Muffled
Jesus in me
I believe there is no evidence to support that concept and plenty of evidence that it does work.
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Why Aren't You Praying to End COVID-19?
- Thread starter SalixIncendium
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I believe there is no evidence to support that concept and plenty of evidence that it does work.
Muffled
Jesus in me
While I do agree that one may not attribute the continuance of Covid-19 to a lack of prayer, I believe that I have not heard of anyone praying it would go away.
Altfish
Veteran Member
Could you link to some of your evidence; I've already linked to back up my assertion.
I pray that media stops lying about it.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
What's the lie? Do you think that the number dead is a lie?
I couldn't read without disabling my ad blocker and I'm not doing that. I'm going to guess that the study concludes that prayer didn't work to heal people?
A couple of follow-up questions, since I didn't read the article...
Did the study include only people praying for the healing of others or did it also include people praying for themselves to be healed? If the latter, what was the breakdown of people praying for others vs. people praying for themselves?
Also, coming to a conclusion that "prayer doesn't work" because it doesn't heal is like coming to the conclusion that that my kid is a dullard because she's not good in math.
Good to see where your priorities lie.
In reading the responses here, I'm not sure that I do.
So if you pray for these, and you feel that prayer has an impact on these, then why not just pray for the end of COVID-19? Or at least for a vaccine?
Why not always? Why not pray for it to end? Why not pray for a vaccine?
So if prayer doesn't work to grow limbs, it's pointless?
I can understand this logic...
I once bought a truck that had a plug coming out of the grille. I plugged in every night and drove it each day. After about a week it just stopped running.
Electricity is pointless.
No.
Altfish
Veteran Member
The study included all scientific norms for a test.
People who were ill, some being prayed for, some not; neither knew whether they were being prayed for or not. In other words it was a controlled sample.
Do you always tell them you're praying about them?
Do you pray for your own well-being?
Altfish
Veteran Member
OK, give me a study that shows that prayer works.
I might assume that if people weren't praying we'd have way more cases than we have now. If so, then prayer is absolutely working. I know for a fact that so far it's working for the people I've specifically prayed for. None of them have the Covid and I expect it to stay that way.
Stating we'd have more cases than we have now is pure speculation, unless of course you have data to back this up.
Also, it's useful to learn that you only have a small circle of people you actually care about.
So you're the culprit...
How do you know COVID-19 is God's will?
Maybe it's God's will that COVID-19 exists as a test to see who is willing to pray to end it, and by not praying, you're acting against God's will...
So the study gives us evidence that prayer to heal others doesn't work. It has nothing to say about the effectiveness of prayer in healing oneself.
Altfish
Veteran Member
No. Look you say you can't watch my video; I tried to interpret it,I obviously failed miserably. So let's leave it at that. You will not accept anything I post and you have failed to link evidence proving it works.