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NASB | Romans 1:8 ¶ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 1:8 ¶ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith [your trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness] is being proclaimed in all the world. |
Subject: pray to God or Jesus or same?? |
Bible Note: Will God answer your prayer if you don't end with, "In Jesus' name, Amen?" Learn what praying in the name of Jesus really means. "I think Jehovah's Witnesses really miss the point by making the big fuss about God's real name, Jehovah. Even the word Jehovah is a conflated (combined) name using portions of two different Hebrew words. We're not even sure what the tetragrammaton really was and what it was pronounced like. After you translate it into other languages, it has a different sound anyway. "What is surprising, though, is that Christians have a very similar practice. We think we are doing something spiritual and end up doing something superstitious. In the process we don't really do the spiritual thing that we intended to accomplish. The "name of God" or "in the name of Jesus" means something different than repeating those words. "Read the New Testament. It says there... "Anything you ask in my name, that will I do." We have presumed that what that means is that we must add a phrase after prayer . . . in order to make it work . . . " "Just about every time we finish praying we tack this phrase on at the end, "In the name of Jesus. Amen." We do that because we were told to pray in the name of Jesus and God would answer. We expect that in doing so it seals the power of the prayer. I think that is superstitious because praying in the name of Jesus doesn't mean saying, "In the name of Jesus." (...) "One thing you will notice when you highlight every prayer, every supplication towards God that is uttered in the text of the New Testament is that you will never see a New Testament prayer that ends with the phrase "In Jesus' name. Amen," even though the same text teaches you to pray in Jesus' name. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to draw the conclusion that we are, first, to pray in the name of Jesus, and second, praying in the name of Jesus doesn't mean ending your prayer with the phrase "In the name of Jesus. Amen," because it is never done in the New Testament. "Ending prayers with that phrase might do nothing whatsoever to the efficacy of your prayer. I even submit that it might be hurting your prayer, depending on what you mean by the phrase. "What does it mean to pray in the name of someone if it doesn't mean saying, "In the name of..."?" To read this entire article, go to: In the Name of Jesus by Gregory Koukl at the following website: (www.str.org/free/commentaries/theology/nameofje.htm) 18508 |