My Truth Regarding Prayer
So here it is, folks ... my revelation about prayer:
Praying to God is pointless.
Keep in mind, I fell into the "religion trap" several years ago. I began embracing all the doctrines because it was what everybody else did. It made me feel "accepted." I thought, If I just do everything these people do — and believe everything they believe — then they'll accept me for all my former "bad boy" ways.
So I went to church, I swayed to the songs, I listened to the delusional things church folk say, and I suspended my own good sense — in favor of the accepted "group think."
One of the things that I can no longer keep quiet about is the inconsistent nature of prayer "results."
Let's say you have a set of twins, Marshall and Drake, who are both stricken with the same terminal illness. Their genetic make-up is identical. Their parents share their story with their church and the church agrees to pray for their healing. People say things like, "We are believing God for a great healing!"
Two months later, Marshall dies.
Drake's condition starts improving, and he makes a full recovery.
How do you explain this? Did Drake have ten more people praying for his healing, so God decided to "heal" his condition?
Sorry about your luck, Marshall, but you should've been nicer to Aunt Nikki when you were at her house for Thanksgiving. That way, you could've received credit for her prayer, Uncle Monk's prayer, and your cousin Weezy's prayer. Then you may have edged-out Drake, and received some of "God's favor."
On my Facebook wall, when I present this situation to some of my friends they say things like, "The human mind can't understand God's ways," or "God's Will is what we should seek — not our own."
By what measure would God choose to save Drake's life while letting Marshall die? Is it because Drake had more prayers sent up than Marshall?
And if God's Will supersedes Individual Human Will, then praying to God to "change" his will is pointless. If you believe God's Will is the ultimate "deciding factor," then your feeble prayers won't change anything. Either you believe in Individual Human Will (Free Will) or you believe in pre-determined destiny — as dictated by God's Will.
You can't have it both ways.
Of course, you can rationalize all you want, trying to fit square pegs into circular holes — and most church folk do. The indoctrination runs so deep that the human mind is willing to suspend rational thought — and personal experience of prayers NOT working — in order to hang on to their out-dated and inconsistent belief structures.
To admit they were wrong would be the death of religions.
The death of religions would lead to the end of the fighting and killing over "which religion is 'right'."
Alas, the human species has shown, century after century, that it is willing to hang on to its differing cultural beliefs structures, even if it means pain, suffering, and violence. They'd rather hang on to their Neanderthal thought-processes, instead of evolving — like every other species on the planet does. They'd rather try to operate their new i-Phone using Alexander Graham Bell's instruction manual. (Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone in 1876.)
The human ego refuses to admit when it's wrong.
Today, I'm admitting that I was wrong.
I used to believe in praying to God. I even rationalized my own lack of prayer results, by using the following card: "It's God's Will, and God's thoughts are higher than my own, so that's why my prayer wasn't answered."
In John 14:13-14 of your local Bible, Jesus says, "And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it."
Yet how many times have loving parents, spouses, and friends asked for their loved one to be saved — following the exact instructions given in the verse above — and they're left disappointed?
Marshall dies anyway.
How many of your prayers have been left unanswered? Do the math. You might as well roll the dice.
The bottom line is this: Either every prayer is answered, every time ... or the idea of God answering prayers is an illusion created by human beings in order to make themselves feel better, and provide a false sense of hope.
Individual Human Will (Free Will) and God's Will are mutually-exclusive. The existence of one must cancel out the possibility of the other. To say they both can exist (like a lot of humans do) is impossible.
A human being cannot have free will if his "free will" is always overpowered by God's Will.
I don't believe in praying to God. I believe in Individual Human Will (Conscious Creation) combining with The Energy of Symmetry and Fruition (Ultimate Creative Intelligence) to produce systematic, natural results. That means I'm responsible for the creation of my life-experience.
If I want to create a tomato harvest, I have to take precise action to make it a reality. This means I wake up, till my garden, plant my tomato seeds, and let Nature (The Energy of Symmetry and Fruition ... or God, if you will) run its course. I can't control the weather elements. Sometimes it's going to rain — sometimes it's going to be sunny. When it doesn't rain, I can do my best to water my tomato crop by artificial means. I can play "doctor" to my tomato plants.
Praying for rain isn't going to make it rain. That's just not how the Universe works.
God (The Energy of Symmetry and Fruition or Ultimate Creative Intelligence) doesn't play favorites ... it simply brings to fruition the seeds that you plant. He simply keeps everything perfectly balanced.
He doesn't answer prayers. He doesn't have time. He's too busy "blessing" every human that sneezes.
As Dr. Carl Sagan said, "It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is, than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
Stay tuned for a future blog article, which will discuss how to influence change in people — by praying to them. It's an experiment I'm working on. =)
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Posted by Brandon Merhout aka NN at 7/15/2010 10:11 AM 
Categories: Truth, Conscious Creation, Time Management
Tags: prayer is ineffective how to pray properly praying to god is a waste of time
Categories: Truth, Conscious Creation, Time Management
Tags: prayer is ineffective how to pray properly praying to god is a waste of time
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