Some of you need a God, but others don't. Why is that Pray?

Question

And have your prayers ever been answered by devine intervention?

Answer 1

i worshipped all my life,my prayers were not answered .
i only asked one thing in my life life of our son.

Answer 2

The people that believe in God want to believe that there is something worth waiting for, something worth preparing for after this life. Some of them need the hope that things will get better, some of them think this is a way to make this life better. Those that don't believe in God think that they're doing ok in this life, and so see no need to believe its going to get better. That's why desparate people, say drug addicts that want to change their lives around or starving children in Third World countries, are more likely to believe in God than comfortably middle class people, because they need that hope to survive another day. On the prayers answered thing, I. , myself, have had little small prayers answered like catching that all important bus and all that - stuff that could be put down to coincidence, but have also seen the outcome of other prayers in my church, such as drug addicts coming clean and even physical healings like one lady's ongoing back problems going over night and so on.

Answer 3

I personally think that prayer is asking the Gods to work through you and with you. I think some prayers aren't "answered" because its asking for the impossible. The Gods aren't going to fix things for you. You have to do that on your own, other wise you won't learn anything. So I suppose in the end it has to do with what your asking for. You have to take responsibility for you won life and choices. That's not the Gods job, its yours.

Answer 4

Praying helps a lot. It's like talking to God - doing the Adoration,Confession,Thanksgiving,Supplication (ACTS).
Some of my prayers are answered or granted but some or not because i believe HE knows what is best for us.

Answer 5

Hi,
everyone needs a relationship with God and He has answered loads of prayers in my life. Sometimes He doesn't answer them the way I want, but He always does what's right.
God Bless

Answer 6

http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/god5.htm

Prayer has been proven to not work. This link is an example of an easy experiment to prove it to anyone else. It's so simple a child can understand it, yet Christians will still try to weasel their way around it. :)

Edit - Baronbago's answer below is a good example of why they TRY so hard not to face the truth. He just explained that he would kill himself if he didn't have a god to believe in. I haven't believed in god for 20 years, and I have no intention of killing myself. That is the difference between a rational person, and a believer. A believer would rather die than face reality.

Answer 7

Some people think they live on a flat earth too.

If I decide not to believe in the existence of earth, will that make it cease to exist?

My point is all of us need our creator to know the purpose of our life. A life without purpose and meaning and ultimate direction is worse than a joke... it's cruel.

If I really believed there was no God- I'd throw myself from a high place and make a big splash on Broadway.

Thankfully that's entirely unnecessary. :)

Thanks for listening.

Answer 8

Some of us are content with more abstract and esoteric concepts of the divine, while others need stories and visual images. I go both ways (that's Pisces for you!), in that I love the symbolism and the stories, but I don't take them too literally. I see them as useful metaphors for the reality which is more abstract. It's sort of like what physicists do when they try to explain quantum mechanics.

Answer 9

no offence meant here this is just my perception
because some people need to feel that there is something more that this, someone who has control (more or less) of their lives and that someone is waiting for them, to rescue them and take them to a better life when they die.

and others are happy in the knowledge that there is no heaven and that they control their own lives. that when they die there is what they want not a heaven to have to be perfect to get into or a hell to be damned to.

i don't believe in god or heaven or hell for that matter, but i have reached a happiness with death in that i have my own beliefs in what will happen to me and guaranteed there ain't nobody going to judge me when i die!

Answer 10

The need to pray is a way of salving your concience for your inadequancies. If something goes wrong it's ultimately a higher beings will.....Naff

The rest of us realise we are in control of our own destiny and just get on with it.

Answer 11

Yes, I've had a divine intervention.

I don't know why the gods interact with some people but not others. When my gods chose me, they gave me a hell of a time.... But I don't think I needed them.

I don't pretend to understand how they work.