Questions tagged [lords-prayer]
Questions relating to the prayer taught by Jesus to his disciples. This is narrated in the gospel at Matthew 6:9–13 and Luke 11:2–4.
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What biblical reasons are there for using the Lord's Prayer as a pattern for prayer rather than a prayer to repeat verbatim?
In Matthew 6:9-13, Jesus gave the disciples what we refer to as "the Lord's Prayer," (though Jesus Himself would never have prayed this, having no sin to confess).
Some traditions use this prayer as ...
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Did Protestants get "Thine is the Kingdom etc..." from the Didache?
So, I was writing an answer to a question a few minutes ago, and I was going to smugly tell all you Protestants that your "thine is the Kingdom" doxology is so non-Biblical, it's apocryphal.
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What's the tradition behind hand holding during the Our Father at Mass?
In traveling around my diocese I've noticed that there are some parishes that are hand-holders and some parishes that are non-hand-holders and some people in the non-hand-holder parishes who persist ...
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Are there designated circumstances for making prayer to Jesus and making prayer to God?
The vast majority of Christians believe that Jesus is God, however, they are also mysteriously separate beings, yet the same as well (the Trinity). It is acceptable to those same Christians to pray to ...
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If God doesn't tempt us, why does the Lord's Prayer petition Him to "lead us not into temptation"?
Matthew 6:9-13 Jesus instructs us:
“This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today ...
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Why the wrongness of "Our Father" translation wasn't spotted earlier? [closed]
Pope Francis thinks the church should tweak the translation of the “Our Father” to clear up the confusion around the phrase “lead us not into temptation.”
We all know God doesn't lead us into ...
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How do Protestants interpret "Give us this day our daily bread"?
Disclaimer: I understand that there is no monolithic Protestant belief on any topic except a protestation of the Catholic Church. That being said - I would appreciate it if this answer contained some ...
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Couldn't it be idol worship to pray to Jesus if he is not God? [duplicate]
God said that we shouldn't pray to anything other than Him. Otherwise it would be idol worship. That means Christians who pray to Jesus should not have an iota of doubt that Jesus wasn't someone else, ...
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