Is he not able?
Is he not interested?
Is he not there?
Is he simply a superstition?
2007-07-02 18:22:39 · 17 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He's too busy healing amputees.
Wait a minute....
2007-07-02 18:25:31 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
He has been healing cancer. There is known and unknown.
He gave us ability to access His powers if we lead Godly lives. It is His promise that we can ask anything in His power and He will grant it, but we need to love Him wholeheartedly.
He IS able. And He can enable you too if you seek Him. It is that our own agenda is more important to us than following God's will for us.
He is interested. Are we interested in Him?
He is everywhere where He is.
God is real. He is on the throne. Why He heals some and not others, I do not know.
2007-07-03 08:15:44 · answer #2 · answered by Ulrika 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created cancer. As he brought everthing in the universe into being. God will not un-create simply because WE think something is evil or unworthy.
Cancer is but one side of the perfect balance that exists in creation.
2007-07-03 01:43:21 · answer #3 · answered by ∞ sky3000 ∞ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is not able because He is not with us anymore. If that sounds like an ignorant and overly simple answer, let me assure you I'm not an atheist nor am I fanatically religious in any way. I read the free book down-loadable from this web page - http://www.realists.org/ - and I can't flaw the logic, or the facts presented there. In fact he challenges ANYONE to make a logical argument against his book. Check it out :)
2007-07-03 01:51:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This will be unpopular, but..
God 1. answers prayers in his timing, not ours. 2. all prayers are answered; but we don't always get what WE want. ~ I don't know that God wants people to have cancer, but I do know that instead of praying that what we want to happen to happen, we should pray that God's will be done, and if that means giving 20 more years, or 20 more minutes we should still give thanks to God.
God is able, He is Real, He is With Us, He's strong, awesome, and when he's in charge our lives are better.
2007-07-03 01:38:53 · answer #5 · answered by Christian in Kuwait 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Is a superstition.
Two warriors are going to fight and the two are praying.
Why God choose only one to live?
2007-07-03 01:36:35 · answer #6 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The doubts are in your own mind, and those are what you have to deal with. I know for myself, losing my mother and only sister 15 months apart to cancer, my faith and trust in God was the only thing that allowed me to make it through such a trying time. You can struggle with trying to find the answers to your questions, or you can turn to God to receive the benefit of His Gracious Presence in your life. And yes, you can ask Him why, He doesn't mind. You can destroy your being with anger,bitterness and hate towards God, or you can choose to accept His free gift of Grace, and in Him find the peace, comfort and acceptance that will build in you a strength that will help you surmount the next obstacle in life you are faced with.
2007-07-03 01:58:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Note, this question predates the fictional Christian god. Mankind has been asking this about every single god ever created out of our fertile imaginations (over 3,000 to date*).
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
— The Riddle of Epicurus (ca. 341-270 B.C.E.)
Put another way...
"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; Or he can, but does not want to; Or he cannot and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. But, if God both can and wants to abolish evil, then how come evil is in the world?"
2007-07-03 02:00:35 · answer #8 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cancer is the generic name we have given to abnormal growth of certain cells in the body. Many of these cancers are created by the pollutions we put into the air and water, the additives we put into our food and drinks and the waste from our production systems.
If God prevented us from getting cancer, or healed it when it occured, he would be preventing us from experiencing the results of our actions, and this planet is all about learning to understand cause and effect.
In short, God would be removing our free will, if he didn't allow us to see the results of our actions.
2007-07-03 01:30:59 · answer #9 · answered by brother ali 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why don't you ask GOD that same question? He is able. He is interested in those who are interested (not just in getting healed, but in Him). He reallly is there. He is no superstition. He just doesn't always answer prayers in the ways we expect Him to (we can't control Him, you know).
2007-07-03 01:28:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
That was the final blow for me. I was a spiritual agnostic before my father died of cancer. I asked for understanding, help, strength. God didn't come through, my family did.
I can't believe anymore in someone who isn't there for me in my moment of need, never replies to my queries, and is invisible!
2007-07-03 01:31:47 · answer #11 · answered by ? 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋