Did They Not Pray Hard Enough

[Tonus]

Wanting what God wants for you and you asking Him for it is a prayer.

Why would I need to ask god to provide me with what he wants for me? What you are describing is that god wants something for me, knows what it is, and knows it will be beneficial for me. But he won't give it to me unless I ask?

That it is why we are charged in taking everything the bible says and create a understanding that does not conflict or contradict any of it.

2,000 years of trying and there is still no interpretation that does that, as far as I can tell. Instead, there seem to be even more denominations of Christianity. I think this speaks poorly of the Bible, that it is beyond the scope of its audience to make proper sense of it.

'Everyone else' simply understands what they can phatom based on what scripture they have exposed themselves to.

This also strikes me as a flaw in the book, that it is so easy to get the wrong understanding by reading just parts of it. Maybe I'm just picky, but I think a guide book from a supreme and wondrous creator should be so amazing that reading even just parts of it would knock our socks off, so that we'd want to read all of it over and over and learn the secrets of the universe (or whatever it is that the supreme creator wants it to tell us). Instead, we get a book that is so easy to misunderstand and misinterpret that after centuries of effort we're farther apart than ever.

The Qualifier is that one must A/S/K Not ask and seek or just ask and not seek or ask and knock and not seek.

But that's just more of what I was talking about. You have created a god that is supposed to be extremely difficult to "find." So that anyone who doesn't find him simply didn't know how to look, or wasn't persistent enough, or whatever other reasons can be used to explain why someone who made a sincere effort to find god didn't find him.

I'm just not impressed by a god that seems determined to lead people astray for reasons that I can't fathom. He seems to be toying with us out of sheer spite.