RE: Maybe praying did once work...
April 11, 2011 at 9:03 am
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2011 at 9:05 am by Zenith.)
(April 8, 2011 at 1:36 pm)Sarcasm Wrote: Imagine if Praying really did work except that one asshole decided to pray to God and ask him to not answer anymore prayers. Would be pretty funny imo. xD
It happens very rarely that I visit the Religion sub-forum. I've just passed here and seen this topic, thought about answering. I've read only this post (in case of any questions).
The statement "prayers work" is wrong. That's because they are not magical rituals or incantations that make supernatural things happen. A prayer means to talk to (I mean, you say, not you both talk) a person you believe he/she exists and that it is supernatural (can do supernatural things, is divine, whatever). In short words, to say something to a god/goddess, which many times means asking something from that deity.
If God (or the god, or the gods, but I'll use God here, as it is usually about God) exists, then I guess it is correct to be said that God hears one's prayers (knows what he's said), listens one's prayers (cares about what he said, not just ignores him), while God's decisions are still His own - though many times "listens his prayer" means that God decides to give help in that matter. If God exists, a prayer cannot make God be the subject of man (or, in other words, cannot make God be the servant of man). There can be no "prayers work" or "prayers don't work" thing.
