What was God thinking when he decided to create cancer?

Answer 1

God didn't create cancer, He created a world that was perfect. When sin entered the world things started dying and decaying and getting old and diseased. It wasn't God, it was satan and man.

Answer 2

I'm studying Zoroastrianism right now, and just for some interesting information, they believe that God did not create cancer. They believe that Ahura Mazda (Wise Lord) created all which is good in the world, but then Angra Mainyu (an evil god) then came along and created all the bad stuff. So the world is now in a sort of cosmic war to try to regain the purity of Ahura Mazda's original creation.

I don't see it this way personally, but it is an interesting perspective anyway.

In my opinion, WE created cancer, possibly. I think that we created it by our actions. I see physical matter as an extension of spiritual. So it is kind of like a result of karma that cancer comes about. This does not mean it cannot effect someone who is otherwise innocent. But I do think that perhaps it is humans who brought it into the world, in a way. Just a thought. Really, no one knows.

Answer 3

God did not create cancer. You must understand that Original Sin was not primarily our fault in one sense and is our fault in another. In Genesis everything that was created was pronounced good by God. This means everything was and functioned as it should. Yet, when we decided to live life without God (Original Sin) we decided to use and manipulate creation as we wished. And so, in some way somehow we misused creation in our own hands and created cancer. Did we not make cigarrettes (a means to creating cancer within us all)? And so, it was not God who created such things, but us.
Now cancer is not only introduced by cigarettes, but also through other means that are beyond our control. When Original Sin entered our reality it affected all of creation including the cosmos. And so, because God left creation to us still (as was His original plan when He made Adam a steward of creation), He allowed us to us it without His guidance, which is our decision. So, you see God respects our decisions.
May the Lord bless and keep you. May He let the light of His face shine upon you.
God's and your beast of burden
Fr. john

Answer 4

Um well u need to remember that when Adam sinned, it brought out all the nasty things in life. It rought out all the sin. Every bad thing like death and sickness and sin entered the world. People always say, "why did God let thsi happen or why did He create this if He didn't want us to do it?". But the thing is, people keep forgetting that those thigns came into the world right after Adam and Eve first sinned. It says somewhere in a verse in Romans, that when sin was entered into the Earth, thigns like gays and lesbians came on. Cz they are sins that people, should not be following. Poeple keep saying if God didn't want gays then why are there gays inte h world. Well to answer that, since the first sin was made, EVRYTHING bad that is against God came to Earth. Thats why we haev sickness and deatha dn sins in life. So please stop blaming it on God for why people are this or that. Or why this or that is in the world.

Answer 5

I have cancer. I'm 22 years old and I finish my last chemo tomorrow. (friday)

God didn't say to me "poof", you have cancer, now i'm gonna laugh and watch and see what it does to you. What he did was prepare me physically and spiritually for this battle that I'd have to fight. God knew that I'd be diagnosed with cancer, so before that happened, he gave me strength, courage and tons of people who could love on me when I would really need it.

It's like cancer is a wall in my life. God knew that I was going to have to bust through it in order to continue with the amazing life he has for me, so he prepared me. He gave me stubbornness, a goofy sense of humor, and a really good understanding of personally having God as your friend. These things are like a big ramp that God built in front of the cancer wall. This ramp gave me speed and helped to carry me clean through the cancer wall, and even though busting through that wall still hurt, it went a lot smoother and seemed faster than if I had just tried to go it by myself.

In short, I would not trade my cancer experience for anything, if it meant that I would lose the amazing things God has done in and through my life.

No, God didn't create cancer, but when we have to face it in our life or in the lives of those we love, he offers real strength and power to those who ask him.

Answer 6

Once again- Since the fall of Adam and Eve the Lord said there would be diseases and ailments brought about in the world...this is one of the things that will occur throughout time...and it has. Many things have.

Its good to know though, that those who Love the Lord God, can seek Him to heal their diseases and help them through it. God uses doctors. And God strengthens the faith of many through these types of illnesses.

Answer 7

Cancer is an after-effect of sin. Our bodies get sick and die now. Adam and Eve would have lived forever without sickness and disease, had they not disobeyed God. All their descendants would have also. This system of things which is lying in the power of the wicked one will soon end, and along with it sickness, disease, & death will end also and people will be brought back to perfection.

Answer 8

God did not create cancer any more than he created child abuse. These things are part of our fallen nature.

One of the great paradoxes of our faith is that God allows us to suffer because of His love for us, not in spite of it. In Biblical times, suffering was thought to be directly related to one’s actions. If someone was wealthy, it was a reward for his righteousness, but if someone suffered, it was a punishment for his evil deeds. The story of Job tells us that this idea is not true. Job was an upright man who suffered greatly, and according to the book of Job, he did not deserve to suffer. Suffering is not a punishment that each person receives in direct proportion to his own sins; but rather, it is a result of original sin, something that affects all of humanity without exception.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column.php?n=48
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_11021984_salvifici-doloris_en.html
http://www.scripturecatholic.com/suffering.html
This sin of Adam’s was not your ordinary sin. This was a sin that affected all mankind forever. This sin changed the course of human history. It did not just affect Adam personally; it also affected his human nature—which means it affected our nature, since we inherited it from him. Adam and Eve were created with immortal bodies. They knew no suffering, they knew no disease, they knew no death. Before the fall, their bodies would not have been subject to cancer or to Alzheimer’s disease or heart attacks or muscular dystrophy or sickle cell anemia or any one of a host of other diseases. But ours are.
http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2005/0502fea5.asp
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Answer 9

We inhabit corruptible flesh.
So we must deal with being mortal, remember that we separated ourselves from god. It wasn't him who betrayed us.
We walked away from his will and into a world where evil exists.

Answer 10

What goes around comes around.