Take for example healing. I don't understand why God doesn't do it. I've heard stories of him doing it. I've talked to people who know others who have been healed. But why is it whenever I pray for someone I know to be healed, instead of fixing them and restoring their body, God gives them this lame half-assed sort of fix that makes you think they're healed only to fade later with time. It's almost like being taunted. I know that that's not in God's personality, so then why the maybe's and perhaps, when instead it would be easier if he just said: "NO. It's not going to happen, stop waiting on a miracle that won't come."
Sometimes it's so hard to believe that God is omnipotent.
I guess that's where faith is supposed to come in.
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Maybe God was teaching the healed person or those around him/her that he COULD heal, to give them hope or something, but then said sick person faded away again to teach him/her and those around him/her that God made the decisions around here, and by here I mean earth. Or maybe that person had to be better for that period of time for some other purpose such as giving the sick person and those around him/her time to relax before the real hardship came. I don't know Heather. I agree with you- it's hard to give God control and it's hard to believe sometimes that even if you DO give God control that He IS actually taking care of things for us. Just some thoughts.
I think God does a lot less healing in areas where medical care is so advanced. I'm a very cynical person, but I think North America is too, and it seems to me in my experience that God is a lot more active in a physical sense where his actions can't be confused for anything else (such as countries with poorer care). For example, if someone in Canada is healed by God, that would be edifying for that person and the people that prayed for that action. But tell anyone else that it was God who healed, and they'd question it - giving credit to medicine and doctors. I would question it. So what is our purpose here by asking for healing? To build up our own already present faith, or to encourage faith in others? Maybe in North America, its a better witness to non-Christians for someone to not be healed yet still have faith than for their life to always work out and be easy.
I think it's really good for you to question. We should question more; it builds up faith when we struggle and find answers instead of blinding holding on to what we've been told is true. Also, sometimes what the church and our parents teach us is not always right. Wow, that was a really long comment.
Hi again.
Don't know how to explain it but I felt compelled to come here.
To answer your questions the best I can it's not always about what you want, it's about what the other individual wants, it's about their belief, their faith. You can have all the faith in the world, but if they have none or little than it doesn't matter.
All you can do is hope.
Oh, by the way, Chadd deleted your comment, what a jerk huh.
Did you take that picture? it's incredible.
Heather,
Not sure where or what happened to that last comment I made, anyway, I was just simply saying that Rob Bell is Awesome!!! Have you watched any of his short films?
So, you started reading Velvet Elvis...didja finish yet?
I mean, it's been a few weeks, I'm getting kind of bored at not having anything new to read here.
I finished it ages ago. I'll ask my roommate if you can borrow it.
I believe God truly does heal and I know this through experience. People always seem to run to God when they are in need of something, especially when they are sick. However, when people get their healings they turn around and begin to live the same exact lifesyle that made them sick in the first place. If God heals you from lung cancer don't turn around and smoke, if God heals you from AIDS, don't turn around and live a promiscuous lifestyle, and most importantly when God heals you don't turn your back on him because you obtained what you needed from him. My point is GOD heals, but you have to maintain a godly lifestyle in order to keep those blessings GOD has given you.
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