There is proof, it's just that many people don't believe it to be proof. I had a religious experience about a month ago. I was in Madrid for a thing called World Youth Day (a catholic youth festival), with about 2.5 million people, and the Pope. The main bit of it was held in a massive airfield about 10km from the city, you were supposed to walk there, and take about 1 and a half hours. It took us 5; we were walking in 43 degrees celsius with no water stops, three members of our group were almost hospitalised by heatstroke. We got there about half 6, and the gates into the field were shut. The Pope arrived, there was no way for us to get in. A massive storm started, is was lashing it down and really high winds, and it was night by then. People were rushing out, so there was room for us to go in, with this huge storm raging around us. We stood in one of the passages, and the Blessed Sacrament (a communion host) was taken out by the Pope for adoration. The rain stopped, and the wind fell to a cool breeze. The storm had been stopped. After prayer, we found somewhere safe to lie down. All of this is absolutely true, every single one of the two and a half milliion people in the field that evening would tell you that they had experienced, though in a slightly trivial way, the power of God.
Weather eh? One minute its lashing it down and the next its glorious sunshine. I mean is that proof of anything other than the weather. The timing of the prayers is purely coincidence and nothing more.
you need to explore the nature and types of faith fear as a form of faith is the weakest form A lot of people lose faith because they have a bad experience. EG you lose a loved one, and have a htred for all things 'god' What often gets lost is that were you a believer or followed his commandments/rules whatever? If not then why complain?
It's a hell of a coincidence that the biggest storm I've ever seen stopped at the exact moment when the prayers started. You would understand if you'd have been there.
I would be worried if you did. Infact I would be intrigued. You would surely be some sort of secret experiment. I will say that you as in you the human evolved from apes over thousands and thousands of years though.
So if God controls the weather, why did he set you all up in a storm in the first place? ...to test you, right?
Here is a story about the power of prayer. There was a guy from NI recently who went on holiday and had an accident. The doctors told his friends and family that he had zero brain activity and he would never wake up from the coma. They were preparing to turn off the life support machine later that day and his family went away to make the arrangements to get his body back home and for his funeral. When they came back they were told that remarkably he had shown some improvement and he is now responding to stimuli and squeezing is partner's hand. If I choose to believe that this is possible through his friends, family and community back home praying for his well being, who am I hurting? The medical community had given up on him and he is showing signs of recovery.
