Prayers for the past events
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I like thinking about things like this, but it gets sort of science fictiony. I've long thought that God isn't limited to linear time like you and I. We only experience the present, and remember the past. But I think God is currently in the past, in the present, and in the future. The Great I Am is the alpha and omega, he's in the past, present and future. (See Rev. 22:13)
I don't think you can pray and expect things in the past to change. But before those past things happened God knew about your (then) future prayers, and took them into account. So I'd say it can't hurt to pray. Also, perhaps you could pray for God to grant you understanding of how those past events worked for His will and glory, and for you to somehow play a role in furthering His will and glorifying Him.
I don't think you can pray and expect things in the past to change. But before those past things happened God knew about your (then) future prayers, and took them into account. So I'd say it can't hurt to pray. Also, perhaps you could pray for God to grant you understanding of how those past events worked for His will and glory, and for you to somehow play a role in furthering His will and glorifying Him.
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This is interesting, but I'm not sure I'm getting what you guys are saying.
The past has already happened and I just can't see it changing now. Even if we say God took our future prayers into account before a past event happened and changed it. Wouldn't it still just be the past now? I mean it is the only reality we know? It is what it is now, right.
The past has already happened and I just can't see it changing now. Even if we say God took our future prayers into account before a past event happened and changed it. Wouldn't it still just be the past now? I mean it is the only reality we know? It is what it is now, right.
So when God knew about our prayes before the world was created, my prayer I will make tomorrow will influence what He knew before the foundation of the world? 
In that case it has this effect and can change the past...?
In that case it has this effect and can change the past...?
[for me anyway] what has happened God appointed to happen for His purpose: for if it were so to pray for the past to be changed, we could pray for the fall of man to not have happened, so that the garden of Eden could we be in until now; but we know better. Beside that if praying for the past were ordained of God, then wherefore should we press for the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus? and also forget the things which are behind, and reach forth unto those things which are before?
This is a tad morbid, but for people who have died without knowing Christ or had no interest in Him, we cannot pray for their salvation as they lost their opportunity (that is life). We cannot change the fact that there is one death and then judgement (unless of course, one raises the dead haha). So, in this same respect, the past is concrete. If prayers could change the past, or alter it, would there even be one soul in Hell?
Now, what can be done I suppose is a prayer for God to remove something from one's memory. If in Heaven we will not have sorrow and certain knowledge will be erased (so as to not cause mourning), could not God then, in this life, remove memories of the past or how they affect our heart?
Now, what can be done I suppose is a prayer for God to remove something from one's memory. If in Heaven we will not have sorrow and certain knowledge will be erased (so as to not cause mourning), could not God then, in this life, remove memories of the past or how they affect our heart?
