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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Christian here and I struggle with this issue sometimes some of the pp have given decent answers

First Basic background on the why bad stuff happens to good people question

1.  God created things it was perfect
2.  Human beings messed up and sin entered the world (world no longer perfect)
3.  Bad stuff happens to all people

[b]Also God is a jealous God he wants glory and worship and honor if everything was perfect there would be no point to worship, commune need God[/b]

Now as a Christian why am I here

1.  To love God
2.  To love other people
3.  To tell other people about God

Prayer helps with all 3

1.  Prayer can be a form of worship to God
2.  Prayer can help me focus away from myself and towards the needs of others (I think practically this might be the strongest one this even goes for non-Christians)
3.  Prayer can be a form of witness to others about God

Hope this helps

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So we should pray to god because he needs the attention?  And he purposely set up the world to be cruel sometimes so his subjects would pray to him to make it better? And even then he doesn't always make it better for the people who pray to him?

He sounds like a horrid creature.
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Agreed. In this conception he sounds like an omnipotent, omniscient, eternal Trump. Pass, thanks.[/quote]

There are many different perceptions of God, so many that it's hard to know which one is accurate.  Maybe none are.  Maybe it's a matter of choosing a perception that suits you; that makes you feel better about your life and the world.  Or if the idea of God doesn't make you feel better, then you can just discard it.   Many people have and their lives are going along just as well or better than the lives of people who pray to god quite a bit.[/quote]

Yeah prosperity gospel is a crock saying things will get better if you have more faith or whatever.  The bible says the opposite this life will be challenging.  [b]Christian rewards happen after death[/b].[/quote]

How convenient.  Luckily, a lot of people receive rewards during life, as well, but not all of those people  are good christians, or Christians at all.[/quote]

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