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From: daveh@tekcrl.labs.tek.com (David Hatcher)
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Subject: Re: Praying to foreign gods is not the same as praying to Almighty God
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Date: 27 Sep 90 07:18:59 GMT
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In article <Sep.23.03.31.59.1990.5621@athos.rutgers.edu> timh@linus.uucp (Tim Hoogasian) writes:
>                                      However, both groups did not spend
>time in prayer to the *same* Being.                                                  

  How do you know that *while in payer* you are not praying to
  the same Being? What's going on with in a person who is opening
  their soul while in prayer anyway? Personally, I feel that meaningful 
  prayer comes from a place that is much deeper than what theology 
  defines OR from what we believe. It comes from our soul. Not from 
  our outer thoughts. So in moving past those outer thoughts and to
  that place where we are looking *at* the soul as it is opened to God 
  in prayer, what is the soul really pointing towards? Is it *really*
  God? How do you know? Just because someone says that it is Jesus
  that they are pointing towards, how do you *really* know? And how
  is this prayer known and experienced differently than from what other
  spiritual paths may know or experience. 


  And since you feel that we are not praying to the same Being, 
  to whom AM I praying? What IS with in my heart as I open my soul
  to my Beloved God?


	David Hatcher