Assertion: prayer | /r/HasProperty | effective
Facets:
value: similarly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Galton hypothesized that if prayer was effective, members of the British Royal family would live longer, given that thousands prayed for their wellbeing every Sunday.
text: If prayer is to be effective, then it must be based on the reading of God’s words.
text: Learn exactly what prayer is and how to have an effective prayer life with significant results TODAY!
text: One essay on the topic from the "Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry" asserts that "The 'Sinner's Prayer' is, today, an effective tool of Satan to dupe people into believing they are saved when they are not".
text: All this proves that your prayers have been effective.
text: While the evidence is mixed, some scientific evidence suggests that prayer is effective at making people more relaxed and attentive.
text: He hypothesized, partly as satire, that if prayer was effective, members of the British Royal Family would live longer than average, given that thousands prayed for their well-being every Sunday, and he prayed over randomized plots of land to see if the plants would grow any faster, and found no correlation in either case.
text: Our prayers are effective when we request things that are in God's will.
text: There is no doubt that God commands us to pray and that prayer is effective.
text: We also recognize that prayer is only effective because it is God who answers it.
text: First, prayer may be effective in helping humans cultivate friendship with God, as we communicate with God in this way.
text: Philosophers usually assume that a prayer is effective if and only if God brings about the thing requested because of the prayer, so that had the prayer not been offered, the thing in question would not have occurred.
text: So if you pray to God for rain tomorrow and it does rain tomorrow, this all by itself is not enough to say that your prayer for rain was effective—it must also be the case that God actually brought about the rain at least in part because of your prayer.
text: If it would have rained anyway, without your prayer for rain, then it doesn’t seem that your prayer for rain was effective.
text: It is worth noting, in this section, that some philosophers have argued that not only does it make sense to pray for the future if God exists, but also it makes sense to pray for the past as well—such prayers could be effective, depending on the extent of God’s knowledge.
text: For example, given the way we have described effective petitionary prayer, it could be possible for a prayer for something to have happened yesterday to be effective, as long as the thing in question actually did happen yesterday.
text: So defenders of middle knowledge and timeless eternity can say that prayers for the past might be effective (but open theists, it seems, cannot say this: for more on this question, see Timpe 2005).
text: And third, the prayer must be effective.
text: The prayer of faith is effective when you:
text: Is my prayer effective?
text: But are there any or many people of faith who also believe that prayers called forth by a doubting scientist will be similarly effective?