This answer came up in a question a bit ago...
Can someone explain it to me?
2006-10-11 13:38:29 · 18 answers · asked by angk 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What I'm saying is, I don't get how sin=kid can't walk.
For the record, I'm not here looking for something that agrees with *my* beliefs; I just want something to explain the concept. There are a few answers here that are helping already...
2006-10-11 13:46:57 · update #1
In other words, I realize this question is best explained from a Christian perspective, which I don't follow--but I can take on the perspective long enough and see form that point of view on order to get an answer that follows logically within that framework.
In other words--I'm here to learn! Because this one is throwing me...
2006-10-11 13:53:36 · update #2
because we live in a fallen world, bad things (like people being crippled) happen. see, according to the Christian religion, the world was perfect before we chose to turn to sin. when we sinned, the world was no longer the perfect paradise that it once was. Jesus once healed a blind man (story found in John 9) and the religious leaders of that day asked if it was the blind man who had sinned or his parents that had sinned to make this man born blind. i believe that since we live in a fallen world, it is not because of a specific sin by a specific person that causes illness -- it is the general nature of the fallen world that we live in. but God's glory can still be seen through the fallenness (as in this John 9 story). hope this wasn't too confusing. email me if you want more clarification!
2006-10-11 13:53:50 · answer #1 · answered by truth seeker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has in the past taken out his wrath on certain people. Generally speaking God does not cripple people, or cause tornadoes, or plane crashes and so on. However, God did remove his grace from this earth when Adam sinned. We live in a fallen world. Things go wrong because there is no protective grace for us to live under. Before the fall of man there was no evil, no disease, no pain, no trouble. Since sin has entered the world we have been going downhill. And we will continue to get worse and worse until the end. Which, may be sooner than later.
2006-10-11 20:47:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many of the innocent are punished for the sins of the majority. All of the countries that are suffering from starvation, poverty,and things of this sort are countries that refuse to accept God. Birth defects,etc. cannot be explained as far as the will of God is concerned. Who can claim to know the mind of God concerning all things? The best you can do is to believe, accept Him into your heart, and live for Him to the best of your abilities. Then ask forgiveness for your shortcomings. I do know that even the apostles healed the crippled in the book of Acts, through the power of God. How many churches could do that today?
2006-10-11 20:52:18 · answer #3 · answered by Darryl L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being crippled does not mean that you sinned. Sometimes it's what your parents did or you grandparents did. And it's not always about sin either, sometimes things happen in life and the Lord may take his covering off of you and allow the devil to move in. This is just his way of seeing if you will continue to believe in him and continue to praise him in the good and the bad. In John 9:1-3, there was a man that was born blind and one of the disciples ask did he or his parents sin to make the man be born blind. And Jesus said neither this man not his parents sinned, but the works of God should be revealed in him. If the man hadn't been born blind, Jesus couldn't have healed him and the man wouldn't receive Jesus or believe he is the Messiah and praise him. Sometimes things happen in our life and its just God using the pain to prepare us for our destiny. If you don't go through, and this applies to disease and sickness, Jesus can't heal us or deliver us or save us. How can we give him the praise and edify his name and tell somebody about his goodness and is healing power if it didn't happen to us.
2006-10-11 21:14:45 · answer #4 · answered by Singingmama 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of reasons that people end up crippled(or ill)...sin can come into it (and it's not always our sin but someone else's ie. drunk driver involved in a hit and run, my friend Danny being born with aids due to mom not using condoms even though she was a prostitute and pregnant, or birth defects from a baby's mom using cocaine), or to bring God glory such as the man blind from birth that Jesus healed and my friend Gabby who is "catatonic" ,blind and was thought to be deaf but was found to be able to hear after the family caring for him talked to him daily as if he could...God does not cause these things but does use them to glorify Himself every opportunity that they occur... the question is are we willing to see it(and Him) and let Him be glorified...for God is not just good, GOD IS LOVE...and not just love He is the highest form of love that goes beyond all human understanding...we are His creation, are we willing to be vessels to allow Him to shine HIS LOVE upon this fallen world...
2006-10-11 21:15:51 · answer #5 · answered by zionikministries 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the book "a course in miracles" This is not a simple understanding that can be conveyed in a limited format like this one.
The course does a really great job of explaining this and many other things that religion expects us to believe on faith alone.
Its well worth the effort.
love and blessings Don
2006-10-11 20:43:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't go there...God creates people for Love. Yes, even those that the world say are horrible.
My older brother is disabled from birth, I never knew he was until I was older and the world explained that all big brothers were not like mine. I really did not know! No I was not stupid, just innocent.
He was great even with his differences.
2006-10-11 20:41:59 · answer #7 · answered by Lives7 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can't explain it to you.
One of my neighbors has a child with brain cancer, now in her spine... how did anyone's "sin" cause this? What did she do? What did her parents do? It makes no sense. Man, life is full of pain, and we try to comfort ourselves with these ideas that God did it, so it all has a meaning. But I don't think it has a ******* meaning.
2006-10-11 20:48:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible has jesus say to a cripple he healed "go and sin no more" implying that his sin crippled him. The OT says "God made every man, crippled and whole" or something like that. So there is a debate going on about where handicaps actually come from.
I say, if you can literally thank god that your baby was born "whole" how can you not blame him if it's born handicapped? If you can thank him for the sunshine, you can blame him for the rain.
2006-10-11 20:42:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Are you aware that you have just created a chemical reaction?
You have put Vinegar (your question) in with baking soda (the Answers community) and now carbon dioxide is being created (irrational christian answers!).
2006-10-11 20:40:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋