Is it possible that all the results of your answered prayers can be explained outside of God doing it?

Answer 1

yes, you yourself did it.
example:
if you prayed for a better job maybe it was the fact that you work hard that got you that promotion and not god.

your house got destroyed in new orleans might have been due to that fact that you built it in a soupbowl shaped city, surrounded by water, in a known hurricane region.

i'm repeating myself now......

Answer 2

George Carlin says it better than anyone I've ever heard. He stopped praying to god in favor of praying to Joe Pesci.

http://www.valleyskeptic.com/george.htm

So I've been praying to Joe for about a year now. And I noticed something. I
noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I
now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half
the time I get what I want, half the time I don't. Same as God, 50-50. Same
as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe, the wishing well and the rabbit's
foot, same as the Mojo Man, same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your
fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles, it's all the same: 50-50. So just
pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.


And for those of you who look to The Bible for moral lessons and literary
qualities, I might suggest a couple of other stories for you. You might want
to look at the Three Little Pigs, that's a good one. Has a nice happy ending,
I'm sure you'll like that. Then there's Little Red Riding Hood, although it
does have that X-rated part where the Big Bad Wolf actually eats the
grandmother. Which I didn't care for, by the way.


And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty
Dumpty. The part I like the best? "All the king's horses and all the king's
men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again." That's because there is
no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no God. None, not one, no God, never was. In
fact, I'm gonna put it this way. If there is a God, may he strike this
audience dead! See? Nothing happened. Nothing happened? Everybody's okay? All
right, tell you what, I'll raise the stakes a little bit. If there is a God,
may he strike me dead. See? Nothing happened, oh, wait, I've got a little
cramp in my leg. And my balls hurt. Plus, I'm blind. I'm blind, oh, now I'm
okay again, must have been Joe Pesci, huh? God Bless Joe Pesci. Thank you all
very much. Joe Bless You!

Answer 3

Sometimes yes, and sometimes no. There are times when answered prayers can be explained just as well by coincidence, or other natural phenomena. There are other times when the answers are miraculous- a flagrant violation of the basic laws of science. There are still other times when a "natural" explanation for an event is so incredibly unlikely that only an idiot could believe God wasn't involved. So there's a continuum of sorts. You have to judge each case on its own merits, if the question interests you.

Answer 4

As a wiccan, yes I believe that prayers can be answered outside of Gods doing. Prayer is an energy that we send out to the universe.We can direct this energy any way we want. You get what you put into it though

Answer 5

Several things could be coincidental, sure, but there have been a few times in my life where answered prayer could only have come from God.

When I had Mononucleosis, after receiving prayer for it, I went from being too tired to stand, to literally the next instant, jumping and full of energy, and ever since have been free of the disease. Now, I know many people who recover from mono and lead regular lives, but never in an instant!

Answer 6

it depends on the mindset of the human in question...there are 2 basic lines of thought..one that believes in God and has little concern for human logic cos Gods ways are incomprehensible to man...and the other that believes only in physical evidence and logical reasoning with the available evidence
So going by the first line of thought ...wherein God is in control naturally for such people..everything in their lives is dictated and approved of by God ...cos they are his children nothing is beyond the purview of His will for them, and so obviously nothing indeed (answered prayers) can be explained outside of God doing it

the second line of thought which believes in reasoning out with the help of available tangible evidence..most of the answered prayers can be explained without divine intervention..cos the human mind is not just logical it can conjure up meaningful assumptions too so basically if u ask ur mind a question ..invariably u know the answer or in tough cases u feel that u are close to the answer just need to confirm it

Answer 7

This question is a lil bit better.

My answer: No one knows. If the same instant you pray for an extra $20 so you can buy groceries for your babies, you find a $20 bill under your tire. Is that from God? Or did your neighbors purse drop and $20 feel out and blew over to you? OR did that $20 fall out of your purse earlier and you didn't realize it? OR did God make it? He made the universe he can make a $20 bill.

No one knows...

Answer 8

I could explain things any way I wanted couldn't I?

However, there is objective truth to cause and effect. I could say that ball fell to the ground because of gravity or because the invisible gnomes pulled it down. Any prayer can be explained away, but that does not mean the explanation is true.

Answer 9

Yes, that is why people are becoming less religious. If people recognized their prayers answered by God then they would worship Him for the worldly advantages and thus become a form of idolatry.

Answer 10

I think that God works in what we recoginze as natural law. I think spiritually when we ask for or need to know something and are ready, answers come. ..that it's an actual spiritual law. It may be in the form of good experience or bad..but this natural rule of order is at work at all times. I think that is how God works, so I think He's in charge of everything at all times.

Answer 11

u wanna god makes his replies to ur prayers as miracles
if so
ppl will not work
they will only pray & pray more
thats not the life
u must work then u gain useful things after that


thats the LIFE