@MrGrimm888 “One aspect that I haven’t seen shared, is jealousy. Could God, not want anyone entering his presence to have more than him? I faintly recall that he doesn’t want people to worship other gods, because he is jealous. Although that’s an interesting (human) character flaw, let’s run with it. Money is power. Could someone accumulate SO much wealth, that they are as powerful, or more so, than God? I might pray to Bill Gates before some god… Gates could be like a Bond villain, and form an army, and make weapons of mass destruction. Instead, he and his wife are seemingly helping the world. If I pray to God, I probably won’t get an answer. If I send Gates an email about my strife, he might help, or donate to a foundation or charity that could help me…”
Well, no, on many levels.
God is a metaphor for all of the universe. So even on a material level, no mortal concept of owning anything amounts to jack squat compared to everything over all time, and that’s just considering the material universe.
More importantly, in a spiritual context, “the Kingdom of Heaven” is a metaphor about spiritual well-being and connectedness to everything, which transcends all material concerns, making them ultimately irrelevant.
If you pray to God based on material wish-making, you may be unlikely to get a material assist (not sure if that’s more or less likely than from a letter to a material wealth-amassing human, or not). But if you pray to a God based on an intuitive connection for wisdom and guidance, you very well may receive some very powerful wisdom from that.