Faith writes:
I'm interested in the subject of answered prayer and want to choose examples where it seems clear that is what happened.
What you want to do is exactly what you did when you were sure you'd be raptured.
It's motivated thinking and confirmation bias - over-inflating the importance of hits, discarding misses and refusing to critically evaluate anything.
You're also trying to tell us that everyday, common events are somehow miraculous - that's just daft.
The efficacy of prayer has been properly tested; it doesn't work.
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