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God is good!

To the Journal editor:

My Prayers Say It All. (If that’s not enough, what is?)

“The effectual prayer of a righteous man availeth much!” Part B of the sixteenth Verse in the fifth Chapter of James, KJV of the Holy Bible. Part A reads: “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.”

It is made abundantly clear that confessing one’s faults is not unilateral, rather it is prayerful exchange of confessions between two or more of equal status before God who are thereby petitioned! Confessing one’s sins to a cleric leads to the necessity laid upon the cleric to as- sume a role which may exceed the will of God in the absolution of sin! One would be hesitant to pique that Holy Will, even if absolution was conferred upon a penitent petitioner by a cleric duly ordained and seeking in the name of Jesus Christ! The element of exclusion would not be intended by the cleric; however, the petitioner seeking absolution may not be visited by the same spiritual connotation that the cleric seeks to invoke, and does, to his/her own satisfaction!

The modern trend established by much of today’s “organized worshipful ministries” is based on the presumption of innocence in the ranks of parishioners carte blanche! Christianity is to the individual of any ilk who “seeks first the Kingdom of God AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS”! The inclination in today’s “churchiness” is to somehow intertwine the two separate demographic entities (politics and religion) into one “spiritual” commodity, to the accommodation of those who, in self-righteousness, presume that their adjudications supercede those belonging to Almighty God as their province in the behalf!

Do all of the lamentations over “misuse of the Will Of God” follow to the letter the intention laid bare by Jesus Christ in His pronouncements to suppliants eager to somehow justify their will in matters of human life by their expectations? Is their approach to the question religious or political?

Martin Hendrickson

Munising

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