Answered Prayers as Proof of God

[Captain Scarlet]

For instnace 4 weeks ago we had no music at our service in our new church because no one knew how to play insturments. The worship team and I prayed for God to provide someone who could play music before servicestarted. After service we had a little luncheon and we invited some of the new faces in to eat with us. One of them played guitar and volunteered without being asked to play for our services. Next week we enjoyed the guitarbut after service the worship team and I prayed that we could find someone to use the keyboard that we had. The following week's service we had a new face who spoke to Sue about wanting to play the keyboard for us. Isn't that tangible and measurable? When we prayed over my son that his pain would stop and he wouldn't have any more pain when he lost his fingernail and it happened was that psychosomatic reasoning for an 8 year old? I know it's going to get written off as coincidence or some other excuse, but yoou can't say it's immeasurable or not "real". I'm sure you'll try though.

This is evidence that god is evil; facilitating a rousing chorus of "kumbaya mi lord" or "jesus is my saviour" is cruel. C'mon this isn't objective evidence, not scientifically conducted and above all not morally serious, for all the reasons stated by commentators on this thread. You know my horoscope is sometimes right as well, is that evidence FOR astronomy.

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Well Tack you said they would and they did, sad they do not understand how God cares for the ones who want to worship Him. You guys want God to just whiske away the problems of the world,why, so you can believe, it just does not work that way. If you want results from your employer do you think its going to come because you ask him/her, or will the results come when you have shown your loyalty to said employer. May be that God is waiting on a large group of people that are loyal to Him to ask that He help people to find clean drinking water, so why don't you guys join in on the asking if you are so concerned about others. By the way what are you all doing to help those who need clean drinking water. I know that God has sent many people into the mission field to help with that very thing, maybe you guys need to go on a mission trip and see how others are doing Gods work with those who are in need. God's church provides more aide to the third world countries than you will ever know. God has said that He will work through mankind to help man, He wants us to be responsible partners with Him. We are responsible for the mess the worlds in why is it that you think God should come behind us and clean up our mess, is that what your parents did for you, I think that you guys need to see the world and its problems for what they are and quit blaming God whom you do not believe in for this mess we made.

Would you accept anecdotal evidence of unanswered prayer as evidence god doesn't exist? Clearly you wouldn't; that would be called confirmation bias. As it happens I do not accept anecdotal evidence as evidence for a gods existence or non existence. However, I do accept evidence from the double blind scientific trials conducted. They have shown there is no corrleation between the act of prayer and the outcome requested by the prayer, infact there was a slight negative correlation; where does that leave your argument?; in the toilet. Will you accept it? No probably not.