Christians, who do u pray too.....?

Question

....really?

(Please answer after watching the link if u really God fearing)

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v659678MsrYdPrc?recId=523022040989178643&source=similar&rank=2

Answer 1

The answer ahead of me fails to address the reality that there are many things in the bible that aren't proven like the Israelites ever being in Egipt. No record of something that spanned 400 years. No record of a Moses facing off with a pharoah, no record of Jesus coming there as an infant, no record of a Joseph interpreting dreams for any pharoah, no record of a pharoah called Abimelech ( a hebrew name and NOT Egiptian/ there were no pharoahs with hebrew names).

Belief is responsible for this ignorance because religious people usually ignore the facts.

Answer 2

I would assume, since the assertion of FACT was made so many times, that the video would adhere to the strictest of standards of investigation and presentation. It does not.

The claim the Bible is a myth is as old as the Bible. The problem is that historians have found the Bible accurate even when there was no archaeological evidence to support it when the big, unsolved question was asked. Usually the Bible is proven true archaelogically years later. Why was this left out of a video claiming it is unbias and looking for the truth???

Luke 22: 7Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. 8Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover." 9"Where do you want us to prepare for it?" they asked. 10He replied, "As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters, 11and say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?' 12He will show you a large upper room, all furnished. Make preparations there." 13They left and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover. 14When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. 15And he said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God."

This is the actual passage the video makes a big deal about. Please note that Jesus is alive and well during a time the video states Jesus to be dead. The video clearly states that this passage indicates the ushering the age of Aquarius during the next Passover....not a Passover Jesus was to be a part of. Why does someone "speaking the truth" go to such lenghts to make something say that which it doesn't?

And then there is the problem with the Bible having a genealogy. The Jewish people aren’t a myth. Nor did they magically disappear in order for this video to be created.

According to the video, Moses was upset with the golden calf because the age wasn’t Taurus, it was the age of Pisces…...Pisces was also the age that Jesus ended. According to the video, this was 2,150 years. Yet, Moses came to earth about 1536 BC. At the time he was upset about the golden calf, not bull, it would have been later than this….making Jesus’ birth about 650 AD. Let these scientists justify these numbers against the geneology in the Bible since they made the explanation of the ages to fit their theory and ignored their own internal problems.

The video explains the 12 tribes of Israel to be representations of the 12 zodiac signs. But that would necessitate the Jews today from the tribe of Judah to also be a myth. So these “myth busters” conveniently forget to explain away this huge problem and never attempt to actually present the way it really occurred. Any intelligent person watching the video would ask, “why spend so much time proving something as myth if the creators of the video actually held the truth?”

Nero used to tar Christians and use them as “lights” to light his cocktail parties as well as many widely held historical events to kill Christians. Jesus was to have died only 35 to 40 years earlier. So there were people living in Jerusalem who were alive and would be able to state Jesus was a myth. So why didn't Nero simply get a bunch of people from this city under his control and prove Jesus as being a myth?

A myth can't hold up to eyewitness accounts. So why don't these noted historians writing volumes and volumes of materials give account after account of those who lived in Jerusalem proclaiming Jesus was a lie and Nero was a good man for trying to stamp out the lie?

Here is what another historian written in this time period had to say:

Luke 1: 1Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled[a] among us, 2just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. 3Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

Here is another writing of this time period.

Rev 22:1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." 5He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."

Answer 3

Prayer is the elevation of the mind and heart to God:
+ In praise of his glory
+ In petition for some desired good
+ In thanksgiving for a good received
+ In intercession for others before God

Through prayer the Christian experiences a communion with God through Christ in the Church.

"For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy." (St. Thérèse of Lisieux)

"Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God." (St. John Damascene)

But when we pray, do we speak from the height of our pride and will, or "out of the depths" of a humble and contrite heart? (Psalm 130:1)

He who humbles himself will be exalted; humility is the foundation of prayer. Only when we humbly acknowledge that "we do not know how to pray as we ought," are we ready to receive freely the gift of prayer. "Man is a beggar before God."

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, part four: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt4sect1.htm

With love in Christ.