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Vi kan jo fortsette kristendomstimen... Siden vi nå var inne på Bønn, og fader vår.

I den kristne tradisjonen, og de offisielle oversettelsene er fadervår en oppramsing som vi alle har pugget, og kan framføre på rams. Men bønnen kan også sees på andre måter. Spesielt om en ser på andre oversettelser.

Jeg ser på Fader Vår, og på all bønn, som en serie affirmasjoner.

Her følger et utdrag fra en bok jeg har på datan, gi meg en lyd så deler jeg gjerne!

Fra Charles Fillmore's - "Teach us to Pray": When Jesus' disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray He warned them against making a display of their praying in order to be seen of men. They should retire to their "inner chamber" and pray to the Father who sees in secret and rewards openly. Then He said, "After this manner therefore pray." The Lord's Prayer was given as a sample: not to be followed literally. It is a petition according to the American revision; but according to Fenton's translation it is a series of affirmations, as follows: "Our Father in the Heavens; Your Name must be being hallowed; "Your kingdom must be being restored; "Your will must be being done, both in Heaven and upon the Earth. "Give us to-day our to-morrow's bread; "And forgive us our faults, as we forgive those offending us, for You would not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from its evil." As in all matters where we seek divine help we are free to use any words we choose or no words at all. "Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed." Prayer in man is a conscious expression of the upward trend of nature found everywhere. So every impulse or desire of the soul for life, love, light, is a prayer. Eliphaz repeated a prayer formula when he said, "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee." Jesus put the same idea in these words: "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do." All growth and unfoldment from atom to sun is based upon this law of soul urge. What you earnestly desire and persistently affirm will be yours, if you "faint not." When we frame our desires in sound words and place them before our indwelling Lord, we are using intelligently the supreme law of God in bringing into manifestation that which He has implanted in us. A prayer without desire in it, a prayer without sincerity in it, a prayer without soul in it, a prayer without Spirit in it is a fruitless prayer.