God's reactions to your prayer already happened before you were born. His plan(aka fate) is already tailored around all the choices you will make since he already knows that.
As for how I know that "if" doesn't exist in an omniscient mind, because the contrary is impossible. If "if" existed in the omniscient mind, then it has ignorance of a future, which means it wouldn't be omniscient. Why is it so hard for you guys to get this?
Prayer is arrogance ultimately. The greatest proof against it is when it goes unanswered. God's will happens regardless. I'm talking about fate itself, not your free will actions.
For example, praying for Trump's safety let's say. God has already decided in accordance with his nature and plan whether he will protect Trump or not, just like how he decided to NOT protect JFK despite all the millions who prayed for his safety back then I'm sure. God's decision to protect Trump happened before the universe was made. Many prayed for Trump to die(yes, these kinds of Christians exist too), many didn't pray for Trump at all. Trump can only be safe or not safe, therefore one of these things was going to happen, so one "side" of the prayer of war was going to "win" inevitably. God decided to protect Trump before time even existed, before any prayer for Trump's protection was done.
It's like asking someone who has 100% made up his mind on what he's going to do to do something. You don't know what he's going to do, but you do know he has already made his decision. You asking him to do this or that isn't a factor in whether he made that decision or not since he made that decision before you asked him.
If it really was prayer, then every time people pray for a good thing it would happen, yet that's not how reality works.
It's all already written, with your choices in mind. You, a timebound being, did NOT change God's eternal, timeless mind. It requires strong ignorance and pride to think otherwise.
As for embodying God's nature... 99% of people, let alone Christians, fail at that miserably. For one, God is self-aware, Christians/Muslims/Jews are the least self-aware people alive, especially the fundamentalist ones.
God's reactions to your prayer already happened before you were born. His plan(aka fate) is already tailored around all the choices you will make since he already knows that.
As for how I know that "if" doesn't exist in an omniscient mind, because the contrary is impossible. If "if" existed in the omniscient mind, then it has ignorance of a future, which means it wouldn't be omniscient. Why is it so hard for you guys to get this?
Prayer is arrogance ultimately. The greatest proof against it is when it goes unanswered. God's will happens regardless. I'm talking about fate itself, not your free will actions.
For example, praying for Trump's safety let's say. God has already decided in accordance with his nature and plan whether he will protect Trump or not, just like how he decided to NOT protect JFK despite all the millions who prayed for his safety back then I'm sure. God's decision to protect Trump happened before the universe was made. Many prayed for Trump to die(yes, these kinds of Christians exist too), many didn't pray for Trump at all. Trump can only be safe or not safe, therefore one of these things was going to happen, so one "side" of the prayer of war was going to "win" inevitably. God decided to protect Trump before time even existed.
If it really was prayer, then every time people pray for a good thing it would happen, yet that's not how reality works.
It's all already written, with your choices in mind. You, a timebound being, did NOT change God's eternal, timeless mind. It requires strong ignorance and pride to think otherwise.
As for embodying God's nature... 99% of people, let alone Christians, fail at that miserably. For one, God is self-aware, Christians/Muslims/Jews are the least self-aware people alive, especially the fundamentalist ones.