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Quote by: CoffeeSaint  Very well, but that shows that prayers aren't always answered. They asked for bread, they got starvation; maybe that was the best thing for them (though I can't personally fathom why they shouldn't have bread, live another fifty years in peace and plenty and then go to heaven) but it wasn't actually an answer to their prayers. |
I beg to differ; the answer was no. That may not be the answer they were looking for, but an answer all the same.
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Fair enough, but that isn't actually the representation of prayer being discussed here. The purpose of intercessory prayer is to accomplish something tangible: to potentially change the outcome of a person's illness by praying for God's mercy. It is not intended to give the person spiritual peace; as I said, if that is the purpose of prayer, more power to you.
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You can pray all you want, as long, hard, and often as you want for someone's physical well being, and God will do what's best.
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If all we are supposed to do is ask for god's help and then do what he tells us, then it doesn't sound like we'll have much to contribute to the conversation. But I guess I just don't understand god's motivations.
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Perhaps not..