Do you think God answers your payers?

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Re: Do you think God answers your payers?

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About lottery, if one prays and wins. Yes this could be from God as well. Why not?

God may still grant you something which he does not like.

God gives power to evil people, God provides means to people to brew wine, God gave free will to hman being, God let Shaitaan go loose (till end of his freedom)...etc. etc.

And yes God may not like lottery or gambling, he may grant the wish...two plausible reasons can be cited:

1- Test the person what this person would do after winning.

2- Punish the person for knowingly asking something wrong.
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The point again is how would you know if its God is doing things or they are happening by chance?

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You said Action always= equal result. Big difference. Why did you change?
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I did & that was a typo, but according to Newton 3rd law of motion "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" fyi.

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You bought one ticket with small amount of money, but won the whole lottery.

Here, action does not equal the result.
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The amount of money has nothing to do with action of me buying a ticket (its action vs result/buying/not buying. Winning is a 3rd independent variable). Similarly, if I spend million dollars on lottery tickets that does not guarantee me a winning ticket either.

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You said it can't be both.

How about it can be neither?

You know even a coin may not give you head or tail result.

So in that case chance is not really 50/50.

Try throwing a coin on sand. The coin may land on sand vertically.

Neither head, nor tail. :)
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You taking about probability & a not chance. See article post above for the diff.

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I think recognizing the limit is being humble. You don't think so?
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No, not really. Being humble means not being arrogant & there is no point being arrogant when you can't control circumstances of your life.

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If a person feels that his or her prayer is heard by God.

How can you prove it is not heard by God but merely a chance?
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Simple, I can prove that things can happen by chance. Can you prove that God actually answers prayers?

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Re: Do you think God answers your payers?

I asked how do you know things do not occur by God's will and occur by chance?

According to those who believe in God being the ruler of universe and controller of the event (directly or indirectly by giving natural properties to universe),
anything can be asked and be granted through prayer.

You may not believe that, but you cannot prove God had nothing to do with what you call an event or action occurred by 'chance'.

Above, Queen-24 said something.

And you say something else.

Both are matter of beliefs.

One believes prayer are heard by God, other say its not, its by chance.

*There is no way you can prove or disprove anything here.

Sine you are attacking a belief but hold a belief yourself.
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Now to Newton's law:

I wish you had stuck to the typo.

I already refuted action always=equal result. This is based on the topic which you began.

The topic is about events in lives of people and prayer. Not science or scientific laws.

Hence Newton's law does not apply to events in human lives and prayer being heard.

BTW: I cannot believe I am explaining this to you. :)

Lastly, the difference in chance and probability.

When you remove mathematical calculation, it is chance, when you apply some mathematics to events, it is probability.

But in day to day English word chance is used for 50/50 probability...like in the example of coin.

But the discussion is not about semantics here, I see you have not answered where you said only two possibilities can occur.

Yes, for the most part something to occur can have 50/50 chance but I simply gave you example that a third possibility can be there.

Essentially what I have said that in the events of people's lives, for example, if one prays for the lottery, and lottery is won, that maybe by chance or by prayer was heard.

No one can prove or disprove how it happened.