The Bible says the prayers of those who think
God cannot help or will not are useless
The Bible at James 1 says the man who doubts cannot expect to receive anything
from the Lord for he is devious and erratic. In other words, he is trying to
trick God. If the doubter can’t expect an answer for prayer the sinner can
expect less. Praying then is blowing your own trumpet. It is saying you don’t
doubt and/or that you don’t sin. It’s only for hypocrites.
The Bible sees doubt as more than just mistrusting God in your head. Faith is
seen as belief in action which means that each sin can in its own way be
called a doubt.
Jesus famously said, contradicting James, that prayer can move a mountain from
where it is and transplant it into the sea if you have a little faith, that is
faith as big as a mustard seed. Some believers say he didn't mean weak faith
but the unshakeable faith of one that barely knows anything about God. The
faith is small, a mustard seed, in content but strong in force. Can you really
have faith in something you hardly know? It would be better faith than that of
a person who does know God but who has weak faith!
So Jesus taught the absolute necessity of faith for getting prayers answered.
“What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and
ye shall have them” – Jesus, Mark 11:24 King James Bible.
Many people with very weak faith and who are full of doubts report cures at
the hands of healers. I am not saying the cures have anything to do with God.
What I am saying is that it is bigotry to say that prayers are answered
according to faith for, if there is a God, who knows? So James that is you
told! Your saying that is just as much a boast about yourself as it is for you
to say that Jesus is the only way to God like your Christian brethren do for
that is saying, “I’m great and better than you Buddhists and other pagans for
I know something you don’t – how to pray and prayer is the only way to
Heaven”. Jesus said he was the way and the truth and the life and no man could
come to God except by him (John 14:6) so his prayers did not gain him much
genuine virtue either. Prayers and sacraments just give false hope.
Jesus suspected that prayer was hypocrisy and useless when he said sincere
people go out of their way to do it in private. You cannot tell how well
prayer is answered if people hide their prayer life from you. Jesus was trying
to prevent people from seeing the futility of prayer. His knowledge of this
uselessness still didn’t stop him deceitfully advocating prayer.
Jesus criticised the pagans who prayed tonnes thinking that they would be
heard for their many words (Matthew 6:7). So, quality matters and quantity
does not. It follows that if one person prays for the world to be holy that
prayer will do and is as good as a billion billion similar prayers. Yet
Christianity blames the falls of priests and religious into sin on people not
praying enough for them. God would find that unspeakably offensive for it
accuses him of neglecting them because other people didn’t ask him to help
them. It contradicts the stuff about quality alone being what counts. (All
apparitions of the Virgin Mary and the saints and Jesus make the same error.)
It is blasphemous to order people to always pray like the Bible does (1
Thessalonians 5:17) for when one prayer does there is no need for any more.
God would not order people to do what they don’t need to do on pain of sin and
punishment if he is love. But the Church still says it's a sin not to pray
daily and to go to Church regularly!
Jesus told the parable of the corrupt judge (Luke 18:1-8). The gospel says the
parable is about the importance of not losing heart. In it the judge refuses
to help a woman and doesn’t care about her. But she asks for his help many
times and he gets scared and then gives her what she wants. Then Jesus says
that this shows that God will help those who call out to him day and night.
Christians deny it but it cannot be denied by honest people that Jesus was
saying you have to ask God a lot of times to get his attention. The context
proves it. Jesus then was turning God into something no better than a man.
Some Son of God then! Jesus was a fraud. His miracles were not genuine for his
doctrine was false.
All doubt so even if there is a God to given an answer to prayer, it does not
follow that anybody's prayers have been answered. They only think they have.
If a doubter asks for x and x happens then the doubter is going to imagine his
prayers work and thus doubters will be praying and setting innocent people up
for a disappointment. That x happened is only a coincidence even if there
is a God who answers prayer for he does not entertain doubters.