Isaiah 45:7
I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.
Proverbs 22:6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Matthew 5:48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
You know, lying like that never worked for the missionaries either.
No matter who asked for what in prayer concerning the coal miners, and No matter who believed what about the coal miners.
Accidentally, a whole Church full of Believers is told that all but one of the coal miners are dead. They all believe that the prayers that they've been praying have been answered, which, complies with the scripture if you want an answer, and no matter what the hell is written
in the Bible, even what's in Black and White don't work.
Psalm 32:6 Therefore let everyone who is godly pray to you while you may be found;
surely when the mighty waters rise, they will not reach him.
The only people to avoid the Tsunami, don't pray to the Lord God, or even believe in Jesus Christ. Check at this link. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/18/60minutes/main681558.shtml
Biblically, they don't even know which way it went, if they are Christians.
John 19:30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Luke 23: 46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last.
Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Mark 15:37 With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.
Matthew 27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Matthew 27:50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
Matthew 20:16 "So the last will be first, and the first will be last."
He couldn't win to make himself the center of right and wrong, and having refused to instruct the people on how they ought to raise their children, his antics, magic act, displays, and his will to one day be God, were thrown out of heaven. Why, as follows.
Proverbs 22:6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Where wisdom is only advice, priorities are set by law, and there is nothing unwise in the law or obeying it.