Assertion: petitionary prayer | /r/HasProperty | effective
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text: What would it mean to say that a petitionary prayer to God had been effective?
text: If God is both immutable and impassible, then it seems that no petitionary prayers are effective.
text: Given the way that we have characterized effective prayer above, though, this approach seems to deny that petitionary prayers are effective, so it would not solve the problem at hand.
text: If God knows the future in all of its detail, then it seems that there is no room for petitionary prayers to be effective: either the thing requested in prayer is something that God already knows will be done, or it isn’t, and either way, it looks like the prayer can make no difference.