logic” in interpreting Matthew 6:7!
But let us rescue this missionary from his predicament. Henry’s Concise Commentary states the following about the interpretation of Matthew 6:5-8.
[5-8] It is taken for granted that all who are disciples of Christ pray. You may as soon find a living man that does not breathe, as a living Christian that does not pray. If prayerless, then graceless. The Scribes and Pharisees were guilty of two great faults in prayer, vain-glory and vain repetitions. “Verily they have their reward;” if in so great a matter as is between us and God, when we are at prayer, we can look to so poor a thing as the praise of men, it is just that it should be all our reward. Yet there is not a secret, sudden breathing after God, but he observes it. It is called a reward, but it is of grace, not of debt; what merit can there be in begging? If he does not give his people what they ask, it is because he knows they do not need it, and that it is not for their good. So far is God from being wrought upon by the length or words of our prayers, that the most powerful intercessions are those which are made with groanings that cannot be uttered. Let us well study what is shown of the frame of mind in which our prayers should be offered, and learn daily from Christ how to pray.[1]
We also read the following in The Wycliffe Bible Commentary:
Vain repetitions (i.e., babbling speech) are characteristic of pagan (heathen or Gentile) praying, as ostentation is of hypocrites. Such action regards prayer as an effort to overcome God’s unwillingness to respond by wearying him with words. Yet it is not mere length nor repetition that Christ condemns (Jesus prayed all night, Luke 6:12, and repeated his petitions, Matt 26:44), but the unworthy motive that prompts such religious acts.[2]
The following appears in the HarperCollins Bible Commentary:
Jesus affirms that God does reward those who practice piety “in secret” . . . The theme of heavenly reward is present elsewhere in Matthew . . . and is more prominent in this Gospel than in the others. Three instances of piety are mentioned: almsgiving (6:2-4), prayer (6:7-15), and fasting (6:16-18). The assumption is that Jesus’ followers will do all these things. Almsgiving referred to charitable contributions above and beyond the stipulated tithes and offerings everyone was expected to make. Prayer included the practice of reciting certain memorized or liturgical prayers at key times of the day (the Shema was to be said twice; the Eighteen Benedictions, three times). The section on praying is interrupted by a presentation of the Lord’s Prayer. Fasting meant going without food entirely or, sometimes, adopting a restricted diet in penitence for one’s sin, in observance of a national day, as an expression of mourning, or simply as a way of strengthening one’s communion with God….[3]
In other words, Jesus (P) was not criticising “repetitions” of prayer, but rather, the excessive, repetitive noise of groanings that the Scribes and Pharisees during Jesus’ (P) time were fond of doing in prayer. A study of the historical context within what Jesus(P) said should be examined before the missionary make these accusations of “vain repetitions” towards the Muslims!
And only God knows best.
References
[1] Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1991 by Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.
[2] The Wycliffe Bible Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1962 by Moody Press.
[3] HarperCollins Bible Commentary, Revised Edition. General Editor James L. Mays, 2000 pp. 876
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