Nuggets from "An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith" by Dave Hunt - Power of the MInd?

Nuggets from “An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith” by Dave Hunt – Power of the Mind?

It is irrational to believe that affirmations will cause anything to occur in the real world. What is the mechanism or universal law by which someone’s belief or affirmation controls the course of events? The power of one’s mind? The desire for which one prays or makes affirmations to bend events to one’s will almost inevitably involves factors that affect other people’s lives. Why should one person’s desires be imposed upon others? And what god or force would so readily accommodate individual passions?

Suppose several firmly held beliefs and affirmations of different individuals are in direct conflict with one another, as many of them inevitably must be. What then? Which one will this universal mechanism or law cause to occur? And, indeed, how can a mechanism or law decide anything? In fact, an impersonal force or principle cannot make choices or distinctions, so every affirmation would have to be granted.

Here we see a major problem with this theory: if unlimited power were made available to everyone, the result would not be peace and blessing but increased conflict between human egos, resulting in even greater chaos than before. Surely, if answers to prayer are to come, one would hope that a Supreme Intelligence that is just and impartial is in charge of the process.