2007-01-26 08:26:31 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Because he does NOT exist!
2007-01-26 08:32:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 13⤋
God does "let" people get cancer, nor does he "let" people suffer. Cancer happens, period. Suffering from it is not His wish. Cancer happens, for the same reason it rains - because. To blame God for the disease and the person's suffering is just wrong. Things happen to the body and the body's reaction to it are not His doing.
Accept that disease processes happen, just as car accidents do. Why? Because.
2007-01-28 17:14:28 · answer #2 · answered by gypsysoul52 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I lost my sister to liver cancer twenty-four years ago. I felt the same way, I actually hated God!! I told him so. My sister had so much faith in God, we all did!! Almost ten years later I went to work as an RN as guess what an RN on a CANCER unit of all places!! I learned that yes most cancer patients are the most sweetest people that your ever met. I also fell in love with the families of my cancer patients. I know for sure that God doesn't cause cancer or make people have cancer. Cancer comes from all types of things. For example; people who have smoked cigarettes, or have been exposed to second-hand smoke have lung cancer. Now we're finding out that ovarian cancers are caused by a virus that is transmitted sexually. We also have many food additives, and smog. We just plain don't treat our bodies right. We don't eat right, we don't sleep right, we stress our poor bodies. There's no wonder why we get cancer and heart diseases. Please don't blame our precious God!! I know you want to blame someone!! He will understand if you want to blame Him though. He is always here for us.
2007-01-26 21:02:50 · answer #3 · answered by paulinesdaughter 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All this suffering is only for a season. It's a lesson to us all. There is little justice and much is very unfair. Good people suffer and bad people prosper at times. It's as if there was no God.
But the truth is. God knows all and allows suffering because it's the consequences of the sin our original parents chose. God's plan for man is for us to be in harmony with him and his righteous laws, live forever, and have fellowship with Him.
In our ignorance of the consequences of violating his laws we think sin is good. It's only after we've burned our hand on the stove, to use a metephore, do we realize the consequences.
Thus for a half dozen millinia mankind experiences these terrible things that come with life in a sinful world. But one day will come an age when mankind, all mankind, will be raised from the dead and brought back to life with an understanding of evil. Then mankind will be taught good. And thus the full eating of the tree of "The knowledge of good and evil" will be complete. And each and every person will have the opportunity to choose either good which leads to everlasting life and fellowship with God, or evil and and loose their life forever.
Putting the suffering we all experience, ourselves and those we love, in the context of it being just temporary for the sake of learning the consequences of sin helps us understand the wisdom and compassion of God who will one day bring all back to life with salvation for the taking.
2007-01-26 16:53:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe that God causes the cancer. Really, no one knows except for God Himself.
But don't forget, those that are suffering from cancer or anything else, ... God is always there, helping them survive through it. And if a person should die, God's always there with them. He never leaves us.
Perhaps the cancer is just a test of sorts, like God tested Abraham (Abraham was told to sacrifice his only son Isaac, remember?).
Maybe we just have to have faith in the fact that God has a plan for each person, and we need to accept that God works in ways that we sometimes aren't meant to know.
Although, I can't help but agree with you that it isn't fair. My grandma died from cancer last year, and my grandfather the summer before that... and the worst, one of my friends died yesterday after a 3-year battle with cancer. He was only 17. But we keep praying for them, as we prayed during their sicknesses. (by we, I mean my family for my grandparents, and pretty much the entire city around here for my friend..)
2007-01-26 21:49:46 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ Dani 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your glass is half empty. Cancer doesn't have to be all negative. God allows things to happen for various reasons. It may be to test you or it may be to test others. It may also be to enlighten you or someone around you, to show you things that you may not have known before and needed or just simply to bring you back down to basics, to humble you. I have cancer, it was scary but it is quite possibly one the best things that has ever happened to me. Everything that I prayed so hard for finally started to happen for me and I went from thinking poorly of people to finding out that there are still many many good caring people in this world. I have had amazing realizations through this journey and don't see it as God's wrath against me. Everything happens for a reason, even others' pain and death awakens others. So see it as this persons pain is not in vain.
2007-01-26 16:57:33 · answer #6 · answered by Jenna 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever hear the saying "What dose not kill you will make you stronger" this is what i firmly believe in and I am a cancer survivor. god did give us free will but he has also placed us on a path and given us the choice as to which one to take.
2007-01-26 21:00:43 · answer #7 · answered by Amy L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dear,
God does notlet people get Cancer. It is medicine, food all of the things in the world causing it. Our God is not giving us illness
2007-01-27 03:21:56 · answer #8 · answered by -------- 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't let people get cancer. They just get it. God will, however, help you get through it and the treatment. Suffering is just part of the human condition. A lot of how you get through treatment depends on you, your faith and you attitude. Your faith not only in God, but yourself and the Doctors.
2007-01-26 17:05:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God does not give people illness. Our habits give us diseases. All that is good comes from God. We are the ones who mistreat our own bodies. We eat the wrong foods. Smoke cigars and cigarettes. God gives us free will to know the difference of right or wrong. God says our body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost, why would He dirty that Temple with disease?
2007-01-28 00:18:47 · answer #10 · answered by canbarra 2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not give people cancer. things happen in our lives for a reason. there are alot of diseases on this earth that people get but that don't mean got gives them to us. It says in the Bible he is a loving God and we are his children. if you have children would you want them to have cancer or heart disease, etc.? I don't think God wants his children to be sick either. That's why he gave Doctors the knowlege to do what they do.thank you
2007-01-26 16:51:40 · answer #11 · answered by sparky 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋