[xzins]

I think your logic is divorced from the reality of what hearing thousands/millions of prayers entails.

If I talk to you, and you’re 2 thousand miles away, and you hear it, then you’ve got some really cool power going on.

And if a million of us talk to you, and you’re dead and gone to your reward, then you’ve got some really god-like power going on.

I have no problem with someone saying, “I pray to the Lord to let my grandpa know I love him, and to ask him to keep praying for me.”

The omniscient one doing the receiving is the Lord, and the distribution of knowledge is from the Lord outward.

[Mad Dawg]

I have no problem with someone saying, “I pray to the Lord to let my grandpa know I love him, and to ask him to keep praying for me.”

The omniscient one doing the receiving is the Lord, and the distribution of knowledge is from the Lord outward.

NOW we're within hailing distance! (And I'm going to be late for work, darn it!) Yep, we rely on God to make the communication happen, and to make knowledge happen -- indeed to make every good thing happen.

Now I gotta go pray to Him and then feed cats and dog and clean up the corpse and do some work.

[Mad Dawg]

Can't leave without adding:
(Help, I'm a Freepaholic and my life has become unmanageable.)
"Pretty, astonishingly, amazingly powerful" still is not "all powerful". Yes, God's gifts to the Saints are amazing. They are not omnipotence. All the power that is is God's. In Him we have high hopes, VERY high hopes.