Quote from: UsernameNumber7 on Today at 02:59:43 AM

I have not really considered until now the meaning of doing in secret and your Father who is in heaven will reward you meant........Jesus was speaking about Prayer...............

With blatant open prayer to Statues it's any wonder Jesus said this teaching to his disciples about Prayer!

The Pharisees weren't even praying to Statues back then either as far as I know, they were just Praying in Public Displays like on a Street Corner except you can't just keep Driving by inside your sound dampening SUV...

Either way who are you trying to impress?

The Chi-Com AI Social Credit Score?

Well either way they gonna come smoke your ass anyway cuz they only like power...........and Jesus is their Capstone AND Millstone!

Well said. 2 things you do in secret, pray and give. There’s a good verse that. In church it says for 2-3 people to pray out loud, one at a time (for the nutty Pentecostals) and don’t use fancy words cause God is above and you are below so keep your words few. Other than public display of praying being a Pharisee practice. Add that to that idolatry.

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“Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.”

“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.“

5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.“

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Doesn’t get more black and white. Unless you don’t care for the Truth.