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Farrell Till wrote:

> 

> JEFF THE OTHER:

> 

> Jeff,

> Please pray that AIDS stops, that I and all the other

> atheists/errantists/baptists/catholics on the list become christian, and

> that no fatal automobile accidents happen in the US anymore.  According

> to Matthew 17:20 says that if your faith is great enough---and it should

> be for an enlightened, divinely inspired person---it will happen.

> Matthew 21:21-22 makes it even more clear:  If you believe, you will

> recieve whatever you ask in prayer.  This is identical with saying "If

> you do not recieve what you ask in prayer, you do not believe" because

> "B->A" is the same as "not A->not B", logically speaking.

> 

> So, get in your room, close the door, and pray (Matthew 6:6).  If you

> just ask it, everyone in the world can be a Christian tomorrow..  Well,

> unless you do not believe.

> 

> TILL

> I propose a prayer duel to settle the matter of whether prayer is in any

> sense efficacious.  Jeff will enlist the help of 10,000 Christians who will

> join him in fervent prayer that famine, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,

> floods, pestilence, disease, poverty, and wars will cease.  I, all by

> myself, will pray that famine, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods,

> pestilence, disease, poverty, and wars continue.  Then we will wait to see

> which prayer is "answered."

> 

> Farrell Till

> Skepticism, Inc.

> jftill@midwest.net


IAN

In all honesty Farrill, that is not a fair duel since you are both praying to the same 
God. I offerred a similar one to Roger Hutchinson except I offerred to k God. Needless 
to say, he wouldn't take me up on it.

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