People often complain about how their prayers always go unanswered, and I was just wondering what the AG community thought about this topic. I was also interested in where your opinions where on asking God for something.
Exactly prayer brings people together to comfort them. So why should they stop?
There's nothing wrong if you want to pray, but it doesn't really work. You could also just talk to your friends or a psychiatrist. If you have really big problems then praying won't solve anything.
Incurable disease there will never be a cure.
How do we know that it is incurable? Maybe we just haven't researched enough.
Rather then praying someone to get better, research the disease.
Yes, oh yes. ONE PERSON can totally start a research foundation and find a cure for that disease before the person dies. Besides, what disease doesn't have a foundation?
People should pray about themselves as little as possible. People should pray for the less fortunate people who have to deal with disease and natural disasters. If someone does pray for themselves, then they shouldn't pray for things like "help me get into college" or "heal my booboo". They should pray for improvement on skills that will help you achieve those goals. Like "Help me understand what I just studied" or "Help the pain go away".
Or you could put more money in reasearch or help if a natural disaster happens. Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
The funny things is that even though people keep saying you should do less praying and more helping with research and donations, I'm guessing more than half of those who say so will never do it even once in their lifetime, despite not wasting time praying.
I'm just saying, imagine someone got cancer, and his brother was a janitor or something. Would you really expect him to start researching cancer? Would you expect him to donate large sums to the research? No, you wouldn't. Basically, what I'm saying is that sometimes a situation is out of your hands. I'm not saying praying would help you, you could just as well find comfort in knowing that professionals are working doing their best to fix the situation, but I'm just saying that you shouldn't go all "if you pray, you're not helping!" on them.
Besides, by praying in times of an emergency, I doubt they mean sitting 8 hours or so per day just praying. They probably just pray for a short while before going to bed and such, times when they wouldn't have done anything constructive anyway.
However, though I'm sure few people do this, you should never put your trust in praying when there are alternatives. For example, Jehovah's Witnesses believe it's a sin to receive blood transfusions. It's not really about praying, I know, but it's the best example I know of a situation where someone's belief could interfere with their medical treatment or similar.
Not necessarily... You can easily donate money and supplies and if you work at home you can take lots of time off.
Now your going all theoretical on me. Just change the not necessarily to theoretically and you got a match. But really think about doesn't your country need help. Why not start a business and create a new insinuative and make money. Use that money on people who need it like hard working mexicans.
Could you explain that? And besides, it doesn't always help. The opposite can be the case:
Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found.
And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, perhaps because of the expectations the prayers created, the researchers suggested. Source
Now your going all theoretical on me. Just change the not necessarily to theoretically and you got a match. But really think about doesn't your country need help. Why not start a business and create a new insinuative and make money. Use that money on people who need it like hard working mexicans.
I don't see what's so theoretical about it? As for the second part good idea, any ideas on what type of business could be started and where the capital to get that business off the ground can be obtained?
