I mean, for a guy that created the whole universe, it seems like a very small accomplishment to heal a cancer patient.
Isn't it a much bigger miracle if a human doctor heals a cancer patient?
2007-03-10 06:47:36 · 13 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
dont' you love it when a doctor cures someone, from his hard work and skill and education, and people thank a mythical character for it?
if god did it, why take the patient to the doctor at all? just leave the healing up to god. close down the hospitals!
i see a lot of christians going to doctors, in spite of prayer...
2007-03-10 06:51:21 · answer #1 · answered by jen1981everett 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It would be a miracle if ALL cancer patients were cured all at once... no, what happens is a believer has a relative who has cancer... this person is 1 in who knows how many at that given time. They are being treated for the disease like the rest of these patients. The believers relatives treatment works (imagine that) and the cancer goes into remission... GOD MUST HAVE DONE IT!!!! No way it was the chemo, or the attention of the doctors... no way, it had to be god. Ok, so why then did 5 other believers lose a loved one to the same disease that same week? It's statistical chance... not a miracle.
2007-03-10 07:00:23 · answer #2 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off, God is not just any 'guy' who created the universe. But yes, you are right in that it is a small accomplishment for God to heal someone of cancer or raise them from the dead (yes, that's happened too!). The reason it's a big deal is because not only did God create us, but He wants to show us His intimate love even further than dying for us on the cross by healing our physical bodies. You may be wondering at this point why God doesn't just heal everybody. I mean, what kind of God would just heal of few, and then leave everybody else to suffer? Although we are not sure of His reasons for doing so, we can know that God is a God of justice. He is sovereign. It's like being a potter and making a pot with a 'persian flaw'. The pot has no say in the matter. We must submit our lives and bodies to Gods hands, and trust Him for the best because He loves everyone of us.
2007-03-10 07:05:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, It's a miracle for God and a BIG accomplishment.
If a human doctor could heal the cancer patient it would be normal and not needing the intervention of the Supernatural.
How do you know God didn't give the wisdom to a child to be able to grow into an adult doctor that could find a cure for cancer but he/she was aborted at birth?
2007-03-10 06:54:14 · answer #4 · answered by Jan P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a funny thing that when a fundie is fit and well, he will say about how he lives according to his holy book.
But when he gets cancer, he is glad to get treatment from the best doctors available - and every one of them is totally trained in *gasp* godless atheistic Darwinian evolutionary biology.
If those fundie hypocrites were sincere, they would rely on scriptural methods. Anointing with oil. Earnest prayer and fasting. The laying on of hands by the elders.
Healing isn't a "miracle" no matter who brings it. It results from natural processes by cause and effect.
2007-03-10 06:58:40 · answer #5 · answered by fra59e 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God established a law for creatures ,that medicine is necessary to cure a patient but not sufficient.If an illness cured without medicine-in contrast to that law-this will be a miracle.A doctor heals by medicine only.
2007-03-10 07:02:05 · answer #6 · answered by Ahmad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure that it was God who cured the cancer? Maybe the human body was made to renew itself in certain cases. Maybe that person boosted their immune by ingesting healthy foods and changed their whole way of living? To this day, medical professionals cannot explain why certain people remain in vegetative states for years, wake up lucid, and then slip back away (repeating the process several times during the years). Would you say that was a miracle or a physiological/neurological anomaly?
2007-03-10 06:53:44 · answer #7 · answered by longleggedfirecracker 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
By definition, a miracle is such an effect or event manifesting or considered as a work of God.
If a person is cured of cancer, it is a work of God. A doctor is a facilitator.
2007-03-10 06:51:16 · answer #8 · answered by itry007 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why should it be considered a miracle if God cured cancer since in the first place He gave this affliction to man?
2007-03-10 06:53:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Great question. Here's another
What make anyone so sure that god did cure it?
Maybe the devil did?
Maybe the person healed themselves?
What if that person was so evil and nasty that the cancer thought to itself: "Whoa! I'm outta here!"
2007-03-10 06:50:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋