Prayers

Dear Friend,
Here is my opinion,
I think Prayers provide a sense of spiritual peace and comfort. Prayers offer relief when we can't do anything about a problem. But Prayers never produce anything physical.
From my personal experience and my many failures and few successes, I think it is just simple math; 1+1=2.
If you do nothing, nothing will happen. If you do something, something will happen as a result. If you add 1 to 1, you get 2. If you add prayers to 1, you get 1+prayers which is still a 1 in the physical world and never a 2.
A house will never miraculously build itself by praying. It must be constructed by people and materials with no mistakes so it wouldn't collapse. 
If you do not study Physics, you will fail a Physics test. If you pray all the time, Physics will never come to your brain.
We depend on begging God when it is out of our hands, when it is 50/50, or when we are unable to do it ourselves. If people work hard, and things go their way, they say our prayers worked. But, when things do not go their way, they say "God works in mysterious ways." only to make themselves feel better and justify the lack of hard work, working the wrong way, or the bad luck in some cases. This is why helpless societies rely more on praying than nations with freedom and equal fair opportunities.
You will notice that societies depended strongly on prayers rather than honest hard work do not advance and have higher crime rates like Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, and even the United States. Atheist Nations which do not pray and just work hard are more advanced and have a lower crime rate like Sweeden, Norway, and Denmark for example. Peace

More Unsuitable and Contradicting Verses in the Bible

More Unsuitable and Contradicting Verses  in the Bible
1*Anyone had his testicle or penis removed for any reason like injury or cancer, should never enter the church!

Deuteronomy 23:1-2 New International Version (NIV) 1 "No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord."

2*Anyone was born out of wedlock, his children like orphans, or his children's children even to the 10th generation are not allowed to enter the church.

"No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, not even in the tenth generation."

3*If a man suspects his wife has cheated on him, he may take her to the priest and make her drink special water to abort the infant.

Numbers 5:11-31 The test of unfaithfulness, The suspected unfaithful woman drinks the bitter water which will cause abortion and death of the fetus if she was unfaithful.

4*If you look a woman's beauty and wished to have her or to marry her, you have committed adultery.

Matthew 5:28 "But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

5*Jesus came to bring fire and sword to the world, not peace. Jesus came to divide families, and to make people love him more than their fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters. 

Mathew 10:34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 and a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. 37 whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 

Luke 12:49 Jesus said, "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!" 

6*A woman must submit, be quite, never teaches, have no authority, or leadership over man.

1 Timothy 2:11-12 11 "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet."

7*A woman must wear a headscarf (like Muslim Hijab) to cover her head and hair.

1 Corinthians 11:5-15 "5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is the same as having her head shaved. 6 For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head."

8*The early church terrified its people into willingly giving their positions and punished who kept some money for themselves by death like Ananias and Sapphira.

Acts 5:5-10 "5 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. 6 Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him." 

"10 At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. 11 Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events."

Notice, there was no mention of witnesses to how they died. It says "she fell down at his feet and died" and "found her dead"

9*Did the priests buy the Field of blood, or did Judas? or did Judas hang himself or fell and his entrails gushed out?
In Mathew, Judas returned the 30 pieces of silver, hanged himself,  and the Priests bought the Field of Blood with it.
In Acts Judas bought the Field of Blood himself with the silver, fell and his intestine came out his body.

Matthew 27:3-8
"Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that he had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? You see to it!" Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself. But the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood." and they consulted together and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. Therefore that field has been called the field of blood to this day."
Acts 1:15-19
"And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (altogether the number of names was about a hundred and twenty), and said, Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus; "for he was numbered with us and obtained a part in this ministry." Now this man purchased a field with the wages of iniquity and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his entrails gushed out. And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem; so that field is called in their own language, Akel Dama, that is field of blood."

10*Did the men traveling with Saul hear the sound but not see the light or did they see the light but not hear the sound?
Acts 9 and 22 contradiction
Saul companions Hear but did not see or see but did not hear?
Acts 9:7 "7 The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone."
Acts 22:9 "9 My companions saw the light but did not hear the voice of the one who spoke to me." 

Science is not Voodoo

Science is not voodoo
Humans owe their well being to the hard work of scientists.
Science and experimentation are keeping the world going and advancing.
Science fixed the Ozone and saved us from a disaster.
Experimenting with vaccines saved us from plagues and mass deaths.
Experimenting with drugs helped Cure Hepatitis C and contain AIDS.
Science can save us from global warming and keep us from extinction.
Religious people, basically, do nothing, just pray, and leave it to God. When they do nothing, nothing will happen.
People thank God after scientists have actually helped them and they claim God is higher than science when experimenting fails. When science fails, it only means one more trial and error in the way to perfection.

It is impressive how people thank God for removing a brain tumor while a brilliant, well trained for years, hard-working surgeon and his team have actually done it themselves! If God is omnipotent, why can't he make a priest remove a brain tumor?
When prayers work because of science, people thank God, when prayers fail, they never blame God but say God works in mysterious ways! Prayers will work or fail simply based on the efficiency of the person doing the job.
It is simple: 1+1=2. If you need a 4, you must add a 2 to the left side of the formula. If you pray for years and never add the 2 yourself, you will never get a 4.