http://www.ahjonline.com/article/PIIS0002870305006496/abstract?browse_volume=151&issue_key=TOC%40%40JOURNALSNOSUPP%40YMHJ%400151%400004&issue_preview=no&select1=no&select1=no&vol=
Well there you have it christian prayers caused 11 extra complications. Read the article.
I would like to see how muslims do with the same study sort of a prayer competition. As well as catholics since its the one true church.
2007-07-15 13:47:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
1% isn't much, but it did show. It would have been better to start the prayer earlier, and also see how many were believers, etc.. I believe there are a few more variables that need to be considered. I have heard of studies that contradict these findings, but I don't know what the control group had.
2007-07-15 14:00:14 · answer #1 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can still be answered in prayer, even if its not exactly what you asked for. Gods understanding if far superior to ours. Here is an example I like to use a lot: You are a parents and your son is about 6 and wants a bee bee gun. He begs and begs, says that he would be so happy if he got it and its all he needs.. etc. You realize what he doesn't. That a bee bee gun can be dangerous, far more dangerous than h e thinks so you say no. He is angry doesn't understand and thinks you are mean, but he just doesn't have the same understanding. This is the same with God. I realize that this doesn't quite compare with the example you are referring to with the girl who died, however maybe God knew something better could come out of the girl living with diabetes. Perhaps she would become a strong individual who devoted her life to studying the disease and found a cure, or just found a lot of things to help making diabetes better for people. There are good things that can come out of bad things. God always answers. He never says that he will give you EXACTLY what you asked for. but he says that he answers, and he also says that he will give good things to those who ask for good things. There have been times when i prayed for certain things that didn't happen and i was so mad and didn't understand why it didn't happen, then as i got older and matured I realized that Im better off how things turned out, or that what i had prayed for actually wouldn't have been the best thing for me. Again... God's understanding is far greater than ours, just because we don't get exactly what we ask for does not mean we have not been answered and also does not mean that we will not be given good things anyways.
2016-04-01 05:58:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The conclusion of this article was that prayers had NO effect on recovery from heart surgery of people who didn;t know they were being prayed for..
People who KNEW they were being prayed for had a worse outcomes -- the authors of the study guess that this is because they didn't try so hard to get better.
No well conducted study has ever shown a beneficial effect from prayer.
2007-07-15 13:53:25 · answer #3 · answered by Sandy G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It appears the article and study are for real. The chance is close enough to 50/50 to convince me that it can go either way. There are a lot of mitigating factors that can invalidate a study such as this. Don't put too much stock in it. Soon, there will be one that says otherwise. I'd almost lay odds on it.
2007-07-15 13:58:28 · answer #4 · answered by Soul Shaper 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
These are strange times when a few simple words spoken before an operation are said to have lead to complications, really ask any atheist - prayer is nothing more than the rantings meaning nothing except to those that truly believe in them.
2007-07-15 13:55:08 · answer #5 · answered by S.O.S. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The study is a farce. Healing comes as a result of faith. The study had no method of telling who had faith in the prayer and who did not.
Without a means of knowing who had faith and who did not have faith,will always result on studies that cannot be confirmed such as these.
2007-07-15 14:55:11 · answer #6 · answered by wordoflifeb216 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Course it's true. This isn't the first time it's been studied.
Even the negative effects had nothing to do with supernatural intervention - and everything to do with terminally sick people thinking "OMG! They're PRAYING for me! I must be at death's door!"
Nobody's listening.
CD
2007-07-15 13:58:52 · answer #7 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nice. I saw a similar article . Isn't it funny how facts are ignored, just because people WANT to believe?
2007-07-15 13:51:10 · answer #8 · answered by No Chance Without Bernoulli 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋