lets say you got involved in a serious road accident and you hear your friends prayin to God to help and save them, would you pray to God or let it be?
2006-11-16 02:02:44 · 37 answers · asked by shiro 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
For those who do not believe in God, no amount of talk about prayer will make the slightest difference. If their life was spared and a friend said, "Lots of us were praying for you", this would be dismissed as coincidence. Or cynics would discount any individual answer to prayer with the accusation that God never intervened with the deaths of millions of others. It's a no-win situation.
People are not stopped in their tracks by others praying to God on their behalf, but by God 'speaking' to them personally. I'm not referring to voices. God has myriad ways of getting our attention, when the time is right, and we're ready to listen. Until then, the heavens are as brass. (And they wonder why.)
2006-11-16 02:38:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I wouldnt pray to god. Whats the point. I asked a religious friend of mine why religous people praise god for the bad but dont blame him for the good. She said he does cause "bad" things if they will help avoid worse things, eg something delays you on the way to work, you are late for work but you dont get hit by a bus you might otherwise have been hit by. Someone else said he tests us to build character and give us the experience to help others. But if he didnt ever do the bad stuff we wouldnt need the experience.
So the same question to KJVcountygirl07 and all the other Religious people really. You are convince god helped with the brain tumor, why did he put it there in the first place. You are convinced god helped the poor baby stay in the womb and survive and breath. Why on earth put everyone through the misery of thinking the baby would die???? and if the granny hadnt prayed would he have just let the baby die. Im an agnostic (but I cant see how there is any chance god as the christians see him could exist) and I have two very healthy, happy handsome little boys. I have never prayed for them. We have never had any serious illnesses, I'm sure one day we probably will, thats life. Its not god.
2006-11-16 03:34:54 · answer #2 · answered by pinkyandbunty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call the paramedics. God has nothing to do with it - he did not create this world.
We're only here because we choose to be here - not on a concious level maybe, but this whole world is just one F*cked up nightmare, as is the rest of the universe. And we're the players, the bullies, the victims, whatever. Evrything has to have an opposite. The truth is there's only God, and we're trying to get away because we're afraid of the f*cked up dogmatic version of God religion has presented.
So get an ambulance, we have to make the best of this world and at least try and bring peace. Apparently, this world is one of the few left in the universe within which wars still occur, within which we fight amongst ourselves. We're the HUMAN race. This world isn't 'God's greatest creation', it's all screwed.
But we have to make the best of it.
2006-11-16 03:08:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me try to help you understand our mindset. If a Christian were involved in a serious car crash and could hear her friend praying to Zeus for help, how likely is it that the Christian would join in praying to Zeus? Not very. Humans have worshiped many thousands of deities throughout history. Christians deny that all of them, except one, exists. We who don't believe in God just deny one more than they do.
Kari: "I think it very interesting that everyone is saying 'of course I wouldn't pray'. They just don't want to admit that they would."
That's your assumption. For most atheists, you'd be wrong. But let's assume for a moment that the atheist in the querent's scenario grew up in a religious household and, suddenly faced with his imminent death, got scared and joined his friends in prayer. It still wouldn't matter. Best case scenario is that it would have a calming effect, but no deity would suddenly soar down from the clouds and save them all. That just doesn't happen. It never has. It never will.
2006-11-16 02:50:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why don't Christians just pray for anyone who's ever going to be in an accident? Why don't they just pray for everyone in the world who is in pain? Why don't they pray for all the people with incurable diseases? Why don't they pray for God to come and put his message across in a completely unambiguous way, and therefore eradicate all religious hatred?
Why? Because it wouldn't make an ounce of difference - the prayers would be unheard.
2006-11-16 02:52:42 · answer #5 · answered by Musicol 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it was just a matter of them being trapped then I would do my utmost physically to free them, and once I'd got them out I would give them a very cold glare and explain that if the situation ever repeated itself, they'd better be calling to me for help and not their imaginary friend... and thats only if I was feeling merciful. If I was feeling a bit more ruthless, I'd tell them that I would only help them out if they stopped praying and came back to reality.
If it was an accident that would leave them damaged / crippled for the rest of their lives though .... and they were praying... I would simply euthanise them and make it look like an accident... for their own good.
2006-11-16 02:11:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The real question here is........ what would god do? like if in his infinite wisdom he decided to have some how altered some1 else's life and made them drive past and call an ambulance (geez y doesnt he just use his super powers?) or i suppose if he did nothing that cud b justified as well, lets all blame the atheist's with their rationality and free thinking
in all seriousnes tho id prob just reach for my mobile phone and i i dunno maybe call the pope, hes got a hotline to god doesnt he?
2006-11-16 02:56:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am an agnostic, that is where I want to be.
If there is a God, and my friends where praying, I know I would be as safe as them. If God was needed, willing and able to answer their prayers, I know I would be safe, because you asked if my 'friends' were praying.
My religious friends often pray for me.
2006-11-16 02:12:40 · answer #8 · answered by Sprinkle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no perfection in mankind. Mankind lost that perfection with the sins of Adam and Eve. And the reason of those sins and shortage of life replaced into devil the devil. devil the devil nonetheless exists and is in course of mankind then ever earlier. it fairly is why there would nicely be no perfection even as devil continues to be ruling this global. yet all of which will quickly end and Jehovah God will make the Earth a ideal Paradise back as replaced into his purpose for mankind all alongside. Steve
2016-11-24 22:28:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What good would praying to your god really do? I would place my entire faith in those brave paramedics who at least are real and care so much that they help people. They also do not make claims of being omnipotent without any proof of it.
2006-11-16 07:45:40 · answer #10 · answered by Serenity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋