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donnffd:
So let me get this straight, God answers your prayer a few hours after you prayed but ignores the millions suffering and promises he would answer theirs when the new Jerusalem comes?

Seriously?

donnffd:
So let me get this straight, God answers your prayer a few hours after you prayed but ignores the millions suffering and promises he would answer theirs when the new Jerusalem comes?

Seriously?

AgentOfAllah:
Op, it's impossible for anybody to give any meaningful explanation to your experiences and I'll demonstrate why to you:

1) Your experiences were uniquely yours, so you'll have to provide more than those three instances before any conclusions can be drawn. You simply haven't provided enough information. For instance, I don't know how many times you've prayed in your life, and how many of those prayers were answered. I don't know how long you've been a private contractor, how many clients you have, and what they think about the quality of your jobs. I don't know how many jobs you've executed without prayers since you became a contractor, etc.
2) After all of the information, I would still need some control samples to check how much your experience diverges from the norm, so I'd have to compare your experience with that of contractors of other belief systems, e.g. Muslims, Hindus, Jews, atheists, Buddhists and so on. Only this way will I be able to know that your prayers have enjoyed an unusual amount of attention from god.
3) Even after you provide me with all required information, I have no guarantees that you have been completely honest, so I might be able to come up with a scientific number, but that does not mean it wouldn't have been sullied by disinformation.

I hope you can now appreciate the difficulty of your request. However, I can offer you clarity based on probability theory:
Consider a scenario where ALL of your prayers aren't answered. This would be an improbability which could be given the interpretation that a sentient, purposeful god truly exists, only you've been praying to the wrong one.

The bottom line is that as far as my experience goes, the 'answered prayers' illusion has an above-zero probabilistic value, and is thus, not an unusual phenomenon.

ashjay001:
op, lets leave all ds xtians and atheist 1st!

My take is, u just discovered d 'god' in u! Use it well, afterall we are supposedly made in God's image.

The atheists av a point, every adherent of every religion, gets his prayers ans at some point, where I believe dey derail is claiming it as several gods! Its just d one God, but u need to tap into ur inner self to access him!

Practicing any religion, doesnt guarantee access, so far as u've not discovered ur inner deity/chi!

Forget religion and enjoy ur relationship with God, one on one!

If though av faith as a mustard seed, ........
Build up ur faith to such proportions as to uproot mountains! Really, u can, without having to resort to any particular belief or unbelief!

jbaby265:
abstaining...nko

Weah96:
Humans cannot survive without food. After starving for days, you were bound to get food sooner rather than later. You are over thinking it.

Talk to me when you don't have a business going already, and then clients still call anyway to dash you money.
But for you to be an independent contractor and not know that there will be hungry days, means that you probably mismanaged your funds.

Lennycool:
It is luck bro. Very good luck. A person that won the lottery would find it harder to believe than this your prayer that got answered. Can you imagine being chosen amongst 20 million people?
Yet it happens.

Lennycool:
Luck is when something highly improbable happens.

You prayed and it happened soon after. What of all the times you prayed and nothing happened?
What of the millions that pray and nothing happens?
The odds of winning a lottery is very improbable, in some cases 1 in 20 million. But people still win it don't they. If you were to pray every single time for things that could not happen by luck(like the examples I mentioned above) and it happened then you can attribute it to God.

Lennycool:
Calm down
It was just improbable luck.
If you refuse to accept this then it means every God in existence from every religion is real as they also answer prayers.

haywire07:
Truly, she wowo na . she don even dey fine now unlike dat time wey she never marry .

Lennycool:
See you so it is wrong to suggest that he should pray for all the starving children in the world to get food for atleast a year? Why then? How can such selflessness be considered against God's will?
Or is it because you know it will never be answered?
As for the OP. Traditional worshippers probably experienced the same thing you mentioned. As do Muslims, and Hindus and any other religion you can think of. Do you believe that all their Gods are real too?
If not, then answered prayers are not proof of any God. Not unless the prayers are unambiguous.
Like praying for an amputees limb to regrow
Getting heads when you throw a coin 50 times in a row
Feeding all the starving children for a year
Getting snake eyes on dice fifty times in a row
E.t.c
These prayers can never happen by luck. Only a supernatural force can make them come through.

EyeHateGod:
you shouldn't have bothered answering the op Is just looking for argument...

If he really wants to learn he knows what to do..

donnffd:
You know if you were a muslim and prayed to allah instead of the yahweh, those things would still have happened, does that mean allah exists?

You can try this experiment with any religion that believes in a supernatural being, the answer is always the same, you pray and your prayer gets answered, but how do you know it was yahweh that was answering your prayers?

The human mind is a powerful thing and easily deceives itself, we always long for a big and greater being in our lives or society, if its not God and religion, then its advanced aliens or something like that, its in our genetic makeup.

You have given two instances where you prayed a personal prayer and God answered you, but have you stopped to think about the other millions of people in the world today that are far worse than you were when you prayed, and they keep praying and they keep dying in starvation and disease, do God hate them?, what about the cancer patients praying to God for a healing, do God despises them? Why dont their prayers get answered also?...just asking an honest question.

People go to church and give testimonies of how God made them have a contract or how he helped them find their car keys but forget the millions in the world suffering and dying with no sign of help coming from anywhere even with constant prayers, why are religious people so self absorbed?

Well, if God answered your prayers, and he really exists, then ask him to solve world poverty and hunger, cure cancer and all diseases, stop natural disasters from happening and heal amputees...then we would know God is real and he does infact answers prayers.

Sibrah:
I believe 100%.
My reason is Covenant and Landmark university are God idea. Oyedepo can't just sit down one day and decide to be subsidizing education on his own.

analice107:
I was in Pre-Shilo service this morning. The wrath of God was never mentioned once. He didnt even warn any Critic. chai lairs everywhere.

what will you gain by telling these kind of lies?

EHMIR:
I knw,its them nau.

Shey no be ugwu exporters,they are very industrious and hard working


Make NCA no bother check names biko,every body know that they no get rivals for this kind of crimes.



Dodges bunch of ugwu nd climbs okada***

ifenes:
Physical Reality is a reflection( of my state of being/consciousness). I am not in this body of mine,just an experience of myself in this state of space and time. Space and Time are illusionary but I still create the effect of them in my life experience as a physicalised being. Meaning I as "All That Is" have lowered my frequency ( God becoming) man.... To be able to play this game of being a physical human. Example... You do know that when you look into a glass mirror,what you see is a reflection of you. You are not over there but over here. This is what I mean by Physical

Your question: you will experience my body decay because you are still in the state of physical reality. You have been made to believe that when I die my body will decay, hence that is what you will experience. What ever the mind believes shapes the experience physically.