If God doesn't intervene in our lives because of free will, why do so many people claim that miracles.....

Question

...have happened to them? For instance, "I was cured of (insert illness here) after I prayed to God" or "I didn't get on that plane (or get in that car); it was a sign from God. It was a miracle."

Yet, God won't save innocent children from death at the hands of molesters, murderers and abusive parents.

Do children not pray hard enough? Or, does God only intervene for intensely arrogant people?

Answer 1

God doesn't intervene at all. It should be obvious that anyone who says "I prayed, and was cured of [insert disease here]" cannot have knowledge that the statement is true. The usual tale is a heads I win, tails you lose proposition: if that which was prayed for was delivered, the prayer worked; if it wasn't, there was something wrong with the prayer. There is much more on this in:

Answer 2

We can not know everything or we would be God ourselves. Miracles do not happen every day. They are extraordinary events. Sometimes they happen for only one particular person, but usually they are to help strengthen the faith of a group. A miracle can not happen if it would stop someone's free will from functioning. It will not change the course of nature. It happens most often when a person turns to God and lets go of their own will and places the situation in God's hands. Some people have the ability to see into a deeper level of now (what is called for-seeing the future) and this happen for believers and non-believers alike. We all have the ability to heal ourself of minor illnesses. Sometimes people give credit to God for things that they did themself. Other times when God can not work through someone else and for whatever reason (we don't know) a true miracle does happen. I have seen it twice. The last was a women with pancreatic cancer which kills in 2 weeks. We prayed and she was cured. It helped many people at my church, not just her. It strengthened us all.

Answer 3

To be able to answer this is to say we know God fully and we do not.
There is a story of a Rabbi and other Jews in a concentration camp being forced to watch a small child slowly hang to death because the child took a piece of bread. The onlookers asked the Rabbi, "Where is God now?" And the Rabbi answered, "There on the gallows."
Our God is a God Who suffers with us.
Miracles do happen. Why and Why not we do not know. What we do know is that God give us the resources to stop the child molesters and murderers and abusive parents.
Perhaps the question is "Why do we allow such behavior to happen?"

Answer 4

You have to realize that Christians get sick and die like everyone else. If 2 people are in a train wreck and one is saved and one dies, it's not necesarrily the Christian who is saved. God often intervenes in peoples' lives, but often doesn't as well. Who can know the mind of God? God wants people to stop other people from hurting children. This life can be hard and God helps us deal with and overcome what others do to hurt us.

I believe that God pleads with people not to hurt children and is very sad when they do.

Answer 5

Belief in God brings His protection and blessings to us.
The world has rejected God and God has graciously stepped aside. We cannot expect God to help us when we continually adopt policies and make laws that oppose Him. Take our schools for example. Only in recent times (last 7 years or so)
have we had problems in our schools with shootings and teachers molesting the students. It is almost an everyday occurence now on the nightly news. Think of when all these things started happening. As soon as we decided that we could no longer pray in school, or have pictures of Christ or the 10 commandments displayed, as soon as we kicked God out of our schools, all these things mysteriously started happening. Up until that time, God blessed our schools. Once we told Him He was not wanted anymore, He graciously stepped aside and took His blessings and protection with Him. After He left, a spiritual void remained in our schools. What do you think came in to fill that spiritual void? All kinds of evil and wickedness came in. And we all invited it to come into our schools and attack our children. God can only intervene in the life of believers. One must believe in Him before He will do any works in your life. The world for the most part ,rejects Him. Tells Him to go away. Yet when calamity comes, we blame Him instead of repenting of the sin that brought the calamity in the first place. When people reject God, they reject all His blessings along with Him. This is the truth that God wants me to tell you. God Bless You....Peace.

Answer 6

GOD loves us and gave us free will to choose our destiny. yes Miracles happen as GOD answers our prayers, his angels help us. Satan is at the hand or rather the minds of the molesters and wicked ones.
Children are just suffers. We have to try and keep them safe. in this world it is becoming more and more hard. I have 4, 2 teenagers. I work in a high school and have so many stories to share. Just believe, pray and ask for help and thank the LORD, like Patene I say, it won't happen over night but it will happen. But then again, sometimes it does happen over night. That's GOD.
Arrogant people? huh... I think there are so many of Satan's demon angels out there, our world is hurting. I think we have to just Believe and try and block out the hatred. It's hard I know. I have lost my Dad to cancer, I never got to say goodbye because my selfish family in another country thought I would be too busy with my own kids. It hurts, but with God's help I am healing. That's the hardest. I have friends who have pregnant granddaughters whose family and friends molested them while they were to be babysitting. We try and trust but it's so hard. I am sorry for your pain, as you sound like you are hurting. I understand. keep smiling if you can.

Answer 7

Sounds like a Mystery, right?

God sends messengers and angels to do his work. Everyone has them. We each have spirit guides you guide us with out problems and help keep us on the right path. I have met three of my spirit guides:
Arnel (Jamaican) - helps me with my free time
Thunder (american indian) - He wants me in nature
T-Bird (american Indian) - He wants me to eat a natural diet

and more who I have met briefly (through mediums/psychics.

God can not answer all our prayers. Why? We not only charted the course for this life while we were in Heaven but we can not learn and grow (our soul) with our hardships and suffering. This makes us stronger and teaches us about life and more. There are reasons for everything in this life.
Yes, God does give us free will and sometimes we make good choices and sometimes bad. We learn more from the bad. But the good ones get us on a higher plane in heaven. That is our goal. Do good here now and each time we come here (souls can come back) so we can keep moving up closer to God (more holy).

God hears every prayer and sometimes he directly intervenes but this less common. He has so many angels and others that do his work. God gave us a promise - We will go to heaven and be with our loved ones. Lets grow and learn so our souls can stand tall in from of him.

Answer 8

Or here's one I like. Football team A beats football team B and when interviewed the player from team A thanks god for the victory. What? You actually think god looked around at the world, at starvation and disease and murder and rape and war and torture and took a pass on helping with that but intervened so you could win the Cheese Whiz bowl? I mean if that's how god prioritizes things, what kind of shallow ****** is he anyway?

I saw a comedian once who said just once he'd like to see the player from the losing team blame god for the loss ... "we were winning until Jesus made me fumble".

Answer 9

There are some people that blame God for everything, and are the very ones that won't give Him credit for anything He does good when it is obvious that it's Him. It is arrogant to assume God is responsible for the evil adults in this world who choose to harm children and His word says that they will be severely punished for it .

Answer 10

"Free Will" is a misnomer. To have the freedom to choose to align your own will with God's Will is what that really means. God is always taking care of us. The sun shines, the rain falls, the wind blows. For each of us there is an individual plan, so we cannot really judge one person against the other, since we do not know what it is really like to live someone else's life.