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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rationalistic and mechanistic explanations will fail.  The bottom line is that we are commanded to pray and we do so because it is fitting (to God's glory) and obedient, even if it doesn't get us "what we want".  As Christ prayed to the Father, after making his request:  "Nevertheless not my will, but Yours be done".  And as Job said, "Though he slay me, I will hope in him;
yet I will argue my ways to his face."

You are right that he knows all things and therefore has no need of our prayers. [b] Yet he delights in our prayers[/b] and it is fitting to his glory that he receives them.[/quote]

Well, with all due respect, there is no way you can possibly know what God delights in. In the OT he delighted in burnt offerings, but that kinda fell by the wayside as time went on and verbal prayers seem to have taken their place. I seriously question if God ever really wanted burnt offerings.[/quote]

[b]So there's no way I can know but there is a way you can know?[/b]  I thought we were more or less talking within an Abrahamic religions framework here.  And my reference to Christ made Christian presuppositions self-evident.  If you want the conversation to be more of a dope-smoking "like, how do we even know we're not, like, in a matrix, man" then you've lost me.

Christian teaching is not that burnt offerings "fell by the wayside" but that burnt offerings were Old Testament sacrifice typology that was pointing to the final sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  Obviously Jews and Muslims will disagree with this based on their traditions, but I'm speaking from mine.[/quote]

Hey, I said I seriously doubt God delighted in burnt offerings.
The only thing I know for sure is you don't know.[/quote]

As long as you're sure  :lol:  I'm not sure by what epistemological approach you arrived at that certainty, but it must have been compelling since it's the only thing you know for sure.[/quote]

How could you possibly know what God delights in? C'mon. Get serious. There isn't any possible way you could know that - and you know it.[/quote]

I don't know that at all.  You and I differ on what constitutes a foundation for reasonable belief.  I accept certain premises and you accept others.  You seem to think there is no way you can know what God delights in.  Most people in the world disagree with you.[/quote]

Ok, just humor me. How do you know what God delights in? Did he tell you?[/quote]

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