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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Heres a challenge.
Try to find any prayer or habit of prayer being more than 3 times in the bible.
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Every account that refers to praying three times a day. I remember Daniel. You said David, though I do not recall the reference at the moment. There are probably others.
Since they all lived more than one day, their prayers were probably too numerous to count. It was the known pattern of Daniel that got him in trouble. There is no place that indicates that their prayer for any particular thing should span only the three times in one day. Or cover only three days. Or be only 9 times or 21 times (3 times 3 or 3 times 7) or . . . .
When it comes to believing what is stated in clear words in the Bible v what might be described without any comment then making it into a rule, you seem to latch onto the latter much faster than the former. Probably some non-biblical rule that makes you slow to follow any clearly defined rule but instead seek false rules in the tea leaves. I admit that it gives the appearance of following something spiritual. But it isn't. It is just the forming of rules into bigger millstones to try to put on the lives of otherwise good Christians.