Books are good, but magazines can be a big time waster though.

I have to agree with the original poster. Usually Microsoft is criticized for taking someone else's work and adding their own proprietary elements (e.g., their own version of Java) which is incompatible with what everyone else is doing. It may not please their developer community, but it may lead to other people willing to develop for their platforms.

Please try a little harder.

I perceive that further discussions will not be fruitful. I disagree with your conclusions, but I wish you the best, and as I end my participation on this topic, I will pray (privately ;) ) that God will give you a love for his Son Jesus Christ and his best for you life. :-)

You must have my response mixed up with someone else's. I don't believe the two passages contradict one another, and I said so. Jesus was not forbidding public prayer-- he was forbidding public prayer for the sake of drawing attention to one's own piety. If Jesus was forbidding public prayer, the Church could not get together to pray corporately, as it clearly did at times in the Book of Acts. I guess we disagree on what prayer is. To me, prayer is communicating with God, whether it is giving thanks, making a request, or confessing sin. In my view, petition is an important form of prayer, but not the only one.

Why can't he? Haven't you just got through saying that right and wrong are merely people's opinions?

Godwin's Law doesn't judge the validity of a given argument, but only on the likelihood that a comparison or reference to the Nazis will be made. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

My purpose is not to debate every alleged contradiction in Scripture. My purpose was to reply to the statement that was made earlier, i.e., your implication that there is a contradiction between the passage where Jesus condemns hypocritical prayers offered for the sake of impressing others and other passages where the Church is shown praying publicly.

If a person's motives for praying are glorifying God, asking for personal needs to be met, asking for the needs of others to be met, the spreading of the Gospel, and other legitimate motives that God has approved of, there is no problem. Such things are good to proclaim.

I'm not sure how you can discern the motives of multiple millions of people have for their praying.

There is no contradiction.

Giving thanks to God using one's voice is prayer. Please see this link for a definition of prayer: http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1&nord=1#sclient=psy&hl=en&nord=1&site=webhp&source=hp&q=define%3Aprayer&aq=&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=a17560d1ef61d5f5&ion=1&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=a17560d1ef61d5f5&ion=1&biw=740&bih=515

Please also see Acts 1:14. Also, Acts 12:5. If Jesus was forbidding public prayer, the Church could never join together in corporate prayer. What Jesus was forbidding was using prayer as a means of drawing attention to oneself.

If you think Jesus was forbidding public prayer, perhaps you should read John chapter 6 where Jesus prays in public.

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