Intercessory prayer is pointless

[RobbyPants]

Your phrase "God causes/allows problem because it benefits you to ask him to fix it" is way to simplistic.

Then elaborate.

Also, that line of thinking would not work on most of the world who do not ask him anything when they have problems.

You must know very different Christians than me. I've listened to them casually talk about wanting all sorts of favors. That being said, every church I've ever attended had a weekly deal where they'd list issues for a whole bunch of congregants and their families, and specifically ask God to intercede. Straight up.

Even if some huge percentage of them don't ask, it still has nothing to do with the ones that do, which is the topic of this thread. Stop trying to change the subject.

It would seem that it is more likely that there are problems in the world because of nature, evil choices of people, willful disregard of consequences, unintended consequences of choices, and bad luck. You can trace every problem all the way back to the beginning of the universe if you had enough information.

Another dodge. I'm honestly not interested on why you think it's the universe's fault when a fetus is born with Tay Sachs.

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The K-T event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 M years ago; did God cause and/or will that event to occur?

It can apparently be traced back to some bad decision the dinosaurs made.