God is Almighty and definitely not helpless nor hapless. But sometimes, to Him, it is more important for us to learn some crucial lessons and to grow in our character, than to be healed of our disease. Eg.patience and perseverance, empathy for others who are sick, deep appreciation for other gifts from God such as those who care for us, the brevity and fragility of life, etc.
The purpose of believing in God is more than getting His blessings such as health, wealth,peace, etc. It is to know God and to make Him known. A sickness often helps us to know God better and if we have positive attitudes towards the sickness we have to live with, others around us will know the goodness of our God .
I am not suggesting we try to get sick to able to know God or make Him known. We are responsible to take good care of our bodies and seek medical treatment when we need it. But when there is no hope of a medical solution and God has not granted a miraculous healing, we can accept it as something through which God can bring some good, to us and others around us.
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What "crucial lesson" can there be in seeing babies starve death everyday in Ethiopia? Or by letting 6 million Jews be brutally murdered in World War 2?
And even if there is a "crucial lesson", you're saying that the ends justify the means, and I would disagree. The use of torture is not justified by the intent to protect others. Neither is "slaying the few to save the many", wouldn't you agree?
Shalom.
Perhaps we can learn to share our resources so that those babies do not have to starve to death. Perhaps we must learn to distribute the earth's resources more evenly to put an end to such suffering. Our earth is capable of feeding the present human population if only we act justly and with compassion.
I will never agree that the ends justify the means. What the Nazis did was definitely evil of the utmost degree and no one can ever condone that! I am not sure about the "slaying of the few to save the many". I hope I will never have to make that kind of decision but if I have to, I will have to consider why I do not act to save the many when I have the chance,even if the few need to be sacrificed. For example, in a war, when many are injured and the hospital staff are forced to neglect the very severely injured so that the limited medical resources can be used to save those who have better chaces of survival. Tough decisions, but so necessary.
"What the Nazis did was definitely evil of the utmost degree and no one can ever condone that!"
Apparently God did.
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