I’m quite sure of this as well. I reject any notion that it is otherwise.
But the fact that the prayers of amputees don’t get answered calls into the question the claims that the prayers of others have been answered.
How? When you say in his own house and on his own time, do you mean after they are dead?
Exactly. It is an accepted Scriptural thought that in His house, every tear will be washed away. There will be no wheelchairs, no walkers, or canes, crutches or splints, braces, casts, contact lenses, eyeglasses, pain medication, to be found anywhere in His Kingdom. Then again, for those who don’t believe, You’re on your own!joeybaggz:
How? When you say in his own house and on his own time, do you mean after they are dead?
Yet there are some who seemingly get cured before going to Heaven. And the dividing line is suspiciously as to what the human body can fix on its own and what it can’t. If God allegedly does answer prayers, and if the ones whose prayers get answered have ailments the body can fix, why is it that he can’t or won’t answer the prayers of the people who have ailments the human body can’t fix? Why is God so stringent on only working one side of that dividing line?
@Kris34, if you’d like to take a stab at answering the questions I just asked of joeybaggz I’d be interested in reading your response. If people want to say that all will be healed in Heaven, sure I guess. That doesn’t in any way, shape, or form answer why the only people who get their prayers answered on Earth are those with ailments that the body can sometimes cure on its own.
Have you considered who created that human body and it’s ability to be healed? And what aids the body in healing - healing from a viral infection, medications, doctors expertise - who created those aids?
So Jesus doesn’t care less about people’s suffering but only heals them physically if it will save someone’s soul?
I am speaking only of blatantly miraculous healings. The miracle is always a sign geared toward a higher spiritual reality. Christ also is constantly healing through means which most overlook as normal. Every day there are people whose cancer goes into remission or survive a surgery which has an almost zero chance of survival. These may be done though medical means, yes. It doesn’t mean that Christ guides the outcome. There are even those healings which have never come to light. A month ago, doctors looked at an MRI of one of my uncles on my dad’s side of the family’s brain for an unrelated reason and found out that sometime in the past he had had a rather severe stroke, however he has never had any symptoms nor is the damage it caused affecting him in any way. That is a healing which would have gone unnoticed, had they never done an MRI.
Not so
Pope St John Paul II, St Therese of Liseaux, St Faustina, and many, many others have offered up their suffering through their illness. We can offer our suffering to Christ in a mystical way for the intercession of souls. Any bedridden and shut-in Catholic can be a fierce warrior through their submission to God in their suffering and their prayers.