When you prayed did it ever work?

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I simply interpreted 'you know his will as you test it against him' to mean 'you know his will as you test his will against him'. I didn't realize that the 'it' was referring to prayer and not his will.

Anyway, I assume you know God through interpretation of the Bible. But how do you know one interpretation is more accurate than another?

You didn't use my words. See above.

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I scrutinised the biblical evidence for God long and hard. I left no stone unturned of my own issues. I was 24 and so had quite an armoury, having known very little (I now found out) about xtianity before (despite the inevitable cultural influence) . My atheistic ideas were much stronger than any religious understanding I had.

I got to a point where I trusted that information, and took the step to act on it. Having acted on it, I found it to be true to my own, now direct experience.

A caveat of xtianity is to constantly test it against other information. This I do, and I've found nothing to challenge its accuracy or validity. I can't say that there is nothing better. All I can say is that I've yet to find it.

I do find wide ranging sources that concur. The whole picture is only complete in xtianity, to the best of my knowledge.