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This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Workch: 8:11am On Oct 09, 2021
Harvard professor Herbert Benson performed a "Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)" in 2006. The STEP, commonly called the "Templeton Foundation prayer study" or "Great Prayer Experiment", used 1,802 coronary artery bypass surgery patients at six hospitals. Using double-blind protocols, patients were randomized into three groups, individual prayer receptiveness was not measured. The members of the experimental and control Groups 1 and 2 were informed they might or might not receive prayers, and only Group 1 received prayers. Group 3, which served as a test for possible psychosomatic effects, was informed they would receive prayers and subsequently did. Unlike some other studies, STEP attempted to standardize the prayer method. Only first names and last initial for patients were provided and no photographs were supplied. The congregations of three Christian churches who prayed for the patients "were allowed to pray in their own manner, but they were instructed to include the following phrase in their prayers: "for a successful surgery with a quick, healthy recovery and no complications". Some participants complained that this mechanical way they were told to pray as part of the experiment was unusual for them. Complications of surgery occurred in 52 percent of those who received prayer (Group 1), 51 percent of those who did not receive it (Group 2), and 59 percent of patients who knew they would receive prayers (Group 3). There were no statistically significant differences in major complications or thirty-day mortality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficacy_of_prayer#The_STEP_project

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Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Baawaa(m): 8:12am On Oct 09, 2021
By your faith,I prays and God answers
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Workch: 8:19am On Oct 09, 2021
Baawaa:
By your faith,I prays and God answers
how can we measure that vis-a-vis those that don't pray.
Have you had more successes than an average person that doesn't pray?
Think out of thr box

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Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by SSIPON(m): 8:19am On Oct 09, 2021
Baawaa:
By your faith,I prays and God answers

So why doesn't God heal amputees

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Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by SSIPON(m): 8:20am On Oct 09, 2021
Oga you dey waste your time. For example, money ritual doesn't work, yet a lot of Nigerians believe it does. Nigerians have developed this disease I would like to call, "immunity to evidence".
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by petra1(m): 5:34pm On Oct 09, 2021
Workch:
Harvard professor Herbert Benson performed a "Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)"

prayer Works. God is not a liar

Mark 11:24 (KJV)
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

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Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by A001: 5:43pm On Oct 09, 2021
Workch:
Harvard professor Herbert Benson performed a "Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)" in 2006. The STEP, commonly called the "Templeton Foundation prayer study" or "Great Prayer Experiment", used 1,802 coronary artery bypass surgery patients at six hospitals. Using double-blind protocols, patients were randomized into three groups, individual prayer receptiveness was not measured. The members of the experimental and control Groups 1 and 2 were informed they might or might not receive prayers, and only Group 1 received prayers. Group 3, which served as a test for possible psychosomatic effects, was informed they would receive prayers and subsequently did. Unlike some other studies, STEP attempted to standardize the prayer method. Only first names and last initial for patients were provided and no photographs were supplied. The congregations of three Christian churches who prayed for the patients "were allowed to pray in their own manner, but they were instructed to include the following phrase in their prayers: "for a successful surgery with a quick, healthy recovery and no complications". Some participants complained that this mechanical way they were told to pray as part of the experiment was unusual for them. Complications of surgery occurred in 52 percent of those who received prayer (Group 1), 51 percent of those who did not receive it (Group 2), and 59 percent of patients who knew they would receive prayers (Group 3). There were no statistically significant differences in major complications or thirty-day mortality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficacy_of_prayer#The_STEP_project
Nice
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Dtruthspeaker: 7:17pm On Oct 09, 2021
Workch:
Harvard professor Herbert Benson performed a "Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)" in 2006.

God CAN NEVER EVER EVER HEAR NOR ANSWER THE PRAYERS OF EVIL, SIN FULL PEOPLE!

HE ALMOST WOULD NEVER DO IT


So it was a waste of time and resources and energy and everything.

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Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Nobody: 7:24pm On Oct 09, 2021
A001:

Nice


Why do you do certain things
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Workch: 7:59pm On Oct 09, 2021
Dtruthspeaker:


God CAN NEVER EVER EVER HEAR NOR ANSWER THE PRAYERS OF EVIL, SIN FULL PEOPLE!

HE ALMOST WOULD NEVER DO IT


So it was a waste of time and resources and energy and everything.



God never hears prayers
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:13pm On Oct 09, 2021
Prayers are petitions made to unseen beings so whoever wants a result must beleive (trust) in the spirit by adhering STRICTLY to the orders given by the spirit before expecting to see a result!
In the Bible God only listens to the prayers of those who are faithful and obedient to Him, as for faithless people their prayers goes into the trash! smiley
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Dtruthspeaker: 6:01am On Oct 10, 2021
Workch:
God never hears prayers

Because the peoples of the earth are very evil overpouring with sin.
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Workch: 6:14am On Oct 10, 2021
Dtruthspeaker:


Because the peoples of the earth are very evil overpouring with sin.
He is not in existence
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by helinues: 6:17am On Oct 10, 2021
If you hustle smartly with no muscle,then prayer is no needed.

But if you dey hustle with muscle, e.g those who dig soak away, if you like pray from today till eternity, there is no guarantee that such prayer would be answered
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Dtruthspeaker: 6:24am On Oct 10, 2021
Workch:
He is not in existence

Yet you continuously bother yourself with Him up to the level of Fulfilling His Words by Insulting and blasphemimg Him as Prophecied.

No one bothers themselves about things that do not exist.

But hatred and Cursing is always directed towards Things in existence.

And this is because He has Marked you out for Guaranteed death, NO REPENTANCE FOR YOU, so you are just here to take other stupid people like you who never Listened.
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Workch: 6:59am On Oct 10, 2021
Dtruthspeaker:


Yet you continuously bother yourself with Him up to the level of Fulfilling His Words by Insulting and blasphemimg Him as Prophecied.

No one bothers themselves about things that do not exist.

But hatred and Cursing is always directed towards Things in existence.

And this is because He has Marked you out for Guaranteed death, NO REPENTANCE FOR YOU, so you are just here to take other stupid people like you who never Listened.

He never shows up when it matters because he doesn’t exist.
This study would have been the evidence but all evidence for god is always negative. He’s imaginary

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Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Workch: 7:04am On Oct 10, 2021
Dtruthspeaker:


Yet you continuously bother yourself with Him up to the level of Fulfilling His Words by Insulting and blasphemimg Him as Prophecied.

No one bothers themselves about things that do not exist.

But hatred and Cursing is always directed towards Things in existence.

And this is because He has Marked you out for Guaranteed death, NO REPENTANCE FOR YOU, so you are just here to take other stupid people like you who never Listened.

grin we need more people out of religion. We have to let the world see the scam especially in Nigeria. It’s important for our future and the struggle has started.

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Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Bacteriologist(m): 7:08am On Oct 10, 2021
Prayer is an act of unbelief not belief. Prayer is you telling your god he has things mixed up and only you can tell him how to fix it. It's an insult on your gods intelligence.

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Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Nobody: 7:45am On Oct 10, 2021
Workch:
grin we need more people out of religion. We have to let the world see the scam especially in Nigeria. It’s important for our future and the struggle has started.
It would be very hard, religion is the only thing that gives people some sense of special feeling especially in this country.

Paint me a picture on advantageous irreligious would be beneficial to an average Nigeria.
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Workch: 7:49am On Oct 10, 2021
CamusMidas:

It would be very hard, religion is the only thing that gives people some sense of special feeling especially in this country.

Paint me a picture on advantageous irreligious would be beneficial to an average Nigeria.
In most cases, the decline of religion comes with advancement in science and technology. It gives way for critical reasoning that leads to infrastructural and social development.
Religion kills critical thinking, it’s very evident in Nigeria.
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by orisa37: 8:17am On Oct 10, 2021
PRAY:-

PRAISE WHOEVER YOU THINK IS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR EXISTENCE.

REVIEW YOUR PAST AND REPENT.

ASK BY SEARCHING YOUR CONSCIENCE FOR THE WAY FORWARD.

YESOOO IJN AMEN.

ER AS IN PRAYER:-

EXPECTING BY HOPE, PEACE, PATIENCE PERSEVERANCE ENDURANCE HUMILITY WAITING AND LOVING NOT HATING.

RESULTS CONFIDENTLY AND

SUCCESSFULLY AS IN PRAYERS. WITH BIBLE AND PRAYERS YOU CAN'T LOOSE NOTHING.
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Dtruthspeaker: 9:20am On Oct 10, 2021
Workch:
He never shows up when it matters because he doesn’t exist...

When your laptop, car, phones your house calls you answer at your own pleasure and at your time

So you do not exist when you do not answer them.

Therefore, it is normal.
Re: This Study Provides Evidence That Praying To God Doesn't Solve A Problem. by Workch: 9:22am On Oct 10, 2021
Dtruthspeaker:


When your laptop, car, phones your house calls you answer at your own pleasure and at your time

So you do not exist when you do not answer them.

Therefore, it is normal.
Here we go again with the god of HP and Toyota

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