Christians are to love, and pray for, their enemies.
So while we pray for all the victims, for law enforcement, and for everyone else hurt by this, should we also pray for the man who did the shooting?
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Yes, and leave it in Gods hands
Archer
By christian logic one should pray for anyone who has done wrong.
Does it make a difference? Only in the christian mind as "they" feel better some how.
My thoughts are reserved for the victims and their families as it seems that god blinked and did not see this one coming. The victims and families need are far more important than those fo the shooter.
The shooter needs to be remembered as the coward he is. Shooting innocents from the back is an assumed safe place and in the dark, while wearing ballistic vests. This was an act of coward is and in my book he should receive no mercy!
us.littlefairy
Yes we should pray for all the families and the victims we should also be praying that God's will be done and that he would see us all thought his time of trouble. We should also be praying for the man who did the shooting. We should pray for every lost sole and pray that the people involved in this are able to forgive him because it says we should for give 7x70 every day. To forgive someone can help you sometimes more than anyone. There is a song that say's "Lord won't you forgive them they don't know what they are doing, Lord give me grace to forgive them cause I feel like the one losing." We should pray that something good can be made out of this tragedy. Hard times are when we need God the most and also the times when we tend to fall away. I would pray that these people draw closer to God not further away.
Laura
(Just going to put out there that I am agnostic)
Personally, I think Christians should pray for the shooter, as well. It's obvious that he's facing some degree of difficulty, mentally, because of disorders or just going through rough times. We don't know. But I've always thought that Christianity was about seeing every point of view, even if you don't agree with it, and respecting everyone regardless of your own personal bias.
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