I was watching this news spot on a church where healing appered to be prevelant. But there was this one faithful believer in a wheelchair, and his wife said for 30 years everyday they wake up believing this is the day God will heal him.
So why some person with a curable problem, but not one that science couldn't explain to show His glory?
2007-04-06 18:54:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Modern day "faith healing" has been around since the days of the snake-oil salesmen, and has always been in the same category with it.
There's a joke among doctors that says if you don't treat a cold, it will take about a week to heal. If you do take medicine, it will take about seven days.
Did you ever notice that the things people are healed of are almost always either vague complaints (headaches, backaches, etc.) or things that would have healed on their own with or without prayer? I have even heard "healers" (evangelists, pastors, a lot of TV preachers) actually tell people that they are sick and God will heal them. They didn't know they were sick but by golly, they don't get symptoms so they must be healed!
Did you ever see God heal someone who had lost an arm or a leg? Or someone who had a wound that magically disappeared? Or a bald person (if that could be called healing)? Or for that matter, a truly, totally blind or deaf person who instantly saw or heard?
Be careful, I'm talking about personal experience here, not a story you've heard. Every faith healer has stories of "actual healings" (as did the snake-oil salesmen), and many faithful people truly believe that they have seen healings, because they thought that they had.
If Oral Roberts (or your favorite healer) could truly heal people, or get God to do so, or even get God to heal SOME people, then shame on them for not spending all of their time in hospitals praying for people and laying on hands, rather than in churches looking for sick people and asking for money.
It all boils down to this. If I am sick and you (or some healer) prays for me, I might very well get better. If I am gullible, I will say "Look, he really is a faith healer!" On the other hand, I may not get better. In that case, if I am gullible, I will believe the healer that it was because I didn't have enough faith, or that it just wasn't "God's will." So whether or not I am prayed for, I may get better or I may not. So why waste my time?
Which brings us back to your question, why is God selective with His healing?
Even in Biblical times God seemed to be selective about who He healed. Jesus healed a lame man at the pool of Bethesda. There were many people there, hoping to be healed by stirring the waters of the pool, but Jesus only healed this one man. What must all those others have thought? How did they handle the unjustice of seeing Jesus heal one person, but not all of them? Jesus taught love, but if He loved them all, why did He leave them in their misery?
Well, I guess I am just asking questions myself now... I hope they help you, give you some things to think about, as you try to understand why God lets some people (including innocent babies) suffer and die while healing others.
Peace and love...
2007-04-06 19:32:13 · answer #1 · answered by Don P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gods plans are always better than or own and has the perfect solution for His purposes. Sometimes a woman will be sick in bed for years. She will read the bible, encourage others, pray for others. And if you ask her if she would have come to Jesus if she had not gotten sick or did all the work she did for people otherwise, she would say no. Some suffer to help others, to show how they are not bitter and still love the Lord. There are people who sleep in dirt in Africa who love the Lord. This life is very short compared to eternity. God does everything well even when we dont think so.
2007-04-07 02:01:38 · answer #2 · answered by Ms DeeAnn 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To be honest, you know what? God does move in mysterious ways, but He is faithful to whatever He said He would do. But the problem is not God, it is people. God has always provided a season for people to get healed, but people give up before their season comes. They lose hope and then they get hope again and now you have to wait for the season to come around again. God works in cycles. If you miss your cycle you will have to wait again. That's why it takes some people so long to get healed. People really don't know how merciful God is. He wants people to be healed, but doubt and unbelief keep people from being healed not God. Some people speak out of anger and frustration and say why has God not healed me. But when you dig around in their personal life, in their dark closet. They doubted He could do it. Or they gave up. I know. I had a severe arthritis in my neck which could have crippled me for thirteen years and God healed me and kept me from having to sit in a wheel chair.
2007-04-07 03:49:10 · answer #3 · answered by super saiyan 3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God knows what is best for us in the long run. He isn't into fixing long-term problems with short-term solutions. He deals with the heart because that is the only thing that really matters anyway. The physical will all fade away.
2007-04-07 01:59:13 · answer #4 · answered by gtahvfaith 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God works mysterious ways.
2007-04-07 01:58:39 · answer #5 · answered by Ulrika 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because faith and hope is always a nice thing to have when some1 is down in the dumps, But its not real, just a nice thing to have.
2007-04-07 01:58:34 · answer #6 · answered by nzagito 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
i think thats the problem w/ ppl. they sit around and wait for God to do all these things, perform all these miracles, CONSTANTLY PROVE HIMSELF WORTHY FOR US, while instead WE should be trying to prove ourselves worthy of Him.
when its in your karma to suffer, thats that.
2007-04-07 01:59:32 · answer #7 · answered by Neha S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋