Does God Really Need Our Prayers?
UPDATE: I'm not writing this blog anymore, but please visit my YouTube channel The Vocabuverse and subscribe for more great things to come! Another Youtube chap came out of the wood work today with another point about prayer, once again inspired by my video from the Sermon on the Mount. He wrote: And in the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus says that prayer leads to condemnation. This text has intrigued me as an agnostic philosopher and I’ve been trying to interpret it in a logical way. In my view, if God exists, then he must be perfect and asking him to change his will, through prayer, because of human desires or emotions is insulting. If a perfect God does exist, he has no use for petty things such as worship or prayer and just wants us to live good lives, regardless of religious beliefs. Thank you my philosophical friend for your interesting input! I’m not an historian first and foremost so cannot offer a textual analysis or critique of the Gospel of Thomas. It ...