why do christians put their palms together when praying?

Answer 1

Not all of them do. It's a sign of submission and reverence.
Some lift their hands up when they pray.
Some kneel and others prostrate themselves on the floor.
Some carry on conversations with God throughout the day, while doing other things.
The important thing is to focus on God and His answers.

Answer 2

It's not any blanket rule. Sometimes I pray with my arms outstretched. Sometimes I pray with my hand folded. I can't remember a single time when I prayed with my palms together. It's a bit awkward.

Prayer is not about where your hands are, it's about where your heart and spirit are.

Answer 3

Some Christians don't study their Bible. They get that from many painting and from the Catholic Church. Acts 17: 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

Answer 4

It's not the palms together, its the hands together facing upwards, to signify that you are speaking to God or trying to make contact to heaven.

Answer 5

Not all do.
It is not necessary.
Some do it out of tradition.
It supposedly means earnestness, sincerity ...like the wrenching of the hands when someone has a bad conscience.
It actually means nothing.

Answer 6

The gesture itself is much older, it appears in buddhist illustrations over 4000 years old and on mesopotamian statues.

Answer 7

I don't, I talk to God the same as to you. My Heavenly Father hears every thing I say, no mater where I am ,or what position I am in.

Answer 8

It's the hands point toward heaven.

Answer 9

Jesus showed us how to pray during his life. Thats how we continue to do it today.

Answer 10

It does not matter what you pray in. It matters what your attitude is. What your praying for and if you trully believe in what you are praying for.