If so, i would like to know how you feel about illnesses, such as cancer or diabeties or epilepsy? Do you believe this is your god working? Do you believe these people get ill because they deserve it?
Thank you, im looking forward to your answers.
Im very open, so please be honest about how you feel.
2007-07-09 09:03:18 · 59 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. God is just superstition.
Crap happens.
There aren't any gods causing it, stopping it, promoting it, or detering it.
2007-07-09 09:05:09 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 4⤊ 10⤋
No I do not.
If this answer given above (or others in a similar vein) were true...
"Yes i do believe in God!
I don't think he is doing this because they deserve it!
He is doing this though!
Everything he does is for a reason!
Maybe a illness in one person can open someones eyes
to believe in God! Or maybe the person with the illness will
believe through this! You may not ever see what happens
from these illnesses but God sees the big picture and only
he is in control! I really do believe this !
I hope i could be a help!
Hopefully you will believe this as well!"
Is this person really suggesting that a child might get a terminal disease because an omnipotent being desires that someone should believe in him?
If that is the vanity or type of depravity that an omnipotent being would resort to, if that is the credulousness of a believer in that omnipotent being or if that is the depth of the wisdom of believers, then I am glad to disassociate myself from them.
If anybody is a fellow traveller of such believers, you should hang your head in shame.
2007-07-09 10:58:22 · answer #2 · answered by davidifyouknowme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe there is a God or a creator...it states in the Bible that it rains on the just and the unjust. I believe that disease is brought on by a imbalanced diet or chemicals in the environment. Disease is usually a heat symptom from too much meat or fat or sugars or chemicals. My son at age 6 was diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis and he asked "Why am I sick," and the response that I gave him was "maybe you are sick so that you can find the cure for this disease." A person's thinking changes during illness and it opens doors that you normally don't go through. If life was perfect then we would call Earth, Heaven. Being Human is nothing more than a school where we learn and hopefully become a better soul. Then there's the believe of reincarnation where we are reborn to work out past life's mistakes. It also states in the Bible that man will never ask the right question....meaning the right question is beyond our conception....??? Yes, I believe that something made that first cell and we may never know why some people have disease and others do not....we are just here to enjoy the beauty of this planet and disease gives us the opportunity to open our hearts to those that suffer.
2007-07-09 09:27:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"God" is a very variable term, some religions believe that it is god's doing when people are ill, but it's for a purpose, others believe that it is the fault of human imperfection due to Satan's evil influence, and some... like myself, believe that there is a possibility of a higher being, but I'm highly sceptical about the teachings of the bible, and the existence of a true god that created the world and all that live on it. This subject is far too complex however, to answer in one box lol.
In regards to "Do you think people get ill because they deserve it?" Most certainly not, good people die young everyday, and definitely don't deserve such a fate.
This debate of god will continue for a very long time i think, and to be honest, i doubt that any of us here today will know until we die... Not a great thought, but i think that might be when you find out. Best of luck with it though :P
2007-07-09 09:11:26 · answer #4 · answered by Dougie 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, and the reason is....NOBODY has ever seen God, and they won't. The Bible is just a history book, of things that were supposed to happen thousands of years ago. How do we know that this stuff actually happened,.???
It was dreamed up by some people with nothing better to do.
If there was a true and just God, then he wouldn't let bad things happen to nice people, like stuff does.
Illnesses and sickness is just the body going bad, and we have to fight those illnesses to stay alive.
Preachers of churches have gotten on the band wagon about this so called God, just so that sick people in the mind, will go to church and put money into a collection plate, hoping to buy their way into a non existent heaven.
If there was a heaven, then...where is it located. No body has been there and returned, so that is proof that it doesn't exist.
2007-07-09 09:17:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The God I believe in created us. None of us are perfect. God never promised we would live a hurt-free life. Disease and accompanying illnesses are part of life. God also created people who would find solutions to problems. Some of these people invented medicines and vaccines to help with the illnesses. I dont believe that people become ill because they deserve it. How can a child with cancer have done anything to deserve that? That premise comes from ignorance-if that's an excuse. I hope you really do have an open mind.
2007-07-09 09:12:42 · answer #6 · answered by phlada64 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
NO - i do NOT believe in GOD...
i think that the planet is natural, and that we are some kind of coincidence along with the rest of evolution...
i think that there is some possibility of spirituality, but i have no proof of that...
how could one god make, create and keep this place... and if there was agod how would the world leaders ever got approval ????
its just us... and the answer to the other question, about ilness and that stuff is simple too... its called NATURAL SELECTION... for the longevity of any species, survival of the fittest is comepletely necessary - and so it happens... its not nice when its people we know and love... but still, its natures way of trying to improve and keep us strong...
the human race has found ways to cheat the system... and we are becoming over populated as a result... nature will figure that out...
"DEATH and TAXES" joe black ! which was a great film i think....
i have lost people close to me, and it doesnt seem fair, but there is no one to blame for it... certainly not GOD... make the most of the time you have, and LIVE everyday like it was your LAST !!!
be well... love and respect...
xx
2007-07-09 09:11:37 · answer #7 · answered by Maximus_Decimus_Meridius 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sophi Hello,
Yes I do believe in God and know that perfection is not for now. This world is not a perfect world and the world is off centre at the moment. When Jesus comes back to give restoration everything then will eventually come into reconciliation.
So a definite NO people are most certainly not to blame for their own illness unless it's a self induced one or it's caused by outside circumstances.
This is a great question ask some more if more questions come from the answers you get.
2007-07-09 09:11:20 · answer #8 · answered by : 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
We think that this life is all that there is!!!
But it is not.... Illness is a passage to death, or a vision to it.... we can either live thru it in a better way in life or we can simply die......
Death is not a bad thing, illness is not pleasant but it is a passage in leaving this life and going onto something else....
There is a process in death, the letting go... the making things good, as in getting things in order and letting our people let us go...... the sicker people get the more they let go and we alienate ourselves. It is a process in our families being OK that we are going and for the sick person to also make loved ones realize that they are OK without us......
It is unpleasant to be sick, and death can be a release, which is good because death is not the end. It is a new beginning!!!! Death is not to be feared, and we should not resist it. Usually it is the families keeping the person here, we should let them go.... and make them realize that we will be OK without them, then they can let go and go with the flow of the death process.
There is something after.....
2007-07-11 02:14:03 · answer #9 · answered by kiwi chick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I believe in God. Illnesses were not a problem until sin came into the world. Sometimes illness brings people closer to God. I have seen people come back to God after having an illness. I don't believe that everyone gets sick because they deserve it but because they are born into sin. Certainly if a baby gets cancer, we all wonder why this has happened. It cannot be the child's fault. They are not sinful as a baby, but because of sin, the child has gotten sick. This is just one of those questions that I have for God when I get to Heaven. The Bible tells us that future generations of family may pay for our sins.
2007-07-09 09:10:32 · answer #10 · answered by Colette B 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't believe God sends illnesses as punishment. I believe that some people are made sick by the results of the actions of others, such as pollution causing radiation sickness, birth defects, respiratory problems, etc. etc. The pollution is caused by industrial greed and lack of care for the environment Some illnesses are the result of other people's sin--like women who take drugs, smoke heavily or otherwise misuse their bodies during pregnancy.
Sometimes too we cause our own illness or death. My father was grossly obese all his life. He had times when he would lose some of the weight (which proved he could) but he had no self control--he wanted the food, and lots of it. He would eat in secret, steal money out of my mother's purse to buy fast food and then eat at home again so she wouldn't know. The doctor told him he was digging his grave with his fork and he just laughed--he didn't care. The resulting heart disease that eventually killed him was directly linked to this choice.
Some other problems are genetic, and I can't tell you the "why" of that, but I do know God doesn't "punish" people by sending sickness.
2007-07-09 09:14:38 · answer #11 · answered by anna 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋