On 22/07/2005 18:45, Jim West wrote:
... If some early Christians believed in magic (and some clearly did!)... and prayer is the most "magical" of all vocalizations.
I know this is well off topic, but I can't allow this attack on the Christian faith to pass without comment. Christian prayer is not magic. The early Christians clearly distanced themselves from magic, as is clear in Acts 8 and 19. The two have nothing in common. Christians, along with most other religious believers, believed and still believe that (at least in some circumstances) a personal God acts when asked to in prayer. That is quite different from magic which is a belief in some kind of impersonal supernatural force.
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