Questions for Christians only?

Question

Why is it that pastors will tell you that if you are sick that sickness has to leave in the name of Jesus and people die. Why is God so silent, ya ask for his help and he ignores and leaves you to deal with it on your own. final question: What does it mean when you try something and you fail over and over again and while youre trying youre asking God for his help but you still continue to fail and this failure goes on for years.

Answer 1

Because there is no God dear. It is that simple. God was created before there was science. People did not understand things so they made up a god to explain it. Every culture did the same thing. Look for answers within yourself. That is where they all are and always have been.

Answer 2

"Why is it that pastors will tell you that if you are sick that sickness has to leave in the name of Jesus and people die."
It's one of the basics in understanding what 'faith' really is. Since I take the meaning of the word 'faith' as being synonymus with 'trust', I can more easily understand the reasons why God does what he does.

There is nothing like the feeling that your life is coming to an end to spur us into making a decision:
Are we going to trust God even though we are faced with a bitter end? What will it be? What are you going to do, fish; or cut bait?

What our actions are at that time will determine if it was all show or something really substantive.

So sickness is one way God might test us. Even if we die from that sickness, are we going to trust him or not?

"Why is God so silent, . . . "
Is he really? I guess that I don't see it that way. Most people complain that the Bible is too long to read. I wonder how much they would know about God if they sat down to read the whole thing? I can truthfully tell you that God is not silent. To some people I imagine that he is, but not to me, and not to others like me.

"What does it mean when you try something and you fail over and over again and while youre trying youre asking God for his help but you still continue to fail and this failure goes on for years."

That's interesting to read. There are several ways to look at that.

1) Maybe you can't do it because you are not listening to instruction by those who have.

2) Maybe God does not want you to do it.

3) Maybe it's not right for you.

4) Maybe you are not trianed wnough to do it.

5) Maybe you have ulterior motives and are really not doing it for the right reasons, and then you fail because you fear the accomplishment.

I could go on.

Really, the blame game can go on the rest of your life. But sometimes we just have ourselves to blame. It's difficult to admit fault.

Answer 3

Q1: God heals some people; others He doesn't heal. We should not assume that God has to heal someone. In the end, we all die anyway, even if we were healed.
Q2: Perhaps you feel that God is silent and that He is ignoring you because you are not really seeking Him. Do you spend time in prayer, in reading the Word, and in fellowship with other believers?
Q3: Perhaps you need to tell us what that something is that you keep failing at. If it's some wholesome, godly goal, perhaps God is teaching you perseverance. Hard for us to tell unless we know what it is you're pursuing.

Answer 4

My pastor has never told me that any illness I have has to leave in the name of God - why? Because that's crap. You have medicine to help you get better. Not everything has to be a miraculous event. Some things can be common place. God is silent sometimes when you ask for things, when you have to deal with it on your own because you need to learn something. He's always there, but he's just letting you do things for yourself, pointing you in the right direction when you get lost along the way. It's just important to realize that sometimes, the answer to things, is no.

Answer 5

These are good questions. Some of the same ones I asked. There are good answers, but it is too much to post here and it is too late in the day. If you really want to know, e-mail me and I'll get your answers to you next week. I won't send you any info you don't ask for or try to convert you, so don't worry about that. It's funny that my fiance and I just had a similar conversation last week. Anyway, let me know if you want the info. These are the answers that finally make sense.

Answer 6

First off, we have to understand that God doesn't help us in the ways that we expect him too. He rarely speaks with a loud, booming voice, and a big sign in the sky.
God answers prayers in more subtle ways, and sometimes he'll give us what we need, instead of what we want, and we think he isn't listening.
A lot of preachers pray for healing when that isn't what's really best. I once knew a man who had many health problems, and his body was breaking down. He ended up in the hospital, and even though I prayed for him to be healed, he went on to heaven anyway. For weeks, I was devastated. But God spoke to me one night. He said that the man was tired of his earthly body, and he wanted to pass on, and I'd been praying for what I wanted, not what was best.
As far as a problem you are still struggling with. I have tons of problems I still struggle with. I'll be the first to tell you, change isn't easy, and God won't wave a magic wand to make them go away. God will help you, but he won't fight all your battles for you.
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Answer 7

This is called "bearing ones own cross". Jesus said, "Take up your cross and follow me." This means that we will suffer with Christ as He suffered. This is how God purifies us. Look at the life of the Apostle Paul. He was shipwrecked twice, beaten, stoned, imprisoned, left for dead, almost starved to death, etc. His example is what Christianity is all about.

There's an old saying, "How would you know how victory fells unless you felt defeat?" Sometimes our victory won't be until we get to heaven.

God doesn't heal EVERYONE. He allows us to suffer in order to bring us closer to Him. In order that we might rely on Him the more.

Answer 8

I'd say its because if God does indeed exist, He does not come as ADVERTISED, heh. He's not some genie to be tapped at will and we're not far enough up the universal ladder to truly understand an omnipotent being. Even the CONCEPT is asking too much of us, just as a computer can crash when overloaded with too many programs or too many requests at once. If you choose to praise God for His renowned "good," you also have to be angry at Him for the bad He does not address. That's an empty exercise that simply sends you spinning in a circle.
When drugs are studied before being released to market, they do what's called a double-blind test. Some people get the real drug; others get a placebo, which is an inactive compound, usually a sugar pill. To get accurate results, you can't fiddle with the test. You have to let it play out for as long as it takes to find a true reading between the placebo group and the drugged group. God's not going to jimmy the details of His own master test. You can only rise or fall on your own; that's what free will and Christ's sacrifice are all about. Therefore, praying for specific gain or personal things is fruitless. Praying for a best resolution for all concerned, for patience or for understanding is more sensible. It keeps your spiritual gears oiled.
C. S. Lewis once made a briliiant case for God's existence. He said (and I paraphrase a bit) "If there is no God, why do we debate good and evil at all? That's not a human concept, not something animals would devise and we are basically animals of a sort. A standard had to be set and the process of life BEGUN. Its up to us to CHOOSE the high road, the low road or no road, but the complex structure had to be devised at the start." I appreciate this thought because the nature of the world, human craziness aside, is LOGICAL. Evolution does not clash with Creationism, because the bones of creatures long since dead show that the living world is one that evolves as part of its design, which does not oppose the idea of God; it reinforces it. That's part of the beauty of it all and a prime way you can see His hand in things, minus the argument, self-righteous manipulations and human error.
So if God is logical, that means He is balanced and balance has a solid partner in fairness. Not all things are fair, because many factors can UNbalance things, but the fundamentals hold true overall, just as gravity is a constant with only minor fluctuations that in themselves are also subject to logic.
Therefore, where do you really plant your feet about the idea of God? For me, it became simple to toss aside the fears, the Falwells and the hanging sword of a Hell that makes too little sense. After all, a logical being would not get angry at himself and throw parts of his own body into a fire. The worst Hell would simply be to find yourself shut out of a chance at the next level. That may sound a bit Buddhistic, but it feels right to me because it IS logical and I give the Old Man full points for that. Too many people focus on the idea that they're going to be punished and go through life quivering in fear needlessly, which undermines their free will. Its not about fear; its about wonderment and appreciation. I think more in terms of being in AWE of God. After all, how could I not grin and gladly bow to the maker of hothouse orchids, chocolate, pipe organs and the female breast, heh heh.
In Woody Allen's "Stardust Memories," an alien he sees during a hallucination responds to his worry about what he could have done to make the world a better place by saying "You want to make the world a better place? Tell funnier jokes."
If you really want to be a better Christian and cope with the hard parts of life, do the best YOU can with whatever comes along rather than looking up so much. He wants to experience life more fully THROUGH you, so leave that super-lofty stuff for the next level and make THIS one better by letting people off the hook for the small things, working AND playing as diligently as you can and telling funnier jokes. That best honors Jesus' sacrifice and even more important, takes unnecessary weight from your shoulders so you can make Him more glad that He bothered in the first place.
At that point, you can find a balance between the good and bad... and balance means you are closer to being able to really look Him in the eye with an open mind and heart, because that's how He designed things to be in the first place, hm?

Answer 9

God doesn't heal everyone, no matter what preachers say. Concerning His silence, He spend thousands of years giving us His work in the Bible. I hardly call that silence. If you need more specific guidance, He promises to give it, but in his way and in his timing. Sometimes we choose to ignore his answer because we don't like it. About the failure. God isn't condemning you for it. Maybe you are condemning yourself. We believe lies and so we fall into sin. Fill yourself with his word and things will get taken care of in time. In the meantime, there is grace and growth. He loves you even with your failure. When I feel bad about myself, I think about how i feel about my children. How unconditional I am towards them. How patient. How much i love them and want them to succeed, no matter how long it takes. I can't live their lives for them, and sometimes they need to learn lessons for themselves with and sometimes without my help and guidance.

Answer 10

The bible says God helps those that help themselves. So when your sick go to the doctor and pray. God never ignores you. He may not do exactly what you want but he listens. Remember he know better than we do and he has a reason 4 everything he does. God is love. Be blessed. Yay for Jesus.