Do you consider that to be evidence that prayer works?
2007-01-12 18:41:44 · 13 answers · asked by Wrath of Sam 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
sounds high to me
2007-01-12 18:45:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is no percentage to the success rate when it comes to prayers. If you don't ask, you can't receive. God doesn't answer all prayers. If you do not ask whole heartedly, God doesn't answer your prayers. If you do not follow the word of God, He will not answer your prayers. I know some people who pray death upon others, of course God will not hurt others just because someone prays for it. I have prayed and God has answered my prayers. Let me give you a testimony: You know divorice is wrong, I got married to this man, after I married him he turned out to be abusive in every single sense of the word (physically, mentally, emotionally, verbally), I knew that divorce was wrong so I stayed with this man. I was a good and submissive wife just as the Bible says to be. I prayed daily and asked God to please either fix my marriage or give me an escape route. This man cheated on me. He had a one night stand and out of that he got this other woman pregnant, which is how I found out he cheated and that was grounds for a divorce.
Another prayer answered: I prayed and asked God to send me an man who would love, honor and cherish me. I met the most wonderful man in the world. His whole world revolves around me, he is faithful, loyal,loving, caring, he cooks and cleans and loves the heck out of me!!!
2007-01-13 02:56:01 · answer #2 · answered by ladystarrchild107 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's being generous.
There has never been an "answered prayer" that couldn't just as well happen by coincidence and the laws of random chance in the history of prayer. Millions of people praying for thousands of years, and not once has anything happened that couldn't have happened under known natural laws.
Yet Jesus/God PROMISES that ALL prayer will be answered if you pray and believe. If you have faith even as little as a mustard seed. (hey...side question, why didn't Jesus know that the mustard seed wasn't actually the smallest seed? Why didn't he know the fig tree was barren until he walked up to it?)
Has no christian in history never believed enough to pray for something impossible....like lets say, regrowing an amputated limb? Didn't Billy Graham,Garner Ted Armstrong, Jerry Falwell have enough faith?? Does god hate amputees that much? Are they part of a special plan? (oh yeah? show me where it says that in your script...er scripture)
2007-01-13 02:53:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is obviously impossible to evaluate any such percentage. As some religious type noted in another question in this forum, god may answer: yes, no, or not yet, and the latter are indistinguishable. The whole business is a heads I win, tails you lose proposition: if you get what you wanted, your prayers were answered (and you know this, how?); if you didn't, your prayer was somehow insufficient, and the mere non-existence of a god who might answer such is simply not an issue for you.
2007-01-13 02:51:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Prayer has a very high success rate. I don't know anything about 0.01%. How do you explain people praying for miracles and they happen. That is not luck either. Prayer changes things. And I will be praying for a lot of people on Y!A
2007-01-13 03:09:10 · answer #5 · answered by m W 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well the success rate of prayers is 99% I don't know where you get your figures from but my prayers are answered, and all others who pray respectfully and humbly will be answered, too, but if you don't believe that God answers prayers, then he won't because you are not putting faith in him
2007-01-13 02:52:13 · answer #6 · answered by I speak Truth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Goodness! That would be even lower than sheer chance, wouldn't it? o_O
Well, I guess it would depend on what you're praying for...
I'm a Wiccan. I work magic, and I believe that it works. I'm not totally stupid - I've taken enough psychology classes to know that we humans remember our successes and discard our failures; that we give undue important to magic and prayers when it "seems" to work. I believe in it, anyway, please don't misunderstand me, but I just keep in mind that I *might* be wrong.
I like to hope that it keeps me from being dogmatic?
2007-01-13 02:51:38 · answer #7 · answered by Aeryn Whitley 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who says this is the percentage rate of answered prayers?
That's not MY percentage rate!
God ALWAYS answers my prayers, in His own schedule, for my own betterment, and sometimes the answer is no.
He is not my personal puppet, you know; however He is my Heavenly Father who delights in giving His children good things they desire according to His will.
2007-01-13 03:13:09 · answer #8 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure! ,01% is a great ratio, even in direct mail advertising! Yeah, prayers do work. i have had some come into reality
2007-01-13 02:47:30 · answer #9 · answered by dragon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As I am becoming more aware of God and His will. I am forgetting a will of my own. My success rate it sky rocketing. When I get confused or doubtful I lose focus on Him, my success rate drops.
2007-01-13 02:49:16 · answer #10 · answered by rezany 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋