Now I know that we are to pray to God, but I’m not so sure that this changes what God has already intended to do, so I’m just a little bit suspicious of our being told, in Timothy to do this, approach God in a pleading manner?
2:1 Therefore, I beside-call firstly of~all [matters], to~petitions, to~prayers, to~pleadings, [and] to~thankings to be made over all men,
4:5 for through a~word of~God, and a~pleading it be sanctified.
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(Billy Gramham)
…Worse than Hitler? But my intentions were good!
(Animals)
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood …
(Billy Gramham)
Baby, do you understand me now
Sometimes I feel a little mad
But don’t you know that no one alive
Can always be an angel
(Hitler)
Oh stop your whining Billy, you know our pleading aint gonna gitit, right …
(Robin)
The words are ….
1783 GK1950 enteuxeOs (p1/1) of~a~pleading N-GSF.10
1783 GK1950 enteuxeis (p1/1) to~pleadings N-APF.16
… and they only appear in 1Timothy (see below).
Now I know that we are to pray to God, but I’m not so sure that this changes what God has already intended to do, so I’m just a little bit suspicious of our being told, in Timothy to do this, approach God in a pleading manner?
2:1 Therefore, I beside-call firstly of~all [matters], to~petitions, to~prayers, to~pleadings, [and] to~thankings to be made over all men,
4:5 for through a~word of~God, and a~pleading it be sanctified.
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