If You Pray, No Matter the Outcome, God Answered Your Prayer

An anonymous Christian’s comment on a Christian blog: My brother had pancreatic cancer, stage 4. His doctor told him he had three months. My mom took him to a cancer specialist in Seattle. He said that there was almost ZERO hope for him, but agreed to try chemo to try and shrink the tumor enough to perform something called a Whipple Procedure. My brother was NOT “into God.” It was my MOM who prayed incessantly. Lo and behold, the tumor DID shrink enough to be dealt with surgically. The doctor told my mom that he could understand the PATIENT praying and overcoming, a “mind over matter” thing, but admitted that there HAD to be something Divine at work, in this case, as, and I’m quoting here, “This (the chemo) just DOESN’T work,” that he had done the chemo to give my mom hope. My brother had already given up.

I realize prayer doesn’t always render the outcome prayed for, but one way or another, God’s will is done, and in the end is understood by the person of faith…

Gary: Christians often use “terminal cancer cures” as evidence that prayers to their god, Jesus the Christ, work. But Christians are not the only people who occasionally recover from “terminal” cancer. The fact is that in rare cases, people of all religions and even atheists sometimes recover from terminal cancer. Are all these rare cancer recoveries due to the actions of Jesus or due to random chance? So, did Jesus answer the above Christian mother’s prayer or was her son’s recovery a coincidence?

Notice, however, the Christian’s final comment (paraphrase): Prayer doesn’t always result in the desired outcome, but either way, God’s will is done.

What?? If no matter what happens after you pray, you claim that your God’s will was done, how can anyone ever disprove that your God did not answer your prayer; that your God does not exist? You have invented a fail-proof belief system, my Christian friend. You are operating under an illogical delusion.

Even this Christian seems to admit that Jesus answers prayer in the affirmative no better than random chance. He almost seems to say, “We got lucky!”

Christians learn over time not to ask Jesus for anything “big”. They ask Jesus to bless their food and to keep their children safe. Rarely anything bigger than that. They never ask Jesus to reattach a severed leg or put back together someone blown into a million pieces by a bomb. Nope. Jesus told his followers that if they pray for anything in his name, including prayer to move a mountain, he would do it. When was the last time you heard a Christian pray for something as spectacular as moving a mountain? They don’t. They don’t pray to Jesus for the really big stuff because they know that the chances of Jesus answering those prayers are slim to none.

Prayer doesn’t work. Anyone using an ounce of common sense or evaluating individual “healing” claims with critical thinking skills should be able to see that.

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