Are you sure that you really know who or what you are praying to.
For all you really know it could be the devil or it could be just someone has played a sick and cruel joke on the entire human race.
What is your opinion on this?
Please do not take this as an offensive question.I mean this with utmost respect no offence to you intended.
2007-10-18 00:20:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't think prayer does anything other than to center and re-focus the one making the prayer. If I pray, the purpose is to realign myself with what I believe to be truth--I don't really believe anyone is "listening"--or if they are, I don't think they are likely to take any action based on what 1/6,000,000,000th of the world wants.
2007-10-18 00:25:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
All anyone can humanly do is to sincerely follow the highest they
know.To seek for the truth no matter what that truth reveals. To be open to making changes when new truth is revealed.
I am lucky that I think that I find it very easy to see God in the created universe. Though I know much of it is far from perfect I am able to see much that is also beautiful. And I am eager to try and add to the beauty.
J.J. Dewey an inspired author and teacher has created a list of Principles of Discovery. The idea being that these may be used as an aid to all who seek truth and to discover the Divine for themselves. Some of these are self explanatory and some may need to be resarched a little more through the archives of his web site. www.freeread.com
The Principles of Discovery are:
(1) Take the things you know (for reasonable surety) to be true and use them as a foundation or stepping stones for testing additional truths.
(2) Be willing to let these foundation beliefs be either altered or dropped as some of them are replaced by higher vision.
(3) The teaching should be in harmony with common sense
(4) It should increase the power of Decision and free will.
(5) It should bring you to a new level of awareness and usefulness.
(6) Seek out true sources of knowledge, study and incorporate them into your life. Knowledge dispels error and illusion.
(7) Gather all the reliable information you can about a subject of interest and try and see the principles suggested by the data. Then draw conclusions and run the conclusions by your soul and see if you receive a response.
(8) Follow all the aspects of the Will of God that is within your perception and your sensitivity to the truth will increase.
(9) The Process of Elimination. Eliminate those things that are definitely not true and contemplate on that which remains.
(10) Effective Communication
(A) Communication through perception of the outside world.
(B) Person to person communication.
(C) Communication through the soul.
(11) Truth is in harmony with spiritual principles; therefore we discover that which is true through the application of those principles.
(12) The principle of planting and harvesting.
(13) "The Law of Correspondences." The principle behind it is "as above so below," and visa versa.
(14) Take that belief which is embraced by the world and look in the opposite direction. In this opposite direction much truth lies hidden.
(15) Discernment. In particular the disciple should seek the power to discern beyond physical seeing so he can see the difference in effects from the astral/emotional world and the world of the soul.
(16) Seek proven authorities and learn from them.
(17) Put your attention on finding that which is true rather than that which is in error.
(18) Faith in the "Dominating Good," or a belief that God is good.
(19) Seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened - Ask and you shall receive.
(20) Plant a seed thought in your mind and heart, and feed this thought with contemplation and meditation. Observe the fruit that comes forth, and accept that which is sweet and registers with your soul.
(21) Understand and develop the principle of intuition through which quantums of truth can be downloaded into your mind and understood by the heart.
(22) The Pendulum Principle
(23) Since the soul is the door to all true principles, the seeker must learn to recognize the higher spiritual vibrations and differentiate them from the lower.
http://www.freeread.com/archives/1072.php
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2007-10-18 01:03:25 · answer #2 · answered by Livs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The thing with faith is that it is NOT conducive to logical thought progressions.
All I can do is state categorically that I pray to my Father, to His Son and to the Holy Spirit in faith, in love, and in gratitude for all the blessings He has bestowed upon me.
I do not pretend to know the totality of the nature of God. But this much I do know. NOBODY creates anything that they do not want, do not need and do not intend to take care of unless they are being paid or forced to do it. And by definition God, being Almghty, is not forced to do anything, nor does He require a paycheck to feed the Son and the Spirit and all those angels.
Since creation self-evidently IS, therefore He does it from love of it. And His love, like everything else about Him, MUST be infinite even as He is. So there's plenty of love for me in there and I'm sure willing to return it, full measure, pressed down and running over.
2007-10-18 00:31:31 · answer #3 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Be mindful of what you think, say and do so that the reciprocal action will benefit and uplift you instead crushing you.
When you sow a grain of maize,you naturally reap a multiple of maize.This is a Law which also applies to your thougts,words and actions.
2007-10-18 00:41:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I definitely know I am praying to God. I always get a good feeling afterwards. That tells me he was there and listening to every word. I know that He will help me in any way He can.
2007-10-18 00:38:12 · answer #5 · answered by becomeblackbelt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is exactly why I do not use deity in any of my work or practice. All religions are based on old stories. I use the Quantum Field of Universal Possibilities as my personal "god."
2007-10-18 01:04:30 · answer #6 · answered by The Soap Man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the world exists without human intervention; a fetus grows by a force unknown to man; as long as we have been here what we think we know is ever changing ; so why is man's ego so large that they think that they know everything about God or not; the world was long here before us so we didn't have any hand in that ; the universe is so vast that you want to believe that with our inferior skills knows the being that created that which we can't .
2007-10-18 00:28:58 · answer #7 · answered by sml 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe in the devil because thats a Christian concept.
The whole half man - half beast with horns and hooves came from ancient Pagan sculptures of the God of Nature - Pan.
The devil is meant to represent the negative aspects of life. Thats all. The source of all energy in this universe is from one singularity, not 2. Everything came from one point of origin, and if you believe in the divine, then you believe it was the divine energy that pushed everything into existence.
Blahh..
2007-10-18 00:28:14 · answer #8 · answered by iColorz 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I am sure. When you hit the point that you are willing abandon your preconceived notions about god and accept what he tells you and commit to be bound by what he tells you by repenting then you can receive actual knowledge concerning god.
2007-10-18 00:29:17 · answer #9 · answered by halfway 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You are right in an abstract way. My mind is unable to comprehend all that God is.
2007-10-18 00:29:47 · answer #10 · answered by Ruth 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋