Why Pray?

Today I came across a good question from someone, contemplating the necessity of prayer. Is prayer necessary? Does it even make sense to pray, according to the Bible. Are you wasting your time praying? 


Let us conduct a small experiment, everyone reading this text right now, say a small prayer. Specifically pray that  your internet will disconnect, and you will be forced to stop reading this post that has obviously been written by some devil child. 


Still here...?


I thought so. See folks prayer is imaginary, there is nothing real about you somehow talking to some ghost "high above". That ghost doesn't hear you, trust me. Anyways, on to the argument.


Let's assume (for the sake of debate) that all written within the Bible is correct, every last bit. Specifically for this post three things must be true:
1: There is a God.
2: He hears your prayers.
3: He answers them.  


Now back to our little experiment we conducted earlier. If you have gotten this far without your internet shutting off, then one of those three items must be false.


Either: 
1: There is no God.
2: He doesn't hear your prayer. 
3: He doesn't answer them.


Now according to the Bible, God hears and answers your prayers: 
Mark 11:24 "Therefore I tell you whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." 


Also, according to the Bible (and we all know this one) God is omniscient, meaning he knows all. 
Omniscient (Om`nis´cient) adj.

1.	Having universal knowledge; knowing all things; infinitely knowing or wise.

But something does add up! If God is omniscient, then why do I have to pray? He already knows what I'm going to pray about and he already knows the outcome of the situation I am going to pray about. It must be pointless to pray! Wait what?! Ugh.


Here's an example:
I am eating pizza right now, if I pray not to choke on this pizza and truly believe it with all my heart that God will hear this and answer this by allowing me to eat without choking, then I shouldn't choke right? If God already knew (because he's omniscient) that I wasn't going to choke then that prayer was pointless. Regardless of the prayer, I wasn't going to choke. But let's say I did choke, did God just refuse to answer me? Or maybe he doesn't care about me, or messed up. 


Folks, prayer is pointless. It will not change anything, even if all the crap in the Bible is true, God being omniscient cancels out the effect of prayer. This is a big flaw within the Bible and it brings about many issues.


I hope all of my reader's enjoyed this post.


Once again, anyone can comment. Go ahead and be the first one to start an ongoing conversation.


Until next time.. 

Daily wonders.

So I want to try and post more often, I've been failing at that lately. Anyways I'm hoping I can come up with a few questions a week. Maybe I can spark some good conversations by leaving an open question; we'll see.

Today I came across a topic on a forum that I regularly visit.

Why do you believe in Christianity?

It's an interesting question, I wonder If many Christians have ever thought about their beliefs in this way. I would hope not, any thinking man should refuse to agree with such a horrid piece of literature.

Yet I understand there are many men and women who choose to believe for whatever reason. To those of you in that category, I'd like to hear why you believe. Maybe stories of a definitive moment in life that hammered your beliefs home, so to speak.

Hopefully we see some good responses, I'd love to get insight on some of the reasons my fellow human beings believe.

As always anyone can respond in the comments. Until next time..

Horus, the son of god, The original Jesus Christ.

How many Christians actually know the answer?
What man was the son of god, born of a virgin, baptized in a river by a man who was later beheaded, tempted while alone in the desert, healed the sick, cured the blind, cast out demons, walked on water, raised a man from the dead, had 12 disciples, was then crucified and resurrected 3 days later, and known as the savior, the good shepherd, the lamb of god, the bread of life, the son of man, the word, the fisher, the winnower?


How many of you know this man is Jesus? You are correct, but this man is also Horus, son of Osiris.  Why are the two stories so similar? 


Let us look into when the stories of both these men were recorded. One was written in around 1280 B.C. The other was scribed somewhere between 50 A.D. and 150 A.D. Naturally the story written around 50A.D.-150A.D. was a mere copy of the first account. They are so extremely similar, they are almost word for word.  The difference? One story is about a man named Jesus, the other about a man named Horus. Even the names are somewhat similar. 


Other similarities about these stories; Horus had raised a man (Asar) from the dead. Just as Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead. The name Lazarus comes from the The Hebrew name....... let me guess... ASAR!!! Oh man, the craziness. 


So which story was recorded thousands of years before the other?
The story of Horus: The Son of Osiris, was recorded in The Egyptian "Book of the Dead" around 1280 B.C.  A little over 1200 years before Jesus was even a baby. Wow, good job to the men who wrote the Gospels. What an original story, mere plagiarism at that.


So even more reason to know that the Bible is really just a bunch of crap. Yup, crap.


LDagnostic

Weak faith?

For all you religious folk: Heaven is supposed to be way better than Earth right? Like there will be no suffering at all. All you need to do to get into heaven is truthfully believe that jesus is your savior and all that. How come you haven't killed yourself yet? Maybe your faith is weak? Or maybe somewhere in the back of your head you know that heaven and hell and the bible are pretty ridiculous. 


Go ahead and leave your comments below. I greatly appreciate it, and remember you can comment anonymously.


LDagnostic 

Daily Thoughts..

What happens when micro-evolution is produced in a lab? Or when we find life out there (on other worlds).  Why can't we ask questions in this world? Why do our religious leaders turn a blind shoulder to science? Why am I looked down upon for questioning religion? Am I not the same as you? After all you choose to follow one religion and reject all others. See my brother you and me are close in thought, for I only reject one more religion than you. But are you more at fault than I, for believing one is right? It is love that this world needs, not religion. How can you love me and think I am going to hell at the same time or while thinking less of me because I choose not to follow your god? 


You try and save me, what are you saving me from? There is no known hell. There is insanity, in which you are enveloped and it is very well known. Who sounds more sane? The man who knows green is green because he sees green? Or the man who thinks purple is purple because another man says so?


It is completely childish, as is the idea of Santa Clause. Yet I see no adults believing in him. Is it because there is no one in a black robe with a fancy collar holding a bible behind a pulpit telling you Santa is real? Maybe then you would believe in him. It seems you believe anything he says any way.

Vacation

To all of my follower's, reader's, and stopper by's; I will be taking a rather extended vacation, about 10 weeks.

So I am asking you to hang in there. I will continue to write on this vacation, but will have no access to a computer so I will not be posting for a while. I promise you as soon as I come back The Bible: In the Raw will be filled with tons of fresh new content, so hang in there.

You have provided me more success than I ever imagined so I'd like to say thank you. Just trust me that I'm coming back. Ha unlike Jesus, I actually will come back :)

So I guess I'll say, see you soon. Keep a look out for the end of September, this is when I will be returning from my vacation.

I was thinking you guys could leave comments on this post about what you like/ dislike about the blog and also what you would like to see more/ less of.

Thanks again,

LDagnostic

Who will burn in Hell? (Response)

Hey everyone, I wanted to share with you a reader's response to my post "Who will burn in Hell". If you have not read the post you can do that here. For those of you who have read it, I hope you enjoy the response, and please leave a comment, let me and the person who responded know how you liked it.

"Anonymous said...

My father died of cancer when I was 13. On my 14th birthday, he was buried.

He was a wonderful man. He was a Christian man that lived what he believed in a manner that I have not seen of many people calling themselves Christians. He died in a cruel, painful manner that no one deserves. This was a real eye opener for teenager.

When I started asking questions of the religious leaders he respected and that I was raised to respect from birth, I got the standard line. God works in mysterious ways. My personal favorite was that we as humans were simply unable to understand god's grand plan for us and that we must keep faith with him as he knew best. I tried to follow this advice and found I had two paths before me and I had to decide which to take.

The first path was to accept god's mysterious plan and my ignorance of my own well being and carry on, avoiding logical thinking. The second path was to ask the hard questions and based on the answers to those, make a rational and informed choice to accept or reject the faith I was raised in.

I asked the questions and I did the thinking. It was not something that happened overnight and was a 10 year process. At the end of my journey this is what I was comfortable in believing.

There is no such thing as god or heaven or hell. If these things existed, would I really want to think highly of an entity that had the power to prevent so much pain and suffering and did not use it? My father and others I loved had died and that was it. Their lives were over and we all would not meet again in paradise no matter how good I was or how deeply devout I became. There was no hell and sometimes people do not get what they deserve. There is very little justice in our world. Good people get sick and die when the world would have been better off for having them in it a little longer. Some bad people live to be 90. People get sick and they die and that is not by the will of a higher power, it is due to the imperfections of the physical body that can not heal itself from all illness.

I wouldn't worry too much about heaven and hell and where your grandfather went. Just like my father, he died and all that is left of him are the memories he left behind in the people that loved him. I have no idea why this prospect is so scary for so many. You are born, you live, you die and instead of worrying about the next life that there is absolutely no reason to believe exists, concentrate on the life you have and making the most of it. It seems our dead loved ones did that in their lives. All that is left of them is us. We should keep them alive in thought and sharing the stories of them with others. I think your grandfather would be proud of you if he was able to see this. My father would probably not agree with me but respect me for using my own mind. May they both rest in peace within us. 


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