"Why did God give you cancer?"

[St. SteVen]

Wow. Amazing response.

 

[Taken]

"Why did God give you cancer?"

I would say, God doesn’t GIVE men Diseases,
Rather,
God ALLOWS men to become diseased.

Glory to God,
Taken

 

[Jesussaves150]

What about the young children who have cancer?

 

[Triumph1300]

What about the young children who have cancer?

Good question.
I am looking forward to the answers by all the people who know.
Because I have no answer.....

 

[ProDeo]

Good question.
I am looking forward to the answers by all the people who know.
Because I have no answer.....

Excellent answer.

I might give it a try anyway, all goes back to Genesis 3, A&E insisting to know the difference between good and bad, as if they were unhappy with good alone. And God gave them (us) what they desired, a world full of good and bad ending in death.

Maybe your answer is better.

 

[TLHKAJ]

Wow. Amazing response.

My son Matthew said to me one day... "If someone had to go through this, I'm glad it's me and not one of my siblings." Matt is with the Lord now. His graduation day was January 27, 2020 at age 17.

I met a young woman a few days ago who endured childhood cancer and she said she felt the same when she was going through it.

BUT ....God didn't give anyone cancer. He is faithful, and gives strength and peace, and joy as we walk through all our struggles, trials, and heartaches. I can relate to what this boy said ....that even though he goes through pain, God still makes him happy. Matt lived that out every day. And that's something I can relate to in my life as well.

 

[Jericho]

God didn't give anyone cancer, it's merely the result of the fall.

In systems terms: a conscious node whose connection to the Designer — the source of life — has been damaged enters a state in which its energy supply gradually weakens. Like a device whose connection to an external power source has been weakened, it comes internally stored energy and flows progressively toward extinction. The second law of thermodynamics — in a closed system, entropy increases —began to operate more powerfully with this system. If the pre-fall system continuously counteracted entropy through connection to the Designer as the source of life, the post-fall system, with that connection damaged, became unable to prevent the increase of entropy…

The universality of this death demonstrates the system-wide nature of the corruption. No human escapes death — philosophers, saints, the good, the evil, all die. This universality of death shows that the corruption is not merely a matter of specific wrongs by specific individuals, but a fundamental defect operation across every layer of the entire system.” –Simulation Christian Theology: The Ultimate Answers to Christianity -YoungHoon Kim

 

[Bob]

Thank you everyone for engaging.

Is anyone here worried about contracting smallpox? Polio? The reasons so many of once horrible diseases are no longer a threat, or as much of a threat, are that (a) God expected us to have compassion for those who suffered, and (b) He endowed us with brains to discover causes and cures.

Since we have compassion for those suffering from cancer, are we not called to do what we can with God’s gifts, to help alleviate suffering and find cures?

Blessings.

 

[TLHKAJ]

@Bob if you're referring to vaccines, no. I don't believe God requires us to take vaccines as a duty. He has answers that do not require injections of poisons.

 

[TLHKAJ]

@Bob

 

[Lambano]

All right, @St. SteVen, enough with the tear-jerkers.

 

[Lambano]

"Why did God give you cancer?"​

Does the question come from the same deep-down place in the heart as the Disciples' question in John 9:2-3?

Is the answer still the same as the one Jesus gave then?

 

[Lambano]

Good question.
I am looking forward to the answers by all the people who know.
Because I have no answer.....

The only answer I have is, in a fallen world, s**t happens. And that answer is less than satisfactory.

Especially unsatisfactory to someone who not too long ago lost his stepson to cancer.

 

[soberxp]

John
9:1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

9:3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

11:3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

11:4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

The Gospel of Luke 6:39
And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?


As for cancer.Humans are like cancer cells in the organic living body of the Earth.

It seems that the vitality is tenacious and prosperous, but in fact it is going to destruction.

 

[Armour of God]

The question of pain and suffering is a popular one. Many people reject God because of this question.
I don't have the answer to the question. Maybe it's a result of this fallen world, maybe it's the doing of the evil one. But I don't know, I'm only speculating.
All we can do is accept that pain and suffering exists and have compassion to those who are experiencing it and pray to God for the strength to endure such pain and suffering.

 

[St. SteVen]

"Why did God give you cancer?"​

Does the question come from the same deep-down emotional place as the Disciples' question in John 9:2-3?

Is the answer still the same as the one Jesus gave then?

The question is only answered for that individual.
In essence, their question remains unanswered.

 

[soberxp]

The question is only answered for that individual.
In essence, their question remains unanswered.

It's the same.
But I don't know why God chooses someone not the others.

If there is no blind, Jesus Christ could not say blind leading the blind.
cancer is the same, cancer leading cancer.

 

[Lambano]

Wow. Amazing response.

"Because He chose me." That child is handling his circumstances with amazing grace.

".. but that the works of God should be made manifest in him".

R. also thought God chose him to have brain cancer and the indignities that come with it - the same way God chose him to be born with intellectual disabilities that made him an object of ridicule among his peers, the same way He chose him to have an abusive natural father. To the end of life, R. resented God for choosing him for humiliation.

Philosophically, is being chosen by God for suffering and humiliation a more meaningful life than being ignored by God and having no purpose?

 

[St. SteVen]

If there is no blind, Jesus Christ could not say blind leading the blind.

I would gladly lose that phrase to end blindness.

 

[St. SteVen]

Philosophically, is being chosen by God for suffering and humiliation a more meaningful life than being ignored by God and having no purpose?

Certainly a sense of purpose is a great comfort for those who find it in their suffering.