When you pray and your prayers aren't answered no matter how much you beg...the excuse is "god knows more than us he doesn't always answer our prayers as we want him to".

Then the old saying of "God helps those who help themselves" is another thing that is just funny to me. So you can work and work and work and when you get what you've worked for, the reason was all God?? When YOU worked for it? Yet when he doesn't answer your prayers it isn't his fault? It almost seems to me people try to convince themselves there is a God to make them feel better about the fact you will inevitably die.

I've tried to believe God is there and he is helping us and all that stuff. But at the end of the day I don't know if I am just convincing myself that so I feel better, or iff I actually believe it. Its all just odd to me

Post edited at 12:18 am on Aug. 20, 2008 by Alabamarama

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Sexual innuendo.

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That would be Christianity, not religion.

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Well excuse me for not being specific enough

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That would be Christianity, not religion.

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This.

I came to your conclusion in grade school. Welcome to the world.

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Quote: from Alabamarama at 12:17 am on Aug. 20, 2008

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That would be Christianity, not religion.  
 

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Well excuse me for not being specific enough

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You are excused. I'm not entirely sure what you wanted us to post, but I wanted my point.

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Sexual innuendo.

i heard someone say once "god does answer your prayers but sometimes the answer is no." and that helped me understand things alittle better

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good point and i went though that same struggle myself and i am still struggling with it

i heard someone say once "god does answer your prayers but sometimes the answer is no." and that helped me understand things alittle better

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Well ya.. if i prayed... "let my neighbor be murdered" what kind of god would he be to say...yes.sure whatever you want son.

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I am a spiritual person but I am not religious. I believe in an afterlife but am not too sure about a God anymore. My thing is this:

When you pray and your prayers aren't answered no matter how much you beg...the excuse is "god knows more than us he doesn't always answer our prayers as we want him to".  

Then the old saying of "God helps those who help themselves" is another thing that is just funny to me. So you can work and work and work and when you get what you've worked for, the reason was all God?? When YOU worked for it? Yet when he doesn't answer your prayers it isn't his fault? It almost seems to me people try to convince themselves there is a God to make them feel better about the fact you will inevitably die.

I've tried to believe God is there and he is helping us and all that stuff. But at the end of the day I don't know if I am just convincing myself that so I feel better, or iff I actually believe it. Its all just odd to me

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Why do people always think that answering prayer means that you get exactly what you want? Prayer isn't a happy funtimes Christmas wishlist.

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That would be Christianity, not religion.

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I don't see how this couldn't apply to any monotheistic religion, but since the OP is from the US, it's clear enough, I won't be pedantic.

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Quote: from Alabamarama at 8:17 am on Aug. 20, 2008

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That would be Christianity, not religion.

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I don't see how this couldn't apply to any monotheistic religion, but since the OP is from the US, it's clear enough, I won't be pedantic.

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You're right, I'm sure it could, but they're more associated with Christianity in my experience.

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Sexual innuendo.

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When you pray and your prayers aren't answered no matter how much you beg...the excuse is "god knows more than us he doesn't always answer our prayers as we want him to".

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It almost seems to me people try to convince themselves there is a God to make them feel better about the fact you will inevitably die.

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Sure, you could find strength within yourself, without God, but God usually makes the process easier.

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"All I know, is that I know nothing." - Socrates