(August 31, 2021 at 2:22 pm)Ten Wrote: I thought of something on my walk today.
So, have you ever heard a believer tell a story about saying a prayer and then someone shows up right when they needed and they equate this to God answering their prayer? ...how'd he do that? Does God have influence over certain people? Can he puppeteer us to bring blessings to others? What if I am close enough to help someone (not even knowing they are there yet) but I ignore whatever spiritual prompting that God is using to influence me to go answer someone's prayer for him? Does he have a roledex of people that he tries to urge into doing his bidding? And does he just try each person until he finds someone who'll listen?
I thought agency was important to Christians, so, I'm assuming it's a prompting and not just outright possession.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Simply because someone prayed and got a hoped-for result doesn’t mean that the prayer was responsible for the outcome. Since prayer more often fails than succeeds (I’m sure plenty of people in Louisiana prayed for the recent hurricane to pass them by), the obvious conclusion is that results are what they are, irrespective of prayer.
Boru
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