tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post6513380861773490221..comments2024-03-27T00:26:19.644+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: Can Anyone Explain the Purpose Of Prayer?Rosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-90213598778649980462016-05-04T05:27:47.124+01:002016-05-04T05:27:47.124+01:00Obviously prayer hasn't worked for you cnamagu...Obviously prayer hasn't worked for you cnamagulu, because you don't know who SHE is.hlgeorgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-41099882517366899242015-01-07T19:27:30.449+00:002015-01-07T19:27:30.449+00:00So your omniscient god doesn't know your thoug...So your omniscient god doesn't know your thoughts and desires unless you tell him, and so you need to educate him, eh?<br /><br />Not sure how you've confused your parents with gods. Do they claim to be omniscient and omnibenevolent too?<br />Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-60889715954162091782015-01-07T09:26:47.259+00:002015-01-07T09:26:47.259+00:00Simple answer: the purpose of prayer is to build a...Simple answer: the purpose of prayer is to build a relationship with God. <br /><br />Prayer the way I understand it is communicating or relating with God. He knows everything but we don't. We need to grow just like children relating to their parents, then friends, teachers, mentors, then spouses and each relationship grows the more time we spend nurturing it. <br /><br />Prayer therefore is more than asking for stuff, it's honoring (God does honor us), creating (God passes on ideas or solutions and we share ours and get feedback), worshiping (we worship him), it's celebrating (rejoicing over victories) etc etc. And he has mirrored that relationship in many ways for us in our day to day relationships to enable us have a picture of what it could be like with him. My parents may know the issue I am presenting to them, but that doesn't stop them from letting me tell my version of it. They listen, advise, love, admonish me etc... That's how prayer should be. A relationship, with many facets. Talking to God, which is commonly what prayer is known as, is only one facet. And the more time we spend building that relationship, just like any other, the more we know who he is, and even how to communicate (pray) better. cnamaguluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07639944896245862127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-89487535298507872102014-09-17T04:42:27.523+01:002014-09-17T04:42:27.523+01:00Prayers are only wasted words on the desert air. T...Prayers are only wasted words on the desert air. The greatest mental crime ever commited is that of teaching a child, ''while still upon its mother's knee'', its duty and obedience to god.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08358097277365395636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-88379910785957411852013-03-13T15:18:55.378+00:002013-03-13T15:18:55.378+00:00Meditating and relating to god. Both answers that ...Meditating and relating to god. Both answers that are becoming more common in recent years. Understandably since as Rosa's article demonstrates, prayer-for-results makes no sense and never did, but where does that leave the pope when he prays for peace. Is he standing up there meditating or is he just making his audience wait while he relates to god?<br /><br />What about people who pray for healing at Lourdes and at bedsides? Shouldn't someone explain to them that it doesn't work like that?<br /><br />Worse, there are all those who say "I will pray for you". What a strange thing to say if it means "I will go relate to god for my own benefit for you"<br /><br />Also I seem to recall a few examples in the bible which were prayers-for-results. <br /><br />Wasn't Samson supposed to have used prayer to knock down a temple, Joshua a city wall and Elisha to have some annoying children ripped apart by bears. I suppose we can't count the prayers of Jesus since he was talking to himself (and rather worrying getting a reply).<br /><br />The fact is that inventing prayer was always a case of painting yourself into a corner. You can't claim prayers work and yet you can't admit that they don't. The day was bound to come when people said "hang on a minute... this makes no sense...". The 'meditating/relating' explanations are a futile attempt to tip-toe across the wet paint, trying not to mess it up.Panikoshttp://pov.hard-facts.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-87889636096659945322013-02-25T22:50:08.848+00:002013-02-25T22:50:08.848+00:00Prayer is not to update the knowledge of god, as h...Prayer is not to update the knowledge of god, as he already knows you are a sinner. Prayer is the human act of relating to god, it is for the human and their benefit. It is a mirror for themselves, to reform themselves. Prayer in its finality is the acceptance of what is given as the goal of your efforts.<br /> <br />Some people ask for cars in their prayer, only god can help them. <br /> <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-10846863666132788462012-12-22T00:06:56.833+00:002012-12-22T00:06:56.833+00:00Do you meditate?Do you meditate?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com