lopjohnny:
Closing of the eyes while praying, does it really matter or is it even biblical that you must close your eyes when praying

Freedom4us:
Nope it just helps concentration.

it's not a requriement

chivic:
When you close your eyes most times, you concentrate more,but when you open your eyes,you could easily be distracted.Even voodoo and other secret society close eye,in other to concentrate Beyer.
However,irs not a command in the Bible

wah bouh muslims

tripplephi:


There is no scripture to this effect of closing eyes... Just like there is no scripture for kneeling down or wearing scarf to pray... Hence if you can stay FOCUSED with your eyes open then pray that way... The main point is prayer must be without ceasing. Bless ya

[b]lol... You sure abouh that??


For the first part, do you mean there's no scripture that commands us to kneel or kneeling at all was never supported by the scriptures


For the second part, unless of course if you're talking specifically about scarf and not just covering of hair






Now here's my take,

It is obvious that we blacks have taken religion more seriously and deeper than the people who even brought it to us

We have become religious extremists which birthed a whole lot of funny "mandatory" practices when the whites have almost forgotten about what they even brought to us (funny enough, they're even doing better than us in every ramification).


Well, how you choose to pray or serve your GOD is simply at your own discretion so long as it doesn't go contrary to what is in the Bible


I keep telling people my faith is based on my understanding of the Bible (of course I could pick a thing or two from religious leaders) but never on my denomination because in the end, GOD doesn't recognise the church you attended![/b]