has any of your prayers and intentions been answered? like when you're in your most critical state of problems that you thought there wasn't any solution and you prayed then all of a sudden you just felt your burden has been lifted up.
2007-10-08 23:54:44 · 27 answers · asked by vallie 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe that if someone prays to God, the one only..Prayer will be effective. But, I don't think its right to advertise your prayer like that. Actually people tries to promote themselves in the name of prayer power.
2007-10-09 00:19:17 · answer #1 · answered by Happily Happy 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
not i. ive always found some kind of opposing explanation other than a miracle for any kind of burden lift or solution. for example, if a patient gets better, even though the doctors who treated the patient had no idea how they got better, the explanation is not that a prayer was answered, but because the will to live of the patient was strong, and they either consciously or unconsciously used mind over matter to make themselves get better. in my opinion, there is always an explanation other than a prayer was answered.
if you doubt what i say, then answer this: why even though people have prayed does an arm or leg not grow back on an amputee?
2007-10-09 00:02:44 · answer #2 · answered by lostcause8436 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Prayer is as effective as tossing a coin into a well and making a wish. Prayer is never answered by some supernatural power. The "lifting of a burden" is just your subconscious releasing the self imposed stress through a self deception that something powerful will take care of you. This may be a nice way of going about life but it is living in a fantasy.
2007-10-09 00:00:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Do you know the cave paintings of Paleolithic people in Lisieux, France? Those are not just artworks but prayers in its most primitive forms, they are visualization of what was hoped for, their own way of articulating their heartfelt desires. As Paolo Coelho wrote, if you desire strong enough, the universe will open a pathway for it to be fulfilled. The collective energy of those going to Catholic Holy Mass creates an enormous pathway for the fulfillment of the intentions. The only thing is, people suspend their God given intellect to believe in miracles.
2007-10-09 00:44:38 · answer #4 · answered by bingtj 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prayer is nothing more than wishful thinking.
But...just because you wish for something...doesn't mean you're going to get it.
I find it rather funny how gullible people don't bother looking for rational answers to things that happen to or for them. Instead they slap a "GOD" or "Miracle" label on it and leave it at that.
Just because a rational explanation for any given event can't be found at the time, doesn't mean that a rational explanation doesn't exist.
2007-10-09 00:15:54 · answer #5 · answered by Adam G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there was really someone 'up there' listening, whose prayers do you think he would feel most compelled to answer? Perhaps those of the child who is about to be raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered? Perhaps those of the people who are unjustly imprisoned, beaten, starved to death, burned alive etc. Wouldn't *you* answer those prayers, if you had the power? Why doesn't god? The only realistic explanation is that no such entity exists.
2007-10-09 00:09:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe in the power of the AA batteries in the drawer to my right. Why the heck then should I believe in the "power of prayer"?
No matter how mutable reality might be, I'm still far too mired in the mundane to make a Ferrari appear outside with my name on it just by believing in it.... and only the gullible draw some sort of causality-link between random happenstance and their desires.
2007-10-09 00:00:36 · answer #7 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I do believe in power of prayer,it something that within that you cant explain, mystery..over a deeper faith,,and you are answered prayer,,it like something a war that you defetead it..keep praying..
2007-10-12 14:15:31 · answer #8 · answered by ver_01 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure you would call it prayer, because I'm not sure that any Divine Entity "answers" it. But I *do* believe in meditation, in focusing your will on achieving some goal. There is a huge well of untapped power in your thoughts -- if you focus your mind on achieving a goal then you will get it.
2007-10-09 00:08:52 · answer #9 · answered by th3_0n3_r1ng 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Prayer is very powerful and I know friends that we prayed for and were healed.
2007-10-09 00:37:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋