Prayer Question I Had After Sundays Watchtower...

freemindfade

While I was sitting through another grueling watchtower, dying from my brain being turned into cult pudding, I had this thought after i heard this read:

When we express our most intimate thoughts to God in prayer, he may answer us through a Bible passage, an article in a magazine, or an encouraging word from a fellow believer. -August 2015 Watchtard

So here we go.

Lets say I pray to Batman instead of the desert god, what would happen?

a. I would still find the answer in a bible passage, magazine, or fellow believer because god doesn't care that I accidentally was praying to Batman instead of the desert god?

b. I would still find the answer in a bible passage, magazine, or fellow believer because Batman in fact answered my prayer?

c. I would not find the answer in a bible passage, magazine, or fellow believer because the desert god didn't like me praying to batman, so he hid the bible verse, took it out of the magazine, or sent a text to a fellow believer to not give me any help?

d. None of the above, because this is all a waste of time because neither jehovah or batman actually exist?

StarTrekAngel

No, what did not understand is that if you pray to the wrong God, Jehovah would not compel your heart to read the right magazine or talk to the right brother who could have provided the answer...

oh no.. wait, that would be a form of bibliomancy, which is forbidden. Let me research the topic and get back to you in a future visit.

steve2

It's not unlike so-called "Angel" books: You open such a book at a random page (undoubtedly as the spirit moves you) and that page has a special message just for you at the needed moment.

We humans are so vulnerable to superstitious behaviors that bring us something needed. Prayer is little more than a collection of superstitious behaviors that has the individual supposedly believing they have communicated with a divine and invisible being who may ( or may not) give you what you ask for.

Magic.

Londo111

I am vengence. I am the night. I am Batman!

StarTrekAngel

I was being sarcastic

freemindfade

Agreed, also during the talk there was one of those experiences about how someone needed like $66 to make their rent payment (some pioneer or something) and someone tipped them exactly $66 dollars or some sh-t. And of course everyone is thinking oooooo ahhhhhh. Ok. Thats a pretty nifty coincidence. But there are literally billions of people praying for things, maybe even specific amounts of money just to get by, and nothing happens. So if you get something that seems "eerily" coincidental, guess what, thats all it is, a coincidence.

OverlappingGeneralizations

I like how it said that we could find the answer in "an article in a magazine". Which magazine? New people might not know. How fulfilled they will be when they look for answers in Cosmo!

bradford

Prayer is an interesting concept that, even as a witness, I sometimes shook my head at myself as if asking myself what in the world are you doing talking to yourself?

Some people say that there is no way their prayer wasn't answered because it was so specific and unless someone read their mind they wouldn't know what they had asked for.

Others, when they get no answer to their prayer, say that is God's way of answering. What you prayed for you need to be more patient, or it isn't according to God's will.

If you believe in prayer there are only 2 acceptable answers.

1. A direct ask by a person for x and receipt of x at some unknown time interval. Voila! Prayer works.

2. A prayer unanswered. Pray more. God must not want me to have x. I'll pray for y instead.

The 3rd option is left out entirely. Maybe you are talking to yourself and there is a thing in life called coincidence.

stan livedeath

of course batman is real--i used to watch him on the telly.

never seen god on the telly.

ToesUp

Stan. That is too funny!

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