Many people pray to God. However not all of them are saved.
But is this so? What should we be praying to?
Dr. Brantly said it eloquently: “I prayed that God would help me to be faithful even in my illness, and I prayed that in my life or in my death, He would be glorified”.
In life AND death he said. And this is indeed the proper way to pray.
Why pray to save your material life on this Earth? After all is it not Christianism who says over and over again that material life is nothing compared to your spiritual salvation?
The Lord said it after all: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in disease”. (Ἀρκεῖ σοι ἡ χάρις μου· ἡ γὰρ δύναμις ἐν ἀσθενείᾳ τελειοῦται)
See beyond what is in front of your eyes and you will see the world…
Choose to die and you will earn eternal life…
It seems that you have asked several questions at once; “What should we pray about?” - did you mean “for”? “What should we be praying to?”
“Why pray to save your material life on this Earth?”
“What do you think?”
And it is “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect indis-ease” (not what we think of with the word “disease”).
What I think is that one “should” understand what it means to “pray” before addressing those questions. And then the more relevant questions are “how to pray” and “for what to pray”.
That would be a “how to”.
“Pray to” means to “seek of” (much like “prey on” means to “seek after”).
How one prays to depends upon to what one is praying, seeking of.
To know how to pray one must know to what one is praying.
To pray to God, one must now about God (not merely that there might be one).
To pray to a government is to file a law suit.
To pray to a dictionary is to read it.
To pray to a doctor is to consult with him.
To pray to socialism is to watch TV.
But to actually pray to God is to seek of specifically what?
What do you even mean by that?
Is rationality the ultimate goal for you?
Is Logic the ultimate tool?
Because even it’s creator, Aristotle, wasn’t sure as to what it was useful for…
The world is inherently irrational.
Our very existence is inherently irrational…
What seems irrational to you is merely a reflection of your own ignorance and presumption. Reality itself has nothing at all irrational about it. Reality is what determines what is or isn’t rational. Logic is the foundation of thought, even on the intuitive, instinctual, and physiological levels. You just don’t understand those processes.
So yes, Rationality is “an ultimate goal” because by definition it is the process of accomplishing your goals. And I very seriously doubt that Aristotle didn’t know what logic was to be used for. Aristotle and Moses were saying the exact same thing, Aristotle was just more precise about it and didn’t involve the more ancient concepts from the Hebrews.
If you aren’t being rational, you are being irrational - “not accomplishing your own goals”.
The word “Sin” actually means the same as “irrational” - “missing the mark”.
It’s okay. I’m not sure how you placed it. I experimented with the image and everything that I tried always resulted in scroll bars around the image. Those scroll bars are missing when I look at your post.
You define rationality as something having to do with reality. And yet rational is a term we humans invented.
The world is as it is. Reality is what it is. Mostly subjective.
And this has nothing to do with Logic as Aristotle created it.
Most things in the world make no sense at all, if you analyze them with the strict human logic filter.
That being said, I am not sure I understand what your argument is regarding the things we should be praying about.
Should we just not pray because the cosmos and the reality is rational?
Or should we try to affect this cosmos by any means we have?
We invented the term “reality” too. Interestingly, I can’t think of a single word or term that Man didn’t invent.
It is what it is, and not at all subjective. Subjectivity is the bias and prejudice of a person’s presumptions (sins), not of objective, sinless Reality.
They wouldn’t if you didn’t know how to do it, just like most mathematics wouldn’t give you the right answer - if you didn’t know how to use it.
The reason to “pray” is because reality is actually rational. If it were truly not, praying would be pointless.
To “pray” MEANS to humbly “seek of" and "attend to”. What would be the point in seeking of and attending to the irrational? One can be irrational without having to study how to get it done. One prays to the rational so as to be rational, to be without sin.
And that is the point, to be without sin and affect the universe ONLY in truly rational (wise) ways.
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