If two people (oponents) pray for victory, put same effort and one emergies the winner, is God patial for favouring one of the oponents? strickly philosophical no bible backup.

If they both prayed, then why not just seat and watch god do the contest then, why do they still need to do it..

pacquiao prayed, mayweather won, god didn't do the punching for the prayerful pacquiao.

If you don't do it, no deity (god ).will do it for you. This is reality not merlin.

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OP, the simple answer here is this, its one of my guiding principles in life, here is it;

Work all you can, read all you can then allow God to have the final say.