[Colofornian]

Whatever made you think that I thought they were not prayers anyway?

I have dozens of books on Christian prayer. Shall I go thru & cite page & author as to how many of them cite "prayers" of the Bible -- including prayers of Psalmists -- as "prototypical" (model) prayers for people to either recite or paraphrase as their own prayers lifted up to God?

In a world where people commonly use the Lord's Prayer as our own prayer as well, why did you seemingly assume in post #910 that a psalmist prototypical prayer would not be recited as somebody's OWN prayer?

[presently no screen name]

What part of ‘speaking with their lips’ but ‘their heart is far from Me’ and ‘their prayers/praise are in VAIN’ don’t you get?

[CynicalBear]

>> why did you seemingly assume in post #910 that a psalmist prototypical prayer would not be recited as somebody's OWN prayer? <<

I did no such thing. If that is what you got from that it was a misunderstanding on your part. It certainly was not what I wrote nor what I meant. Seems to be a trend.