Are all things truly possible with God?

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God is limited by his will. He refuses to do anything outside of his will.

So all things are not possible.
 
BobCatholic said:
God is limited by his will. He refuses to do anything outside of his will.

So all things are not possible.
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God wills and allows what can ultimately be good for us. It helps much to ponder the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Eternity is a long time! This life is very short.

Jesus, I trust in You!
 
Faxero said:
Things like Dementia, Alzheimers, and Paraplegia seem to be mental sufferings, rather than physical sufferings. Both types of sufferings through, are certainly interconnected.

Physical sufferings like cancer are cured by God no problem, while mental sufferings like Autism are left alone. I’m not sure why that is, but it might have something to do with original sin, hence the previous theory. 🤷
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The biological brain is involved in Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. It is not only mental but also physical in nature.
 
God wills and allows what can ultimately be good for us.
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Only if it is spiritual. Temporal, meh.
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That is included in ‘ultimately.’ Temporal goods, which include our human bodies in biological form, are not ultimate.

Even when HE opened a blind man’s eyes, they one day rolled back for good.

And even if HE heals a head plagued by brain damage or autism, that head will one day stop working and become cold.

It’s the everlasting sight and mind that are gravely needed. And you can’t pour everlasting life into an old human skin.

ICXC NIKA.
 
Elena, here are your two passages:

Mt 19:26 is about God working in a person with an attitude of richness so that he can be saved.

Mk 14:36 is about Jesus putting His Father’s will topmost and about all things being possible for His Father in relation to the cup He must drink.
 
One summer at a Gospel camp at the end of a talk on the seven wounds of Jesus, a general healing prayer was said over us people camping (without us individually going up or enumerating problems). The following week I was led into contact with the writings of Donna Williams, an autistic lady, and at the same time I was thrown in with colleagues who were being coached for their dyslexia and dyspraxia. It quickly became apparent I had these, but had not previously been able to seek adaptations to my living procedures and attitudes of mind because of not understanding what it was that was “different” about me. It was a wonderful boost.

In life’s course I have also been gifted with rather slight encephalitis. (I’ve lived through disputes about diagnoses too.)

I see you have been doing a very good thing indeed, praying for the autistic etc, that they be treated with respect. Sadly untrained professionals have not appreciated the kind of support they need, which is often very simple and easy to provide.

I’m saying an Our Father for you now that God will send into your life the means for you to adapt constructively in the forthcoming phase of your life.

I think it’s good to ask for “remission” but hoping in Him for the ability to cope if it doesn’t come.

You’ve asked how you can please God and you already have the experience of serving Him through those intercessions you’ve been making.
 
God’s ultimate goal for us human is to save our souls and to bring us to be with Him in Heaven, it is His will. He allows suffering on earth if the suffering is good for our Souls, not body and mind which we human focus on. Most of the times, suffering will make us to be humble and obedience and gain more virtues, if taking away the suffering from those persons will let them be proud or to continue to sin as God can foresee, God may prolong that. And suffering is needed as the repent for our sins of past. So Everything is possible if it is of God’s Will.
In God’s eyes, Souls are more important than our body and mind. And Afterlife is more important than this life on earth.
 
GEddie said:
That is included in ‘ultimately.’ Temporal goods, which include our human bodies in biological form, are not ultimate.

Even when HE opened a blind man’s eyes, they one day rolled back for good.

And even if HE heals a head plagued by brain damage or autism, that head will one day stop working and become cold.

It’s the everlasting sight and mind that are gravely needed. And you can’t pour everlasting life into an old human skin.

ICXC NIKA.
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But if someone cannot survive* because they don’t have the temporal needs fulfilled, then what?
  • Survival is defined as “I managed to make it to the end of life and remained in a state of grace”
A person who, by economic necessity, has to become a thief, because they’re never allowed to earn a living honestly, how will they be saved?

A person, who gets ill and never recovers, can never hold a honest job, will make ends meet how?

My opinion is that body and soul need to be healed, and nourished. If only the soul is healed and nourished (since the spiritual is so important that temporal needs are worthless) - then the body whithers and dies, bringing the soul down with it.
 
It isn’t ONLY things that are curable. If you go to Lourdes or Fatima or read the testimonies you will see that many people are healed of what were at the time incurable diseases and paralysis. God heals who and what He heals for His reasons. Sometimes it is a lack of faith on someone’s part sometimes it is another reason. I have met people who became doctors and lawyers who became such because of illnesses in their families. Maybe without that they would have chosen some other path. It all comes down to faith.

Also, when you read the gospel you will note people healed of demons. Today they would be classed as mentally ill and never offered such a healing. So who is to say what form of possession the person endured? The dead rose, the blind gained their sight and the lame walked. It’s God’s will, His timing and His reasons.
 
BobCatholic said:
But if someone cannot survive* because they don’t have the temporal needs fulfilled, then what?
  • Survival is defined as “I managed to make it to the end of life and remained in a state of grace”
A person who, by economic necessity, has to become a thief, because they’re never allowed to earn a living honestly, how will they be saved?

A person, who gets ill and never recovers, can never hold a honest job, will make ends meet how?

My opinion is that body and soul need to be healed, and nourished. If only the soul is healed and nourished (since the spiritual is so important that temporal needs are worthless) - then the body whithers and dies, bringing the soul down with it.
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The answer is that ultimately, not all physical needs are met.

Ultimately, each and every one of us will desperately need breath that we will be unable to draw.

People suffering from cancers today need cures that may not exist for fifty years.

People in third world countries need even simpler health care, or even purified drinking water, that are not to be had.

The Israelis and Palestinians need peace.

Some temporal needs can be overcome by human action, others not. But in a death – ridden world, there is no promise that all will be met.

ICXC NIKA
 
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