The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser

Tag: Imprecatory Prayer

  • Question: Will Christians Praying for Your Demise Have Their Prayers Answered?

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    Several weeks back, I asked readers to submit questions they would like me to answer. If you would like to ask a question, please leave your question here.

    Steve asked:

    Yes sir, I have a question!

    Do you think the many Christian prayers for your demise will succeed?

    Many Christians believe that God should get all the praise for the good things that happen and Satan and sinners should get blamed for the bad things that happen. This fact poses a conundrum for those praying for my demise. If God kills me, this means it was a good thing, right?  But, if God is the giver of life, the fact that I am still alive is also a good thing.  Perhaps God wants me to live so the Holy Spirit can regenerate me, effectually call me, and impart to me his wonderful irresistible grace. Or perhaps I am not one of the elect, not in the Lamb’s Book of Life; then I am an unregenerate, apostate reprobate. If I were God, I would kill someone like me, seeing that I do so much damage to the faith of others.

    Some day, I will die. The way I am feeling as I write this post, it could be today. Or tomorrow. Or twenty years from now. Regardless of the date of my demise, there will a Christian somewhere who will see it as proof that their imprecatory prayer worked,;that God whacked me because they asked him to.