We consider prayer to be supplemental not fundamental. We run from the very things that would make us.

What we are before God we are, and nothing else.

One ship sails east and one ship sails west

By the selfsame winds that blows

But it is the set of the sails and not the gales

That determines which way they go.

Satan's great victory in the Garden of Eden was the introduction of the proposition that God's Word is subject to the evaluation of Man.

People have used the exact Bible Code methods to make precisely the same kind of "prophecies" out of Moby Dick.

All Scripture points ultimately to Christ.