A genuine question to all the Christians on here ?!

All those people quoted weren't Christians. They were all of the Jewish faith. Christians do it different, it seems....

Some churches still kneel. Have no idea how indvidual folks pray some might fall on face?
I think we take it more symbolically than literally.

Because they’re weak

Christians tended to live in muddier areas, so a full face plant wasn't practical.

Mom said if I get the knees of my church pants dirty she'll paint my butt black and blue. 🤷🏼Let God tell her otherwise.

Interesting ... never gave thought to them being different ... they seemed the same to me

But I see what you are observing

And it is interesting

Over time will pay attention and see if there is a rationale

I didnt know about these quotes on the bible. But it makes a lot of sense. In catholic church we have parts were we stand, sit or kneel. It's like a choreographed slow dance. But never did I learn anything other than kneeling to pray

Because we pray that way at home. At least, I do.

I do. At home, alone.

I'm Irish and I'm Catholic, Christian people in America always seem so radical 😊😊

Both Christianity and Islam were created by the same parent religion to sew the very confusion highlighted here

I get drunk and fall on my face all the time. Only God knows if I was praying, because I sure as hell don't remember. 😆🤣😳😉🤫

I respect all faiths. But simply talk to God for He is bigger than any bully bigger than me.

They have a standing sitting kneeling and shaking hands with people who have colds and flu. I’ll be damned if I’m gonna put my forehead on the floor too.

I don't know the Answer. I have a question though. Why can’t Muslim men and women pray together?

Do you think that God doesn’t hear our prayers because we pray differently?

allah and Yahweh are not the same. The Jewish Christian God's name is Yahweh/Jesus. The muslim god is allah.

This is a very good observation.

But are those Biblical quotes instructions on how to pray or simply certain examples of prayer? In other parts of the Bible, various figures are said to have "knelt to pray" (and there is nothing said about falling on one's face).

Did someone give you these verses to show that Christians are wrong? Have you actually read the bible? Because you've left out lots of examples of different positions:
[b]Sitting [/b]– I Chronicles 17: 16-27
[b]Kneeling[/b] – I Kings 8:54, Ezra 9:5, Luke 22:41, Acts 9:40
[b]Bowing[/b] – Exodus 34:8, Psalm 72:11, Nehemiah 8:6
[b]Standing[/b] – Nehemiah 9:5, Mark 11:25, Luke 18:13
[b]Uplifted hands[/b] – 2 Chronicles 6:12, 13, I Timothy 2:8
[b]Walking[/b] – 2 Kings 4:35
[b]Prostrate[/b] – Joshua 7:6, Ezra 10:1, Matthew 26:39, Mark 14:35

Seems like most of the answers you have received people haven't actually read it either. ;)

Love and peace to you.

Christian traditions did not transfer well from East to West, and Christians also do not have a prescribed routine for prayers, as Muslims do (5 times per day, facing Mecca, and using specific head movements and standing, kneeling positions).

The choreography is copied from certain Jewish practices.

Eastern Christians, especially the traditionalists, will kneel and touch their forehead to the ground, as they approach the Pulpit.

When Christianity spread to the West, During Constantine's time, anything related to Jewish practices was purged from Christianity. However, you should try to find information about The Rite of Ordination, or when someone becomes a Priest. Not only do they touch their forehead to the Pulpit, they also flat on their stomachs, for a good part of the ceremony.

Christians in the United States and Canada, include a majority of Evangelicals and born-again Christians who write their own rules, when it comes to prayer.

I will remind you that Jesus was not Christian, he was Jewish, and there is no proof he intended to invent a new religion. His followers, and their followers, created Christianity, and one of the toughest decisions they had to make, was whether uncircumcised people can be Christian.

Mostly though, and in general, Christianity preaches that prayer is not about "ceremony", but more about a personal conversation with God, that can be performed whichever way the individual feels. As in, God is not expecting parade, more like an intimate conversation.

This is an observation on my part, although I am Atheist, I was born to a Catholic religious father and a Jewish agnostic mother.

I'm a Christian by birth and raised in the faith but don't practice anymore. Christian in a few words are lazy and hypocrites for the most part. They pick and choose what they want from the bible and ignore the rest unfortunately. a True believe only needs to focus on Jesus' simple teachings of Love one another as Jesus has loved you, and do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You follow those 2 teaching and you will be a good person. The rest is all meaningless

You have a lot of people responding that probably don’t currently pray. I can help you with the idea of prostration if you like,
I pray to God.

Used to be a Catholic & they did teach us prostrated prayer as a footnote, said Christians didn't do it much but I forget the exact reason. Might've been having to do with the fact that prostrated is meant to be deeply humbling, and Christians see themselves as children of God -- which is kinda not a humbling position.

Physical actions can be faked..

God who knows all things,, He knows if the one praying to Him is genuine in their communications with him or is putting on a show to attain social approval from people viewing their physical or verbal display.. Jesus said in the Bible..

[b]Matthew 6: KJV[/b]
5 "¶ And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. {6} [b]But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly[/b]."

So Jesus taught that we should never make our prayers a public performance trying to seek the approval of other men.. But we should pray to Him out of sight of others privately. The person engaging in a one on one communication with God directly in secret is not doing it to gain social approval or status within their religious community.. They are doing it because they genuinely want to talk to God directly about things they are genuinely concerned about..