So, what are a pray and the point of praying? Do you know how to pray? Do you get your prayers answered?
I wonder why they need to congregate to 'pray' when the could so easily do it at home, and use the travelling time to and fro for a more productive purpose?
It depends on what you are praying for... Sometimes it's expressing thanks for things you had happen to you which were good. Sometimes it's asking help in hard times..... I personally think it's a waste of time. I'm a deist, and do not believe God touches or effects the universe. However, for some people it conforts them. But too often people think prayer is all that's needed, and they don't have to do anything for themselves cause god will take care of it. I call this spiritual laziness. And if there is a god who ansers prayers, I am sure he hates these people.
Acknowledge doesn't mean that you think it means. It means to accept the truth of something. You seem to think it means to tell someone something or pass information.
Pardon me, I am not a native English speaker. May be I should check my vocabulary. I meant "acknowledge" as in "inform" or "letting know".
' In english acknowledge means to admit truth. To acknoledge something means to admit the truth in it. For example, a father can acknowledge that an illegitimate child is their child.
Prayers are the result of the fact that God is Christians' imaginary friend who is supposedly everywhere and listening in to everyone, but doesn't directly appear to and communicate to people. So we can only have these strange one-sided communications, where God might communicate back with feelings or coincidences or something. Imagine if your father was never around, and the only way you could communicate with him was with one-sided letters, and then imagine if he was going to punish you eternally for believing in the wrong father.
Praying is a performance originated by man that is intended to give comfort to the people that believed the tales told to them by man.
Prayer is a condescension. I can author a character that knows that they are a character. I can even author a dialog between myself and that character. However, that dialog is not a conversation; it is a condescension. Prayer is not a conversation with God; it is a condescension by God. There is another way by which an author can condescend to his characters. He can write himself into his novel work as himself. He would be no less the author because he is also a character, and his character would be no less a character than any of his other characters. Jesus Christ is God's character.
I voted other, from my point of view, it's asking for the strength that is inside us, not a shopping list.
