Does God exist?

[kjbake01]

ha- I thought I might get your attention with this

Comments

[gabbieb]

Sounds like an interesting discussion that you listened to. I recently had an uncle who died from cancer. He was diagnosed in 2000 and about died then. He said that he was going towards a bright light and that he heard God tell him that He wasn't finished with him on Earth. So he spent the final six years of his life battling the cancer and thinking that it was gone. Searching for alternate treatments and cures, yet never finding any. He rarely let anyone know how much pain he was really in and always looked to God. It was sad to see how fast the cancer engulfed his body last year and it is a wonder why God would allow it in the world. I know that God works in mysterious ways and believe that 'disasters' are sometimes His way of letting the general public to know that someone needed help. God let the levies break in New Orleans and people came to help the city that once was ignored. Cancer patients bring attention to themselves and people come to them thinking that they'll help when actually they receive it themselves. So

[kjbake01]

I think it is often very difficult (and I think unwise) to distinguish between God's movement and the natural causes and effects of imperfect people, disease, and sin in the world. (not that your uncle's- or anyone's cancer is caused by their sin, but that their bodies are imperfect and thus cancer exists as a disease)

I'm glad to see you think on these things, and it's is good that not everyone who suffers (and those who suffer with them) lose faith in God in the process. Keep meditating on these things.