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RE: Prayer Studies
May 16, 2014 at 10:04 pm (This post was last modified: May 16, 2014 at 10:05 pm by Heywood.)
(May 16, 2014 at 9:39 pm)Chad32 Wrote: As much of an attention seeker as Yahweh is portrayed to be in the bible, I'm baffled that he's ever want to hide from anyone. Matthew 7:7 said ask and you will receive. If he refuses to show himself to nonbelievers, then it just makes it harder to convert them.

You test prayer by seeing how consistent it is in getting results. Just like you test everything else.

With everything else you can isolate and control variables. With prayer you cannot. You cannot guarantee God even considers the prayers genuine prayers and not artifacts of a scientific study. You cannot guarantee prayers are not offered for people in the control group. Every study I have seen suffers from these two fatal flaws.....meaning the results of the study are useless.
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Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 16, 2014 at 9:09 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Sejanus - May 16, 2014 at 9:16 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 16, 2014 at 10:18 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by dafydd - May 17, 2014 at 8:48 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Sejanus - May 17, 2014 at 9:00 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 17, 2014 at 9:21 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Chas - May 17, 2014 at 11:15 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Silver - May 16, 2014 at 9:31 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Minimalist - May 16, 2014 at 9:39 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Chad32 - May 16, 2014 at 9:39 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 16, 2014 at 10:04 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Silver - May 16, 2014 at 10:15 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 16, 2014 at 10:23 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Silver - May 16, 2014 at 10:29 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Chas - May 17, 2014 at 12:43 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Ryantology - May 16, 2014 at 11:17 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Wyrd of Gawd - May 16, 2014 at 9:42 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Losty - May 16, 2014 at 10:05 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 16, 2014 at 10:09 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Losty - May 16, 2014 at 10:27 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 16, 2014 at 10:29 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Losty - May 16, 2014 at 11:10 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Chad32 - May 16, 2014 at 10:20 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Minimalist - May 16, 2014 at 10:29 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Anomalocaris - May 17, 2014 at 12:14 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 17, 2014 at 4:20 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Esquilax - May 17, 2014 at 5:34 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 17, 2014 at 5:46 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Esquilax - May 17, 2014 at 5:57 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by jesus_wept - May 17, 2014 at 6:05 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 17, 2014 at 4:36 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Fidel_Castronaut - May 17, 2014 at 2:57 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Esquilax - May 17, 2014 at 3:51 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by max-greece - May 17, 2014 at 3:57 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by jesus_wept - May 17, 2014 at 4:35 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 17, 2014 at 4:38 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by jesus_wept - May 17, 2014 at 4:43 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 17, 2014 at 4:48 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by jesus_wept - May 17, 2014 at 4:52 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 17, 2014 at 4:57 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by jesus_wept - May 17, 2014 at 5:09 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 17, 2014 at 5:16 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by jesus_wept - May 17, 2014 at 5:36 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Chas - May 17, 2014 at 7:06 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by BlackMason - May 17, 2014 at 6:21 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 17, 2014 at 7:29 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Esquilax - May 17, 2014 at 7:49 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 17, 2014 at 8:01 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Esquilax - May 17, 2014 at 8:36 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 17, 2014 at 5:52 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Esquilax - May 18, 2014 at 2:46 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 18, 2014 at 2:22 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Esquilax - May 18, 2014 at 2:30 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 18, 2014 at 2:38 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Esquilax - May 18, 2014 at 2:45 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 18, 2014 at 2:58 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Esquilax - May 18, 2014 at 3:02 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 20, 2014 at 12:12 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Esquilax - May 21, 2014 at 12:13 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Chas - May 21, 2014 at 6:26 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Silver - May 17, 2014 at 9:43 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Bad Wolf - May 17, 2014 at 6:57 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Tonus - May 17, 2014 at 6:26 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 17, 2014 at 7:10 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by rexbeccarox - May 17, 2014 at 11:22 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Tonus - May 18, 2014 at 6:36 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by Cyberman - May 17, 2014 at 11:27 pm
Prayer Studies - by Rampant.A.I. - May 18, 2014 at 12:16 am
RE: Prayer Studies - by JesusHChrist - May 18, 2014 at 1:50 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Chad32 - May 18, 2014 at 3:26 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Elskidor - May 18, 2014 at 2:37 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - May 18, 2014 at 2:42 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by ThePinsir - May 20, 2014 at 2:29 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 20, 2014 at 3:14 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Cato - May 20, 2014 at 3:17 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Heywood - May 20, 2014 at 3:22 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by ThePinsir - May 20, 2014 at 3:27 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by RobbyPants - May 20, 2014 at 4:08 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by Tonus - May 20, 2014 at 4:12 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by jesus_wept - May 20, 2014 at 4:15 pm
RE: Prayer Studies - by archangle - May 22, 2014 at 3:18 pm

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