Faith healing: why does god need to asked to heal people?

#1 God is respecting your right of free choice. what good would it do if He healed someone who did not want to be healed? they would be angry become resentful and stop following Him.#2. communication is done by speaking and requesting reveals the heart and faith of the person. God operates BY FAITH not secular science. nope. it takes only one or two yes, but people have free choice tus they get to decide if they want healing or not. God will NOT force people to do things at this time---if He did there would be NO atheists. God has chosen to work through His followers and if they choose not to exercise the spiritual gifts bestowed upon them then many will not be healed, or helped. just like the nations of the world who have people starving, if ther nations decide not to help, those people will die. need is a strong word, He doesn't 'need' to be asked, HE wants people to learn to do it right, to be humble, to give Him the glory and show that it was Him alone that did it and was NOT coincidence, an alternative and so on. He wants to make sure all people know that He alone is the one who healed so that His existence is proved true and that He can demonstrate that He loves you, has compassion, mercy, and is interested in you plus that He is involved with life andnot some nameless, faceless, silent, seperated god.

this is contradicted by jesus' healing of the 10 lepers and so many others. i have not seen any verse which makes this restriction and certainly all the people that jesus healed did NOT dedicate themselves to Him.another example would be the roman soldier, at no time is such an act recorded in the story nor of the soldiers servant. it may have come as a RESULT of the healing but it is NOT a requirement. again this is contradicted by the example fo Nicky Cruz who had prayer answered BEFORE he repented and became a believer. no the measure is FAITH not dedication as Jesus repeatedly said 'your faith...' or 'greater faith i have not seen in all of israel...'has nothing to do with dedication or 'deserving'. see my previouspost.

then why did you leave God? is God bound to answer only the way you want? cannot God say 'no' or 'not at this time' or 'your request is corrupted by the wrong motive'?or did you fail to see God provide an answer and that the people did not respond or do what He said because it wasn't the answer they wanted? why punish God for things people did or did not do? how can you say this when your first response was 'i saw many answered prayers...it was all amazing...'? obviously, God does exist you just let your doubt allow evil to lead you astray.

ahh the amputee perspective. God is not forced to heal everyone and why He does not heal more than He does is up to Him and He has His reasons. Does God heal Amputees?as i stated in the other thread, people are looking for one answer and do not acdept anyother. these people get artificial limbs ,they get medical treatment and the timing is of God. God isn't going to use a miracle of regrowing a limb every time.but atheists just want excuses to remain atheists.

didn't say that did i? if one sees thousands of answered prayers then obviously they must come to the conclusion that God exists and is active with His creation.to leave that belief over unanswered prayers shows a selfishness in the departing person because they could not accept the answer granted.it has nothing to do with God but the attitude of the person.

you need to understand something, in christianity every prayer IS answered. when people claim it is unanswered and leave the faith, all they are saying is-- we did not get the answer we wanted or expected.God is not a santa claus whose only job is to answer prayers like handing out candy cane. believers are not going to be spoiled by God

yet you can't say that as you cannot prove those prayers were unanswered. nor can you say that because you have not been to every place in the world at the same time to make sure He wasn't avoiding you. for what? a process that does not exist? a false belief? or your own way? all of which offers you nothing. prove it. i have no doubts so we know your statement is in error. yes you do, you doubt that God exists, you do not know it because you cannot prove it true.I am sure God is right, has little to do with me.

who said He wasn't there? again you make judgements based upon the idea that te prayers were not answered your way, yet God is not limited to your way. who said He was indifferent? again you are basing this condemnation upon not getting what you want or someone not getting what they want. it sounds more like a temper tantrum from a spoiled child than a rational argument.

practice what you preach in your first paragraph.

yup the spoiled child syndrome. didn't get what he wanted so he throws a tantrum and false accusations to boot. you made the charge, the burden of proof is upon you. oh and there are ways to prove that God did it.{right, so if i supposedly do not follow the rules of this board i am attacked and suspended yet if you do not, it is okay. i see how it goes here} yes i am. that is because i am not evangelical because the Bible doesn't make those type of distinctions. you are either a follower, believer of God or you are not. there is no middle ground with God.i put the Bible ahead of all fields of study and i do not compromise what i believe. whichis why i can say there is no micro-evolution either--can't be because whenGod created he saw it was good so there is no need for micro-changes to improve any species.most evangelicals want the what the world offers or try to appease unbelievers, i do neither. if you do not like the message of God then that is your choice i cannot change it to something you like-- whichmeans that i cannot always meet the demand of 'secular scientific evidence' because secular science is far too limited and its demands are far too unrealistic. the fool has said in his heart there is no God. God exists and He wrote the Bible, it is just that unbelievers will not see it because no matter what a believer does they doubt, deny, and disbelieve so it is no wonder they would make statements lik eyours.

last i looked you were not a moderator nor an admistrator so either practice what you preach or do not respond to me again. yes it does, read Gen 1:30 that is where you are wrong again neither exist nor did God use them. you forget how genes are designed to work and they do not require any form of evolution. evolutionists are just trying to steal God's glory. prove it for i know that is false as we have the gospels recording Jesus healing the lopped off ear of a person who came to arrest him.what you mean to say is you have willfully chosen to distort the idea of healing to justify your unbelief. amputees are healed, just not in the way they want. if the limb didn't come off, they would die. if the limb didn't heal from the amputation, they would die.God heals amputees but He heals them in the way He WANTS because He knows that the amputee is asking for restoration not healing.the rest of the comments are not worth replying to as they come form those who are not sincere and just want to make trouble.