hearing sinners on the question does god hear the prayers of sinners we need to distinguish if we say that he never hears the prayers of any who have sinned we make pointless all prayers by anyone born less than centuries ago but if we consider the prayers of the impenitent sinner of someone who says lord i want you to do this for me but don t expect me to change my way of life that is a different matter even here i would not venture to say that god never grants such petitions just as he sends sun and rain on the evil and on the good however if someone we know well is praying to god in that spirit we might have the responsibility to say remember if god s help is real then so are his commands yours james kiefer
