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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please get yourself a more sophisticated theology than you are expressing here.

God isn't magic and you suffer from a lack of imagination.[/quote]

However the problem is that Jesus asks you to be like a child. Jesus is not interesting in "more sophisticated theology"
because this is where the problems begin. If you ask me the problem is with the sophisticated theology.
When Jesus came to this Earth the Laws of the God and the theology was so evolved that it was in the way of pure connection to God. Jesus came and he actually flipped it and started over. Then amazingly enough the more sophisticated theology again took over his teaching and made everything so sophisticated and so convoluted and so complicated
then the simple act of connecting to God - a prayer can not be discussed between random people without
following some rules and dogmas of catechism and sophistication.

Is a prayer a meditation to improve self, is a prayer search for truth, is a prayer request for gain, is a prayer a worship of divine superpower and submission to it's grandeur, one without want or need but pure love?

You tell me? That is all I want to know. I think most people who are religious are so because of the upbringing, and as such they have imposed ways of prayers and understanding of prayer. Maybe there is more to it? Who is to say?
Not me, I just asked question. Maybe God wants to be loved through prayer and not asked as he already knows what we need but it seems that most people are afraid to risk trusting God and need to tell him what they need because they think that God is a little minded being not superior being who needs to be told and begged. So my question is again:
can people pray to worship god and through love but not to ask for anything. This is pretty big trust and love right there.
Right?[/quote]

Your post is not well written but your apparent ultimate point, that you should pray only for “love” is misguided.

Prayer is your communication with God and it is perfectly legitimate to ask for help, to ask for guidance, to ask for something you feel that you need. [/quote]

Aha.. yeah, well written.. kicking the ball in a tall grass again? 
I am not saying to pray for love, I am saying to express love to God through prayer. 
I am saying.. and you can rewrite it to your needs:

God is great, god is god, god is loving, god is almighty. People pray to God like he is none of that,
people pray to God like he is none of that. I believe prayer is a connection go God to acknowledge your 
love of him and his existence  and his might and this is where prayer ends. If you have to pray for anything else  you
are saying God is not neither good, nor almighty and does not know you as you hope he does.

Aside from that other type of prayer that people think is a prayer but it is a meditation to search for self.
Self is there all this time and searching for self and help from within.. God instilled it you you too so why pray for that?

So all the rest, why people pray the way they pray? Is it love of god, fear of god or "just in case".
Or is it just pure training.. years of training.. and I am afraid so.

I feel that most people are afraid to trust God in prayer. They are trained to love God through fear not love.
Maybe it is one and the same thing.. maybe it is not. I guess the more sophisticated the mind, the more God expects from you. That's all. Isn't it what God said in a way? 
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