Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
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God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith and if our request is in accordance with His will He will hear us.