Prayer doesn't work like yes, no or wait (... I liked the video btw), IMO. In my experience, when my prayers are selfless, my aim is righteous and I am at peace with God I"ve never (to my knowledge) not had a prayer answered. There were some studies done where the people's prayers were given a goal and it failed. It has also been suggested that praying for someone to regrow their arm woudn't work. I'm not goingto say those prayers weren't "the right prayer". I will say that praying for something that breaks the known laws of physics I don't think is answerable because I think for God to affect our world, he does it in ways that are within our grasp of comprehension. I'd be happy for God to prove me wrong though. Anyways, back to the point, how god has answered my prayers. Sometimes the answer comes in his time (hence the wait), sometimes they're immediate (hence the yes), I've not eperienced a no yet (hence the belief that God answers prayer). Reasons I think it's extraneous to myself:
1- Some things can be explained by positive thinking, if the people I was praying for knew I was praying for them, but they didn't
2- Some answers to question could have come from my subconscious, had I any knowledge about the subject, which I didn't
3- Some chance happenings could be attributed to chance, were the causal chains leading to it not so outside probability and synchonous
4- some urges to say certain things or go certain places I'd consider subconsciously motivated, were they not against my nature and internal desires.
I'm sure that's plenty to stir up a conversation.
1- Some things can be explained by positive thinking, if the people I was praying for knew I was praying for them, but they didn't
2- Some answers to question could have come from my subconscious, had I any knowledge about the subject, which I didn't
3- Some chance happenings could be attributed to chance, were the causal chains leading to it not so outside probability and synchonous
4- some urges to say certain things or go certain places I'd consider subconsciously motivated, were they not against my nature and internal desires.
I'm sure that's plenty to stir up a conversation.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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