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Indeed.
That is why we read about the Elders that throw their crowns before the throne. There are five crowns: they are the imperishable crown, the crown of rejoicing, the crown of righteousness, the crown of glory, and the crown of life. Rev4 "10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."
The problem is in knowing how to pray. People think God can do anything, but He has to remain faithful to Himself. He is who He is and one thing is for sure, we did not invent Him. We do not control and manipulate Him. WE have to learn what is His will for us to have, then we can pray according to His will for us. It stands to reason that He is willing to give us what He wants to give us.
That was exactly my point. The world is filled with injustice and immorality. The question is: What is God doing about it. Your answer is that no one is doing anything about it. As they say your either a part of the problem or a part of the cure, but you can not be both. You can not play on both sides of the track, you have to choose one or the other.
Again, it is the highest form of literature because it speaks to the whole person. As an intuitive, it is definitely more helpful for me in understanding than well reasoned prose. I reason slightly better than average, but it's just not my best suit. I find reasoning to be boring, stiff, colorless, and one dimensional. I simply can't relate to it. I reason when necessary (and have great difficulty tolerating others who reason badly). I'm staring at my library, and only about 1/5 of the books are prose.
-_- highest form of literature in your opinion. I find the constant vagueness in regards to important concepts in the bible to be not only frustrating, but morally objectionable since the book is supposed to be "a guide to salvation". Sure, I don't enjoy reading the manual that tells me how to put together the table I ordered, but I certainly appreciate it the more concise and clear it is.
No specific who most of the time, just a generalized prayer to anything willing to listen. Any religion that advocates some sort of prayer suggests that deities or representatives of them will notice. Even though I don't believe they exist, I see no reason not to try to attract their attention so that they can prove me wrong.
Intuition is a source of error. Everyone interprets the bible a little differently, thanks in part to its vagueness. This is an unacceptable flaw that has lead to an enormous amount of infighting amongst Christians.
And we have scientists to thank for driving wedges between everything, don't we?
A person can intuit incorrectly. A person can reason incorrectly as well. It drives me nuts when people reason badly. But bad intuition cannot be blamed on intuition as it is supposed to be, just as bad reasoning cannot be blamed on reasoning as it is supposed to be.
No, pretty sure there was infighting long before scientific findings conflicted with the bible. Lutheranism, the conflict between the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches... they come to mind.
