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Originally Posted by pelathais
I haven't heard of anyone attaching that term to this idea. I have heard about people who say things like, "I prayed after they were on the road and before I had heard that they arrived at their destination... they arrived safely, so my prayers were answered..."
I think that I've heard people also who sort of were reaching out for the concept that you describe. I don't buy into this.
If things worked out beneficially, or if the damages were at least mitigated then we are THANKFUL for what happened. The only way that this concept of "radio-active prayers" can be posited is if the outcome is still uncertain. Then the prayer is offered for the desired outcome.
I'd have to hear the actual "teaching" involved of course, but the whole thing sounds like someone misunderstood something from a physics television program and then tried to apply their misunderstanding to the Bible.
Do you have more information on this?
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Definition of
RETROACTIVE (BTW that was my word not theirs.)
: extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past; especially : made effective as of a date prior to enactment, promulgation, or imposition
Quite simply, It was implied that prayers offered in present tense can effect the "outcome" of events already occurred. This, made possible by the fact that God is not "bound by time". Of course, the "outcome" was unknown to those praying at the time.
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