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Originally Posted by Cheese
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A quick skim, but it doesn't say that God MUST answer. It might be a definition thing, but it seems there's a difference between hearing your request and answering them. It doesn't have the complete connection that if God hears, he will answer. There are lots of limitation on whether or not God would even hear a prayer though.
If (and that's an if) that's a comprehensive analysis on the Bible's listed statements on God answering prayer, I think there's reasonable doubt in thinking that we could accurately determine existence of God purely by a prayer's answered type of measurement. Now of course, that's something that may be lost with time too. Maybe in the original language and in the original context, these two concepts were more connected. I'm not well read enough to find or understand an original version of the Bible though. If someone like that is around, that'd be an interesting topic to talk about.