Since “God” is not his name, I believe it is whether or not they are praying to the God of the bible, or some fantasy. If I call my wife, “wife”, I address her correctly. If I call some other personality “Wife”. I’m not.
The God of mormonism is not the one described in the bible. The God of Catholicizm, as best as I can tell, is. That said, not everything we ask for is granted. and many prayers (yes, even mine) are just plain wrong headed. You may be praying to “God”, but he ain’t listenin’.
Matthew 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.
And after all the talk in the gospels about “ask and you shall receive”, James goes and mucks it up with this:
James 4:3
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Sorry, but your 1st paragraph doesn’t make sense.
What name do you use, when you pray? Is it necessary to say, ‘Dear God of the Bible’, when praying? What happens when a Mormon says the “Our Father” or ‘Heavenly Father’?
You’ll have to explain. When you ask, how does the prayer start out? If there is only one God, how is He addressed? Does it automatically get routed? What happens when someone prays that doesn’t speak english? How is their prayer started?
How is it, that you can tell if God is listening or not?
Perhaps the Protestants created their own God unknown to their forebears.
James did not muck that up at all.
Jesus did say ask and you shall receive. Of course, this asking is supposed to be within Gods will. He probably has no interest in you wanting a nicer house.