Continued from
the earlier post -
[Mathew,
Prayer: 6:5-15]
6:5
“And when you pray,
do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the
synagogues (here Church) and on the street corners to be seen by
others. Truly, I tell you, they never received their reward in full.
[Jesus was against hypocrisy of priesthood. Jew priests hated him for
that.]
6:6
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.
[Here
Jesus says your Father in heaven can see what is done in secret and
that means giving
confession to him is not necessary nevertheless, confession is
recommended to bring awareness in your mind that what you did was
wrong. even so, if you deserve a punishment for what you did, that
will come to you anyways. Confession does not spare you of that.
Confession is actually the process of admission to God directly and
not through any agency such as Church. By such confession, one is
expected to, not repeat that mistake again in future but if he
repeats that again then, that confession is rendered null and void.]
[Confession
was made compulsory in Christian practice of Church during
Inquisition by Pope Innocent IV (1252) to root our heretics who were
opposing Church in Europe; even though most of them were true
followers of Jesus' ideology. Followers were tortured to death
occasionally to get truth about other hiding heretics, out of them.
That practice continued further in all Churches to protect its
authority from infidels. Here infidel means those who oppose
authority of Church even if they are true followers that did not make
any difference and they were either tortured to punish them or
excommunicated. In later period, this practice came handy as a tool
to black mail people to yield them for the demands of Church whatever
they are, particularly during crusades nobles were made to accept
terms of Pope by this confession information.]
6:7
And when you pray do
not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard
because of their many words.
6:8
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before
you ask him.
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