Evidence for Believing

[possibletarian]

People obeying the scripture and praying for the sick, and no discernible results distinct from not praying are incompatible too.

Yes, as I said earlier, I think that prayers for what we personally want -- fulfilled or not -- tell us nothing at all about what a God would do. Christians who expect their desires to be fulfilled are at the Santa Claus level of theology.

But what they do tell is the quality or truthfulness of the promise to answer prayer.

Prayer by necessity is for what you personally want (even if you do apply some spooky driven motivation). While people may at times pray for what could be seen as a personal disadvantage they are still praying for what they personally want, perhaps the sovereignty of a what they think is a higher power whose submission to may advantage them ultimately.

If it looks and acts like it's made up....