The Alternative Factor

You never get a clean metaphor from Star Trek, but The Alternative Factor comes close.

The parallel universes don't consist of matter and anti-matter respectively, but one is the world as it is and the other the world as it should be and Lazarus' holy cause isn't rooted in the inability to deal with his ideal self, but reflects the desire of that which is to control its becoming.

The power of that which should be lies in the combination of God's attributes of being all good and all powerful, so that that which is always faces complete non-existence in the course of being replaced by that which should be.

By constructing a threshold Lazarus hopes to cause divine intervention at his will, whereas his ideal self understands that it's best to let the power of prayer reside in the individual weighing that which is against that which should be.

But then comes the Roddenberry perversion by asserting that no more divine interventions will occur when prayer is left to the individual, thus confirming Matthew 23:13 and John 11:11.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.