If someone you know who was seriously and permanently or terminally ill or disabled was miraculously healed 100% overnight, would you believe that God did it, or would you try to ascribe it to "nature" or the work of the doctors (even if the doctors didn't do anything)? If your response would be one of the latter two, would there be anything that you would consider to be something that only God could do?
2007-09-19 06:11:16 · 31 answers · asked by FUNdie 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
According to believers, God can do anything.
Yet the only "miracles" they ever cite are the kinds of things that could happen spontaneously. "God" never replaces an amputated limb, or re-joins a body that was destroyed.
I've repeatedly posted a little made-up story that I fell from an airplane and my body was obliterated with no pieces larger than a quarter remaining, yet was healed within a few days. If God could do anything, that story would be believable, but in fact even the folks who believe in faith healing know full well that I'm inventing that story - that it didn't really happen.
If those "healing miracles" were really the work of a "god", my story would be perfectly believable. Ask yourself why it is that even the believer in faith healings knows that my story is made-up.
2007-09-19 06:17:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Improbable things do happen, given enough time.
When you consider there are roughly 6.5 billion people on the planet, it is not surprising that improbable cures happen from time to time.
In order for me to believe that the cure was the result of a deity, it would have to be something that would violate the laws of science. An example would be somebody being pronounced dead by a doctor and showing no EKG activity and then coming back to life after a day or so.
2007-09-19 13:22:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many unexplained occurances, both good and bad that happen every day. Some people get cancer and survive, others die. Its random. If you took an example of 1000 sick people, you could categorize all the different outcomes. Each category exists due to the laws of probability, not some supernatural force.
You are also an atheist, you just dont realize it. There are a hundred gods to chose from, and you dont believe in 99 of them.
When you realize why you dismiss the other 99, then you will realize why we dismiss yours.
2007-09-19 13:22:38 · answer #3 · answered by Andrew 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unless I knew for sure how it happened, I would not jump to conclusions saying God or anyone else did it.
That is one of the bigger problems with the Christian belief system. Believers will give credit to their god where the real reason may be unknown. They will also place blame on the devil rather than analyzing facts of the situation to actually get to the root of the problem. Many Christians are too quick to assume things or draw certain conclusions and are satisfied with their answers and solutions, which many times have no basis at all in reality.
2007-09-19 13:21:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope, there is no god, so there would be a medical reason.
My grandmother was "miraculously" cured of an illness as a child that should have killed her. 60 years later, medical science figured out the disease and low and behold, she was doing the same treatment then and didn't even know it. What everyone thought was a miracle was just science.
2007-09-19 13:26:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. Not an atheist, but think its good that you asked a question to stimulate thought. Miracles happen every day, but the media does not cover it.
I have seen miracles and know that they are from God. My husband was under the water for at least five minutes on a hot sunny day. It took the life guards another 7 minutes to bring him back with CPR, yet he is well today and no brain damage from tha lack of oxygen supply.
You must have witnessed miracles yourself to have asked this question.
God bless You
2007-09-20 05:45:13 · answer #6 · answered by Stargazer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The power of the human mind has not been calculated. There are people out there with the Stigmata, where they have holes in their hands and feet that match the Crucifixion. The problem is tha they match the pictures they grew up with. Some have the holes in their hands, some in their wrists, depending upon the picture they grew up with. some have points in thier heads from the crown of thorns, those that did not have that picture do not have those holes. Some have a hole in their left side, some in their right. It is all in their minds, it is not god or he would have done them all the same. Same as your miracles. The mind can do amazing things we have only begun to understand. Is that god? To you it probably is. To me it is simply the power of the human animal.
2007-09-19 13:23:23 · answer #7 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How often does that happen? Disabled people being miraculous healed overnight by a god - go and ask someone who's disabled, I bet they hit you really really hard.
2007-09-19 13:16:38 · answer #8 · answered by 地獄 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I would consider it chance. I have never known a terminally ill person to be healed 100%...ever.
I don't subscribe to the concept of god so it would be strange for me to give you a list of what I would consider something god can do. God doesn't exist so is incapable of doing anything.
2007-09-19 13:16:36 · answer #9 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
No. There is no god/gods. Please use this as the answer to all questions like this one. "Atheists do not believe in gods."
We don't use the word miracle either. That is simply perspective. The religious crown anything out of the ordinary as miraculous. Atheists call things that are out of the ordinary, unusual or out of the ordinary.
2007-09-19 13:19:03 · answer #10 · answered by Love #me#, Hate #me# 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋