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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (7144)	3/23/2001 3:06:57 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

From the article: All supposed response to prayer can be traced to natural causes, if we only have sufficient knowledge to enable us to trace it. Christians tell us that "God knows the secrets of the heart" (Psalm xliv. 21); if this is so, why pray to him? Also, that "all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and that he (Yahuh -- ie, Jehovah) doeth according to his will among them, and none can stay his hand" (Daniel iv. 35); also, "For I the Lord change not" (Malach iii. 6). Then what can possibly be the use of prayer? If Yahuh does 'just as he likes, nothing can change him; and if he knows everything, including our wants, what is the use of pestering his throne with prayers? I think prayer is for US. It is to focus OUR desires and OUR intentions. It certainly doesn't need to be heard in the sense that my speaking to you needs to be heard by you.