2007-08-27 03:08:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Prayer plays a major role in our lives. However, I think the key is obedience, and to stay renewed and keep our minds fresh in the Word, keeping the whole armor of God on so we are always prepared for whatever the world throws at us that day. Prayer is definitely powerful, and it helps tremendously, I do A LOT of praying about everything and it does make a positive difference in my life and the lives of my husband and children. God Bless.
2007-08-27 03:17:25 · answer #1 · answered by ledbytheholyspirit 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Only people who imagine their subjective experience is real are deluded enough to believe prayer actually works. Four hundred years ago, humanity discovered that the physical realm, not subjective experience, is the basis of reality. Your Solipsistic viewpoint causes you to reach a false conclusion. Perhaps you should learn enough ancient philosophy to protect yourself from those who use it to manipulate your mind. Plato's Idealism, Aristotle's Solipsism, and Augustine's Soul are all unsubstantiated philosophical opinions which had no actual basis in reality, but were used as the foundations of Christian theology. The scientific revolution was necessary because Western Civilization got off to a false start. Only the physical realm is actually real. Subjective experience is an illusion, created by our living brains, based on limited information about physical reality provided by our five senses. Your perceptions, thoughts, and prayers are not real. You can either get a real education and learn how reality actually operates, or you can continue to think like a bronze age primitive. It's your choice.
Note to those intolerant Christians who are sure to disagree: The above opinion is much more truthful and far less hateful than spitefully threatening a non-believer with an eternity of suffering in Hell. Please take a moment and think carefully, before you automatically file an illegitimate abuse report, simply because I have expressed an opinion you happen to disagree with.
2007-08-27 10:51:19 · answer #2 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Let me get this straight.
You are praying to a god that already knows what you want, and has already decided on the 'best' course of action, to get him to change that course of action when he already knows all the facts and all the consequences.
Think about it for a few minutes and you might realise how ridiculous this concept is.
And you are making it the key to everything that happens in your life?
No.
You are the key to everything that happens in your life. You want it then you go sort out how to get it.
BTW, do you know that repeated studies have shown prayer to have no effect at all? That is the reality of the universe, get used to it.
2007-08-27 10:24:29 · answer #3 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No,prayer has NO effect on anything.Proper controlled tests have confirmed that prayer makes no difference.Religious people will say it does work but they only count the sucesses not the failures.
2007-08-27 10:23:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. If God has a plan for you, no amount of prayer is going to change that.
2007-08-27 10:22:43 · answer #5 · answered by Professor Farnsworth 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I think trust and obedience is the key!
2007-08-27 10:15:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Not even close
2007-08-27 10:18:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
of course not
2007-08-27 10:18:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋