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My mom has a list of prayers that she claims were answered by God. As I look at that list I noticed that I did most of those things. When I mention that she says, God works through people. If I have to do all the work what do I need God for?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Does she think that her prayers are changing God's plan or will? If not, then why is she wasting the time when it's already going to happen.

But since she knows that it's you doing the work, that suggests she thinks that people are inherently evil and can't possibly do good things without some higher influence. That's a harder one to address, especially when it's family. I'm just glad that believers have someone in their head guiding them to do good things, otherwise we'd really be in a mess. /s partially

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah I don't get it. My mom calls up her prayer warriors and starts praying for things. And yet God is omniscient and all seeing why do you have to pray? And when something good happens, is a prayer answered from God. If something bad happens then it's just the will of God. And humans can't understand the mind of God. It's like a big circle jerk.