(October 19, 2018 at 10:54 am)Drich Wrote: Again as in my first post.... The two words paul used in the koine greek define prayer as to what it is and what supplication or petitioning is. The directive you seek may not be found in your english understanding of the translative word but in the nature of the greek the word prayer is that of a formal prayer offer to God. to this point in the whole of scripture there is only one example of such a prayer and that is the one Jesus taught in luke 11.
So, the reason most Christians are praying wrong is because they don't speak ancient Greek, and Almighty God isn't a good enough communicator to get the idea across?
I'm going to be honest: I don't care enough about this topic to learn ancient Greek well enough to see if I agree with your assessment on this. The vast majority of Christians do ask God for stuff when they pray, and that's what my thread is addressing. I don't really care if 90% of Christians are "correct" or not.
So, maybe your claim about me just not knowing the right language is true, and maybe it's not. Sadly, it being true hinges on Almighty God letting this One True translation die along with the ancient Greek speakers, only to be picked up by a rare handful of scholars who know the True meaning.
