AngelThMan Wrote:If God were to answer their prayers, God too would be participating in a scientific study which he doesn't want in the first place.Why? If God exists and cares about his creation as you claim he does why doesn't he want to show faith and prayer work? Why is he afraid of a little scrutiny from us ants when he's the big bad daddy emperor of the universe?
Quote:As a former atheist, I did plenty of prayer or other acts to test the effectiveness of prayer or the existence of God. Whenever I did this, I was not answered.Well that was totally unexpected.
Quote:Only when I've prayed with faith have my prayers been answered.So the point you're making is you prayed to your faith god for more faith because you can never have enough faith?
If a Christian is about to fall off the edge of a skyscraper and faithfully prays to his god to save his pitiful life, only to fall to his death anyway, what was that?
1. A demonstration that prayer is ineffective?
2. God never answers prayers that are a matter of urgency?
3. God is afraid of scientists confirming prayer works?
Or
4. He didn't have enough faith?
You and I both know the obvious implication faced by the first answer, the second means your god is a twat, the third renders god a coward AND a twat, and the seemingly-desirable fourth refutes your proposition that prayer + faith = magic since you've never established this arbitrary standard whether someone has "just enough faith" to make mountains move and other miracles happen.
