(January 10, 2014 at 11:24 am)Chad32 Wrote: You mean if you pray for something, and something good comes of it, it's prayer, but if nothing good happens, it's a petition? But both are made the same way. You're asking the invisible man to do something for you. This sounds like the no true scotsman's fallacy. It wasn't a true prayer unless something good happened.
no.
Prayer (per the only example of prayer we are given by Christ) is Acknoweledging God's power and authority, Asking God's will to rule our lives/for his want and will to come first, Asking for our basic needs, Asking for giveness of our sin if we can for give others, and to keep us from evil.
Everything else is considered petition.
