maporsche wrote:RexRed wrote:cicerone imposter wrote:"Whether the prayer is a "petition" or a "thank you" or "adoration."
Why would any god need to be thanked? "Adoration?" ROFLMAO.
God is love... so why again would we thank God?
I don't know. According to your theory of christianity, your god knows what is in your heart without you ever saying anything. So why would you need to vocally or willfully pray/thank god?
Edited to add:
I suspect you are praying/thanking for your own personal reasons, which are selfish and have nothing to do with what your god would want or need.
That is exactly the point...
God wants to spoil us...
God knows our hearts and we must claim our rights as Christians. We have the claim slip that was granted to us 2000 years ago but we need to go to the presence of God and openly submit our claim...
Unlike you who have been talked out of you own Christian rights and the promises of God because you think it may be too "selfish" of you to claim wholeness.
God wants to bless us and it is the devil that tries to trick us into thinking that we are not God's best, that we are unworthy or that we are beings "selfish" to want God to help us with our health, prosperity and other needs that fall within his will and ability... God gives us spirit that leads to wholeness.
You prove my point by your ignorance of this that you need to learn the rare truth of the Bible that God DOES want to "spoil" us (in a good way)...
If you want to put your foot on the hose then you will surely reap what you sow.
Also, it is ludicrous to assume of a Christian that the only one that they pray for is themselves... They pray for others because of the profit they have received from God they know God's love and feel compelled to share this love with others. You talk about what you think about. You are what you eat, you become what you feed yourself upon. If you have a nice car and you think about it allot you will talk about it. If you have a thankful heart then you will talk about it an you will vocalize the love of God shown to you to others. If you have no loving God then you have nothing to talk about but selfish babble...
I will tell you I thank God for myself too and I have no qualms about it. Yet the greatest thanks are the thanks directed specifically toward God... I also thank God for things that have not yet come to pass and I thank God for the blessings that have come to fruition. This is the will of God that I am blessed... so that I may be an example of God's power and grace to others who are crying and hungering for peace with God..
I thank God for placing people into my path that I can actually help and bring to the light. They become a blessing to me and a reaffirmation of my own faith.
Every day God brings these people into my life and I am able to open their eyes to the true heart and nature of God.
Also
Frank, you can make your assumptions that God cannot be known so that you can live your ungrateful existence full of your own self pride and self proclaimed divinity.
You lean unto the seen and deny the unseen only for your own gratification... It is not honesty it is travesty.
This trains the mind in a self centered deification that is devoid of conscience or reverence for anything beyond that your own greed...
It is God that justifies charity and without God there can be no TRUE charity or compassion... without God love is only a shady deal made among thieves.
You can deny these words but they will stand in truth against you until you come to the realization that they are right and you are wrong.
I even flew without wings!
