You made a post essentially questioning how God could deal with or reconcile billions of prayers coming in 24/7 saying "I always wonder how they are all kept separate in order to make the decisions for any actions to be taken with regard to each one of them."
Lon made the point that in fact most of those prayers will all be in harmony with each other because by and large Christians are all singing from the same hymn sheet and they will be praying for the same outcomes. In this respect all those prayers coming in aren't really that separate, they are many prayers all broadly speaking asking for the same things.
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None of that however addresses the points made in the OP which is that God's will must be done not man's will and thus if God controls everything and nothing happens except that he specifically allows it to happen, then most prayers are in fact opposing God's will as the majority of people pray for "things" and "outcomes" that are in opposition to what they see happening around them. For example if a family member is dying of illness they will be praying for that illness to be taken away when in reality they should be accepting that God specifically allowed that family member to have that terminal illness in the first place. That was His will. This praying for the illness to be removed is praying against God's will.
It is a difference between decretive and prescriptive. You have a fatalist view but relationship (we aren't isolated beings) causes interaction (prescriptive).
It's a massive dilemma that most Christians aren't thinking about rationally because they're too tied up in their comfy cocoon of religious indoctrination.
You genuinely assume too much. Your egocentric lens and thus 'truth' is biased and forged about as hard as steel. It'll go unheeded likely, but listen more. Assert less. You may imagine you've got it all figured out but you've already told me you don't. Entertain you aren't correct here?
Once you allow yourself to believe that God controls everything and that HE PERMITS everything to happen (meaning he has the power to stop or prevent any thing from happening) then you have to equally accept that God is permitting peadophiles to sexually abuse innocent children, that God is permitting wicked people to conduct genocide around the world, or the sex trafficking of women from young children to adults and so on.
All theologians wrestle with this. It isn't novel. Did you go to any of them prior to your issue here? "Out" isn't the only viable answer, even if it seems to work in your own mind. I have an ability to change these statistics slightly. All of us together would have an incredible impact. God can, as you say, step in, but His desire isn't to burn the whole earth. God has every right to stop atrocity and has done so a good many times. You call Him despot for it, but think! If you were God, you'd do what you could. Ultimately Jesus was His answer. I've no idea why it took so long, I'm not God and I don't second-guess Him (any longer). He's proven over and over again that He doesn't desire any of this. The analogy of the wheat and tares is all about not losing even one. Once you know somebody, you can listen to them explain their actions. If that being is only good, only light, only loving, you (like me) might begin to cut slack and simply listen. You aren't there yet, you walked away before any reasonable explanation could be given.
Our food supplies are now under attack by greedy globalist elites, this is being permitted by God. Our human health is being destroyed on multiple fronts and God is permitting this also. At what point do you hold a being accountable for their actions or indeed lack of action?
You assume, because of stories you don't understand, that God doesn't care, is a tyrant. I looked at the same exact passages but wrestled and wrestled hard. I started with Jesus. I worked backwards. Do I get all of it? No, but I've found Him trustworthy. Sometimes the answer from my parents was "Because I said so." That was the end of the story and they rightly played to their authority. While I didn't like it, it was true: They made decisions as best as they could and by appointment had the right to say "none of your business." God didn't explain everything in scripture. He did say the people were doing attestable things, not your run of the mill bad things, but things like you add here in scripture. At that time sins were hard to break to the third and fourth generation. Whatever was happening in the O.T. is recorded in other histories (I looked). Those things were detestable, I'd likely have burned all of Rome if I were God. Sodom and Gomorrah was very much the same "What if there are ten righteous?" If you make an assumption that statistically it isn't possible for whole peoples to be destroyed as wicked, down to women and their children, you've imported our contemporary values
by mistake. We all have knee-jerk reactions. We saw Putin gas poison children and cried 'foul.' We should, but if that figure is portrayed as Holy, Loving, not willing that any should perish, such
should inform our opinions. "I might have missed something" should be one of our first thoughts. You haven't entertained or thought it through, nor given benefit of doubt. I asked you to 'think.' I'm asking again.
