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Why is prayer necessary?
- Thread starter retrorich
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hehe Good question;retrorich said:
As He created life on the earth, God said "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over...all the earth."(Genesis 1:26) (Genesis 1:27-28) Also, Psalm 8 refers to humans as having been made "a little lower than God" and "made...to have dominion over the works of Your hands." The earth was completely given over to Adam as its manager or governor. So complete and final was Adam's authority over the earth that he, not just God, had the ability to give it away to another! Without question, humans were forever to be God's link to authority and activity on the earth."*
In other words, Scripture could hardly be more clear in telling us that God limited Himself, in the affairs of earth, to working through human beings. This explains the necessity of prayer.
(www.lord-of-lords.com)
retrorich said:It does? Are you saying that God is NOT omniscient--that he does NOT know all our thoughts? My question was not meant to be about authority, but rather about communication. In addition to prayer, can God be reached by email and fax?
That, to me implies that God set limits on himself (Not that he was unable, but unwilling to do so)
retrorich
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Good point! I feel that prayer is a form of psychological catharsis, to make people feel better. I fact, in my atheistic opinion, that is also the only valid usefulness of religion in general, other than allowing humans to control other humans through dogma.jgallandt said:I also believe that prayer is more for us, not God. God knows our thoughts, knows our needs, but we need to ask, to acknowledge God. It is a way to bring us closer to him.
yes it is true that God knows our thoughts even before we think them. the reason for prayer is to develope a relationship with Him, its our way of communicating with Him, to show our dependence on Him and to glorify Him.
put it this way, if you are in love with someone you want to be with that person as much as possible and you want to share your most intiment thoughts and feelings. if you dont spend time sharing your thoughts and feelings then you will never truely know that person.
this is what God wants, a deep, meaningful and loving relationship with you.
i hope this cleared things up for you
put it this way, if you are in love with someone you want to be with that person as much as possible and you want to share your most intiment thoughts and feelings. if you dont spend time sharing your thoughts and feelings then you will never truely know that person.
this is what God wants, a deep, meaningful and loving relationship with you.
i hope this cleared things up for you
Abram
Abraham
Why do you get dressed in the morning to go to work? Why bother to do anything?
While the Heavenly Father knows what we need before we ask, our supplications are in and of themselves an acknowledgement of our dependence on him. And that alone is enough reason to pray without ceasing.
"And when you pray, do not keep babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you want before you ask him" -Matthew 6:7-8
While the Heavenly Father knows what we need before we ask, our supplications are in and of themselves an acknowledgement of our dependence on him. And that alone is enough reason to pray without ceasing.
"And when you pray, do not keep babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you want before you ask him" -Matthew 6:7-8