How demeaning and hurtful that would be to someone who has followed God faithfully and had similar, if not worse, tragedies what recieved no devine intervention?
I guess you'll pull some religious mumbo jumbo out of your azz as an answer, but to me it shows that it's people who label regular acts of chance, the work of God.
2006-12-21 09:30:22 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Exactly right YDontcha. We give to much credit to a being what doesn't exist, then we give to our own race.
2006-12-21 09:37:16 · update #1
I agree
2006-12-21 09:31:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Don't YOU understand it's a matter of belief, of faith? Even if you saw a miracle, something no one else could explain but by God, you would deny it.
I can understand "someone who has followed God faithfully" yet experienced tragedy without "divine intervention" feeling alone and even bitter. Everyone asks, "why me?" at some point.
But the truth is God doesn't owe us anything. It's pretty arrogant to say, "God, I deserve better than this!"
How do you know what you - or anybody - deserve? Because you're a good person? Maybe by your own standards, you are. But maybe your standards aren't the ones to follow.
2006-12-21 17:36:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disagree- God has His way of doing things. Many have miracles and just do not have enough faith to realize that they infact come from God. They deny it as 'regular acts of chance' God is good there is no darkness in Him, all that is good comes from God. God does not create the sickness and tragedy-man does, with his self made false teachings and lack of faith.
2006-12-21 17:35:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some events are chance.
Some events are miracles.
Sometimes God lets people suffer.
Sometimes he blesses them.
Sometimes they are protected so that they dont need a miracle.
Just because God gave my brother a miracle...does not mean that I get to have one. It definately does not mean that I deserve one. It doesnt even mean that my brother deserved one.
If you believe in the bible....then read Romans 8 and 9. God is in control. Even if you dont believe it or dont care...or your upset and feel hurt and offended. How we feel and what we think does not structure truth.
2006-12-21 17:34:28 · answer #4 · answered by aarondarling 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a great example of this in Richard Dawkins 'Root of All Evil?': he visits a holy place in the south of France (I think) where people go to be healed by god.
Dawkins asked one of the guys who was running the place how many people they had a year and how many years people had been going there, it totalled a few tens of thousands. Then he asked how many had been miraculously healed: about 80.
2006-12-21 17:54:05 · answer #5 · answered by The Yeti 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian, everything in my life is God's will. He is with me all the time and that is what matters. I have a faithful God that pours down his spirit on me to comfort me on those hard days. About divine intervention........we always have it! God bless.
2006-12-21 17:39:56 · answer #6 · answered by Miss k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
14. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:14 (New International Version)
2006-12-21 17:34:37 · answer #7 · answered by Chef Bob 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dunno....seems to me, if I was the doctor who played the part in curing you of your disease or malaise, I would feel demeaned and hurt if you proclaimed your healing a miracle...
2006-12-21 17:34:25 · answer #8 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Seeing something as a miracle, rather than just another event in life is something those in need of miracles to support their faith, rather than just having faith for the sake of it.
2006-12-21 17:39:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if a saint can grow his hand back, then maybe the problem isn't how good you are, but how much faith you have.
2006-12-21 17:33:42 · answer #10 · answered by BigPappa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all things work out for the good of all those who love GOD.
2006-12-21 17:33:13 · answer #11 · answered by jbokande 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋