(May 15, 2014 at 9:34 am)alpha male Wrote: Ridiculous. The verses address hypocritical individuals.Again...Your inability to grasp that they are hypocrites precisely because they pray in public is really annoying. You are commanded not to be like the hypocrites that pray in public, yet you are still trying to justify praying in public. That is ridiculous.
Quote:Your insistence that your interpretation of these verses is the only possible correct one is really annoying. I think that Jesus knew his own intent better than you do, and he prayed in view of other men. I think Jesus' apostles were in a better position to understand his intent than you are, and they prayed in view of other men.
You took two verses and reached a wrong conclusion because you don't know the Scriptures as a whole.
What's to interpret? It says don't be a hypocrite, go pray in private. That's what it says. It won't mean something different no matter how hard you try. Words have meaning. Just admit you choose not to do what your god demands of you.
I'm pretty sure my high marks in Catechism for a decade makes me more than knowledgeable about "Scriptures as a whole".
