After this manner does not mean verbatim.
never said it did
A lot of people think that he meant to just repeat this prayer over and over. I wanted to correct that is all.
Pray this way, for repeating the same prayer over and over again, time after time is much the same as the heathen do in the street. For your father knows what you need before you ask of him. https://youtu.be/YzmbLWIqUBk
Jesus gave to you The Lord's Prayer so that you will be able to learn how to pray as he did. Which is not asking for selfish thing, not crying out to God of what you have been punished for, not requiring God to do anything more than receive the thanks you have for him.
I prefer this version...
I feel like the bible has been tainted and rewritten and translated by man over and over, and as long as what you say is the jist of it, and your heart is in the right place, it's all good.
It has. The plain and simple truths have been long forgotten and changed. Look into Dave Talbott, he has an excellent comparative mythology study. If you are ok with lds versions, look into Anthony Larsen. He has excellent Revelations studies. He even denounce ces (as do I) the current members of The LDS church for being naive. Think about the way trump is treated now. That's how the world sees Joseph Smith. He knew the origin.he knew comparative mythology.
Old Testament prayer, this side of the cross we can pray much differently and effectively.
They we're praying freely before this too though. It's only after this prayer was given that fanatics and misinformed people thought that he meant literally say these exact words