Experiments have been conducted and have shown that ill people for whom nobody prayed experienced better rates of recovery than did ill people whom received prayers.
If God isn't even going to bother responding to prayers to heal sick people, what exactly does he respond to???
2007-11-08 05:18:32 · 29 answers · asked by Simmo 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus was supposedly all for healing the sick, so what's his dad's problem???
If I had all that power I'd help every sick person on earth!
2007-11-08 05:19:12 · update #1
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/04.06/05-prayer.html
2007-11-08 05:30:46 · update #2
We gee
anybody can make false claims like you are doing now and present them as fact.
I can show you many studies that prove just the opposite of what you are claiming........but guess what.........I'll offer you the same number of links that you offered me.
2007-11-08 05:37:16 · answer #1 · answered by kenny p 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just praying won't do it. You have to pray with faith. The problem is we have subtle forms of unbelief, that we are not inclined to believe of ourselves. To really get faith:
1) Believe in Jesus as your Saviour and Lord
2) Read the Word a lot, meditating
3) Seek and use the gift of praying in tongues a lot
(this edifies one, i.e the hard-to-understand supernatural stuff gets explained to ones understanding.)
4) Fast regularly
There are of course all sorts of experiments of the form you suggest, some of which I have heard have opposite results from the one you claim. Besides everything else, one would want to know how many people were involved in the test, what their belief systems were and so on. E.g a very small sample is useless statistically.
2007-11-08 05:41:53 · answer #2 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is Sovereign but it does not mean that He does not listen to our heart's desire. However, we cannot say that those who were prayed for that died, were faithless. On the other hand,we cannot say as well that those who were neither prayed nor had the faith received what they desired for. There are a lot of cases and not just even experiments concerning unhealed illnesses that MIGHT lead us to believe that God does heal until today.HOWEVER,God responds to prayers according to His will. He can either say yes, no, wait or just be silent until the ATTITUDE towards temporal discomfort on earth will make the concerned individual to depend on Him.
Now, we have to consider a lot of areas concerning prayer and faith. Those who died with unshaken faith in the Lord received complete healing and thereby reigns with Him,sick-free. O death, where is your sting? To live is to love and to die is gain. A person who died does not mean he's gone forever. There is life after death.
2007-11-08 05:45:53 · answer #3 · answered by mehden B 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good and bad news can not be determined by the human being because we don't know the final outcome. People pray for what they WANT because they think they know everything.
Half the time, the worst possible outcome is to get what you think you want. You can pray for someone's recovery from a car accident and then they die an agonizing death from a disease that takes ten years to kill them. God (or whatever the supreme force is like) is not a cosmic bellhop.
2007-11-08 05:28:43 · answer #4 · answered by XYZgal 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The rate of recovery between very religious people and those with absolutely no religion , is the same .
One person can have his whole church congregation at his bedside praying twenty-four hours per day , but the guy in the next bed has the same chance of recovery .
2007-11-08 05:27:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Deuteronomy 6:16 says, "Do not put the Lord thy God to the test." We can't do "studies" on prayer to see how effective it is. God doesn't like to be tested in that way - He's given us plenty of proof He exists, but He wants us to believe in Him by faith, not fear.
God will respond if we come to Him with a sincere heart, AND with the right motives.
God Bless.
2007-11-08 05:27:57 · answer #6 · answered by Linnie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
seems such as you do in contrast to a number of different solutions. perchance you're able to take the view that prayer does artwork, even nonetheless the extra people who prey some concern or ailment the lots extra probably it somewhat is to be resolved. God does answer yet no longer as you sometimes might choose, alleviation from suffering does contain dying as properly as by utilising turning out to be to be properly. now and returned God in simple terms needs the guy fro himself and you're able to enable circulate.
2016-10-01 21:51:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God the Father does not answer prayers concerning the body or anything within the physical world, it is the spirit God is concerned with. Your spirirt is your life not the body.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:11-13
the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. Matt 12:43-45
Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak Matt 26:41
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. Luke 24:39
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. John 3:6
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4:24
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. John 6:63-64
2007-11-08 05:46:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because those who do pray do not believe they are losing out hence if their life is shortened, they're prayers will go with them. Its the ones that don't pray that have the longer lives in hope that eventually they do accept the word of God.
2007-11-08 05:24:15 · answer #9 · answered by laydeeheartless 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have always heard the opposite effect, that prayer helps healing, whether the person being prayed for is a believer or not.
Where did you get your information?
2007-11-08 05:31:11 · answer #10 · answered by Gal from Yellow Flat 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If You helped every sick person on earth, then we would all die healthy?
Dying is a kind of cure, sometimes the best one. Don't thumb me down for that because we just had a death in my family that was a huge relief and (IMO) a blessing for the man who died. He went the HARD way.
2007-11-08 05:28:14 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋