The Logical Flaw of Prayers

[Jay520]

@Andre

"But why would he need to be asked? Why does he want you to ask for it when he knows exactly what you want and how much you need it? How could this possibly benefit him in anyway? And if he's doing it for the benefit of us, rather than himself, then again, why?"

As said earlier, the simple act of prayer is enough. Through prayer, you demonstrate your weakness and you acknowledge the Lord as the one who has the power to help you. Even though God already knows this, it's the ACT of you demonstrating this that God wants. He wants you to meet him halfway to help yourself.

" Assuming you're Christian, there are 6 billion people on this planet who aren't praying to what you pray to, so what happens to them? God knows they believe in and pray to a different God(s), but he stil expects people to ask for help when the vast majority don't even know who to ask or are asking the wrong deity? He doesn't even have the decency to tell these people that they're asking the wrong dude, not even a hint of his existence for 2000 years (and that's assuming Jesus is the son of God, and existed)"

You may not believe this, but the Christian spirit was once inside of every living person. So everyone had the oppurtunity to find our Lord. Some just chose to ignore Him.

"Firstly, if the source of his depression is paralysis, then healing his paralysis would indeed eliminate the man's depression."

Yes, it could. But again, that's not the only way to get rid of his depression. If God answers his prayers (again, IF), then he may have his own methods of providing a solution

"Secondly, this 'wisdom' is something most if not all amputees eventually find out on there own, people learn to deal with their disabilities."

And I'd argue that the Lord has helped a lot of these amputees learn to deal with their disabilities. Sometimes through prayer. Sometimes God helped without prayer. And sometimes they found it without God.

"And thirdly, saying he's given the man wisdom instead of a limb is just very unconvincing, it reinforces the statement I made earlier about claims of answered prayers always conveniently being something that could happen anyway or was likely to happen."

I'm not trying to convince you or prove anything. You asked a question and I gave you the answer. You can do with these facts what you want. Believe them or don't believe them. It's up to you.

"I'll change the question to "Why are there no answered prayers that could not of happened by chance confirmed by study and evidence?"

I personally know many people who have had there prayers answered (myself included). I know these people and I don't care much about sharing our experiences with any surveyers because we can't show proof. Like you said, the doubters will always believe that our experiences just happened by chance and God didn't affect anything. And that's fine. You have the right to believe whatever you believe. We know what really caused the changes.

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I used to be like you, Andre. I understand you don't intentionally choose not to believe in Him. You just believe what your brain finds the most logical explanation, and you can't control that function. My advise would be to keep an open mind & heart. If you do this, then I'm sure you will find the truth and all will be clear.

PS: Sorry I can't quote, my phone is having memory issues.