Then please enlighten me as to why I was told 15 years ago that I needed to be on dialysis, and in those 15 years I have had two sons that were not supposed to be possible? That I survived those years without dialysis? I prayed for God's assistance and it could only be His work. My doctors did not understand either as my kidneys had almost completely stopped functioning. God answers prayer my friend but not always as we wish it.
2006-10-02 08:16:56 · 29 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please explain what you think made this possible.
2006-10-02 08:17:27 · update #1
There have been many different doctors in different states over the years that have diagnosed the same thing so I am sure there is no mistake.
2006-10-02 08:29:02 · update #2
And I am not trying to FORCE anyone to believe but I do feel the need to counter the "Can you belive some people believe in prayer" question.
2006-10-02 08:30:02 · update #3
Personally, I don't believe that God answers our prayers, I believe that the state of prayer balances the energies in our bodies, inducing self healing. I also believe that praying for someone else works to calm the Chakric energy systems. Prayer is a good thing no matter how you look at it, you don't lose anything by praying if it is a part of your faith. It is a very humbling experience, and according to mystics the positive energies created have the power to heal. It is good to hear that it worked for you... it is so sad that so many people lash out in bitterness at this question. One more thing: prayer is invoked using love and compassion, two traits that the Buddhist teachings hold in very high regard:
“In the Buddhist tradition, compassion and love are seen as two aspects of same thing: compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness”
- The Dalai Lama -
2006-10-02 10:30:58 · answer #1 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People come on sites like and say their being alive is a miracle. Wrong! it is a selection effect. Some people live and some die, it is the most natural thing in the world. Now if a dead person were to come on this site, then that would be a miracle. But thus far it hasn't happened.
Repeated studies, show that nothing fails like prayer. There are more prayers made in Las Vegas than in any city it's size in the world. But the casinos still make a fortune. Prayer simply doesn't work and intellectually honest christians know it. Dishonest Christians just invent excuses to explain it. "You can't test god", "The person praying didn't have enough faith" etc.
2006-10-02 08:20:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It could be a miracle, you could have had a bad diagnosis or it was a temporary thing. I am not your god or a doctor so I have no clue.
My question to you is, why does it matter what others believe or disbelieve? You cannot make an unwilling horse drink water nor a person believe something they do not wish to believe.
If they examine their lives they might find their own personal miracles or they may choose to call it chance or luck or fate.... whose to say they are wrong and you are right?
You believe your way and let them believe their way. That's not so hard is it? Otherwise, in all your christian-ness your are judging another which by christian standards is a big no-no.
2006-10-02 08:25:37 · answer #3 · answered by mommakaye 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think maybe you were misdiagnosed perhaps? Science isn't infallible. Consider someone in the same situation as you, whose prayers were not answered? What made you better than them? (Not trying to offend you, but this is one of the classic prayer things that disturbs me) People that hear a plane is crashing, and everyone is praying for their loved one to survive... yet only a couple survive. Those few that survived, people proclaim "God heard our prayer and saved them." So did God ignore the rest of the prayers?
Obviously this is a bit of a sore point for me. Sorry if I came off a bit strong.
2006-10-02 08:22:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
How do you know that God didn't try to help you by having that doctor put you on dialysis?
How do you know that if you hadn't have prayed, the same exact thing would have happened?
How have I survived cancer 3 times, without ever praying a single day in my life?
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2006-10-02 08:29:28 · answer #5 · answered by C P R 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
well probability would have that 1 out of a certain amount of people are going to overcome certain odds. if your 99.99% likely to die, then .01% chance you live and you live. its not necessarily prayer. its all about statistics and probabilities.
if you do a random number generator, eventually the number will come up. for you have gotten the lucky number where as many havent. out of everyone someone is bound to be different. (we are all born with different features, and different chemical makeup, so why then is everyone under one category when some people have more immunity than others to certain things? not everyone is affected by a statistic.)
sadly i dont call your "miracle" an answered prayer, i call it a statistic or a chance of probability. an answered prayer or miracle would be something that doesnt have a chance of happening naturally. u regenerate a lost limb? come back alive without any outside influence (such as shock paddles or cpr) ? stuff like that.
2006-10-02 08:21:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
NO YOU DON'T. You think it, you do not understand it. There's a change. And for those who'd trouble to research fact somewhat, adding medical reviews funded by way of christians that evidently display that prayer has no final result, you would not think it, both. Peace.
2016-08-29 09:07:55 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of un-answered questions in the world. That doesn't mean that the truth is that "poof" God did it! That is simplifying things a bit, don't you think? My friend had a cancerous brain tumor at 20 and died at 21. I guess God answered my prayer but not always as I wished? Wait, I fail to see how my friend dying was any form of answering my prayer.
2006-10-02 08:23:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are right. Further proof is demonstrated by a group of Muslim terrorists who were all praying to Allah when they killed around 3000 people on 9/11/2001. Their prayers were certainly answered. I don't get why people scoff at something that is so obvious.
2006-10-02 08:19:15 · answer #9 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Debra, I believe quite strongly in the power of positive thinking, but I don't believe in the power of prayer. It's possible that they are both the same thing, bearing different labels. What you call it depends on what you believe.
2006-10-02 08:21:32 · answer #10 · answered by . 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋