Is prayer really supposed to help?
If a true judge does not pardon a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment or a fine (assuming the sentence is justified), even if there are countless witnesses to the truth about the convicted person,
Why do supposedly religious people think (or are supposed to think) that God will change the fate of a sick person because of a few prayers (or even a lot of prayers)?
Let’s say there is a person who is seriously ill. For the believer, reality is predictable – this illness did not come by chance, but came according to the law. So why do religious people think it is likely that God will answer their prayers and perform a miracle so that the person will recover?
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How would you have answered this 30 years ago, when you believed in the mystical influence of prayers (the absurdity that says "justified change of law, by hocus pocus") and providence?
My answer to this was given by changing my position later.
Is it absurd and anti-logical to say that prayer can change the fate of x thing?
If the Creator watches over and sometimes desires, according to certain criteria, to grant something despite its obligations, it is inevitable that He will do so, just as He does indeed sustain His entire world every moment, even though most of it corrupts creation from its foundation.
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