Yeah, yeah, he makes statues of Mary cry but I want to know if he ever cured the whole children's ward or something like that....
2007-01-31 03:07:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm just wondering why, if he's all powerful, he gave grandma (or let her get) cancer in the first place. Why does he presumably choose to intervene in some cases but not in others? It smacks of favoritism to me.
2007-01-31 03:18:23 · answer #1 · answered by magistra_linguae 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope, never. He doesn't do sick children, sorry. He doesn't deal with cancer, either--Grandma needs chemo and radiation treatment for that. Oh, and he NEVER heals amputees. Have you ever heard of a soldier having his amputated leg grow back? Nope. God doesn't do that sort of thing. You know, he used to part seas, cause huge floods, and appear to people as a cloud of flame, now he seems to have gone into retirement or something because he never does any miracles these days. Anyone know why that might be? Huh. Sure is a puzzle to me.
edit: "Somehow, my foot hit the breaks. I stopped inches from hitting the van."
Yeah, that's called an instinctive reaction, and it happens to everyone who's a reasonably experienced driver, because your brain is programmed to respond in certain ways to certain situations; if it weren't, you'd waste too much time thinking about how to react instead of actually reacting. Humans and other animals evolved this way to cope with danger. You felt something "other than the brakes"? How would you know? In the heat of the moment, you reacted, and the brakes responded. That happens a lot, you know, even when brakes are in need of repair. What you described happens a thousand times a day, and no God is necessary to explain it. So, sorry, no miracle here, only natural phenomena with a perfectly ordinary explanation. Besides, if God doesn't give a crap for amputees and starving African children, why should he care whether or not you survive a car accident?
2007-01-31 11:15:12 · answer #2 · answered by Antique Silver Buttons 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The best miracles are the ones nobody ever talks about, and that happen every day.
I was once following a van down a winding road. I was maybe 2 car lengths behind him going 40 mph (way too close...my bad). Out of nowhere, a pickup truck going the other way over-corrects on a curve and slams into the van. They both stop dead.
Somehow, my foot hit the breaks. I stopped inches from hitting the van. I was in an older buick, whose breaks were failing. Somehow, they performed about 200% of their average then. They had not been good before, nor would they perform the same way since.
You may call this luck, but I know what I saw and felt. I felt the car being stopped by something other than my breaks. I felt something pushing me back into my seat that was stronger than my seatbelt. It was a miracle.
God saved me, my two passegers, and the riders in the van (who would have been hit again by me).
2007-01-31 11:13:55 · answer #3 · answered by Jay 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There are a lot of cases of miraculous healings that arent really hard to find, but are they accepted?
My girlfriend is in New Zealand now and there are some things going on in the churches down there that make even ME raise an eyebrow. I'll be going to NZ myself within the next year hopefully and this is something I'll want to see for myself. I think that when and if there are "big" miracles, they just get written off as hoaxes and people never hear about them. They very well could be but, what if they're not?
2007-01-31 11:18:18 · answer #4 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God will heal and do what he wants when he wants. and who am I to say what he can or can't do all I know is if he wanted to he could. Cancer isn't a small miracle its a big cure. And raising someone from the dead isn't small either. I've heard of many miracles and all i know is he could.
2007-01-31 11:14:47 · answer #5 · answered by elf_drummer_boy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I consider healing of my constant, everyday, all the time pain a BIG miracle.
OK, how about moving a mountain? When I was visiting a seminary and the pastors-to-be read the verse, "If you say to this mountain be thou cast into the sea it will be done" So in FAITH they said to a nearby mountain, be cast into the sea. The very next day dump truck came and started hauling it away one truck load at a time. It's gone. Is that a BIG enough miracle for you?
2007-01-31 11:31:48 · answer #6 · answered by Jan P 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think hes curing earth of our ills right now we just do not see the big picture,for man has to be backed into a corner to make serious changes and thats whats happening with global warming and terrorism and wars and poverty ,etc.We are also hear to learn and we sure are.God helps us in big ways we just do not see them,it does not mean hes not helping.His methods are just too complex to visualise
2007-01-31 11:21:02 · answer #7 · answered by woodsonhannon53 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes He does!
Like saving some ones life, but even a lot of the big ones go unnoticed.
2007-01-31 11:13:02 · answer #8 · answered by Preacher's Daughter 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I'm guessing he doesn't cure dwarfism, retardation, third nipples or baldness. Those would be too obvious.
2007-01-31 11:14:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I know that he does not cure amputees. So I would guess not.
2007-01-31 11:09:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋