What is your faith or religious status? I am curious to see if those with these conditions or illnesses are more likely to be of a faith or less likely. Just a curiosity.
Peace Be With You,
Debra
2006-08-16 02:03:19 · 9 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank you!
2006-08-16 02:10:10 · update #1
Here is the heart of the matter. I believe that suffering can be purifying and strengthen ones faith. Just my opinion personal and professional.
2006-08-16 02:12:37 · update #2
I'm an atheist, and I live with diabetes and arthritis, does this help you any?
2006-08-16 02:09:16 · answer #1 · answered by lori_1104 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I try to follow Christ, am Christian !
I have been diagnosed with M.S. about 8 years ago,(multiple sclerosis). I was supposed to be in a wheel chair by now, but still doing pretty good. I work regularily and everything else too. I think you want to know if my faith has anything to do with my illness , and I guess i have to say yes, because I was really bad at first in the hospital. My vision was gone and I couldnt walk on my own and there was other stuff to, and this nurse came to ask me if she could pray for me and i said sure, i mean who wouldnt in that condition. Illnesses have a great way of humbling a person, we think we are all tough and stuff, but really we are weak like pea soup when it comes down to it. So anyway i said sure to the nurse and she prayed for me, a kind of prayer that i have never heard before, but anyway its not like a lightening bolt came from the skies or anything like that, actually i got worse if anything for the first year. I had my drivers license removed, couldnt work and the future seemed pretty dark for me. Before all this started, I had this buisness going and it was starting to takeoff and things were going well in the other areas of my life too, so this was a huge blow to who I was and everything that i had ever wanted in life, I was crushed.
2006-08-16 09:29:27 · answer #2 · answered by Catt 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Suppose only people in ill health are supposed to answer you, but it's not against the rules to answer any question. We are in excellent spiritual and mental condition, thanks be.
People of a religious and some of the medical community are always trying to draw some correlation between religious faith and good health. Scientists recognize that spirituality is not always religious.
Plus, your curiosity does not consider the people who enjoy good health who are not religious about a lot but healthy practices and living a decent life. So your little study is skewed to your point of view.
Blessed be.
2006-08-16 09:21:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was tested for juvenile arthritis because my knee would occasionally lock up, but the doctors determined that my knee was just very slightly malformed and would likely always be like this. I'm lucky, it seems like all my relatives on either side of the family have some serious problem ie alcoholism, smoking related diseases, cancers, bi-polar disease, drug addiction. Really, with everything that I could have gotten, I'll take my knee. I'm an atheist, but curiously enough most of my afflicted relatives are catholics or something.
2006-08-16 09:13:41 · answer #4 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have two illnesses. One is sleep apnea (non-surgical, I use a C-PAP machine). The other is clinical depression.
I am a born-again Christian and since my acceptance of Christ I have found that my depression is more controlled and reasonable. God has a purpose for the depression by the way, He is revealing it slowly to me and I'm excited to find out the scoop so I can feel better all the time.
Hope that answers the question for ya. In His Love and Service...Mister Bob
2006-08-16 09:10:30 · answer #5 · answered by Mister Bob the Tomato 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheist.
I live with chronic Thyroid disease for which I need hormone replacement daily. I also have Hypertension as Heart Disease runs on the paternal side of my family. I also have a number of conditions for which I do not receive treatment (because there aren't any that will correct it) which causes infertility.
2006-08-16 09:18:54 · answer #6 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have chronic bronchitis, Type II Diabetes, chronic arthritis, high blood pressure, and am on anti-depression tablets. I am a Buddhist, but a lazy lapsed one who never does any spiritual practice these days. I haven't seen my Lama in years, I'm naughty.
2006-08-16 09:11:58 · answer #7 · answered by V 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Suffering can be purifying but it can also crush you. If you offer your suffering to God in union with Christ's passion, it can really transform you like a constant prayer.
btw We are all called to ease the suffering of our neighbour.
2006-08-16 09:21:36 · answer #8 · answered by zorro 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do. Christian. Makes no difference other than you stand a better chance of a cure or better life with a chronic disease if you have faith.
'nuff said?
2006-08-16 09:10:31 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. Peachy® 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋