I don't think you have read virtually anything I have been writing?.?.?
Yes I do.
Christians pray for healing all the time. You state God answers prayer in healing. Many are not doing it to say, 'see, I told you so, God exists.'
Many claim God cured them of their cancer, just for example. We have many many many cases of these anecdotal testimonials. Many say so, not to prove to 'atheists' that God exists, but merely to give the glory to God for sparing them.
So I state, yet again....
Seems quite coincidental, that God is aiding in the cure for cancer, quite often, but not aiding in the conditions for which humans cannot resolve themselves, like amputees, cerebral palsy, and Downs.
I'm merely making an observation.
Do you find this quite coincidental as well?
No, it is totally logical given the difference between scientifically provable obvious outward miracles and miracles that cannot be scientifically verified.
I'm sure it does. But it is not relevant to this conversation. So please stop bringing 'humility' into this discussion
Great, then I'll ask again, and maybe you will address appropriately this time.?.?.?
Why does God never seem to answer the call to prayers, for which we cannot already address/rectify ourselves, all-the-while, God does seem to do so for conditions and illnesses we humans can address ourselves?
Yet again, you state God answers the call to prayers in healing. He seems to heal many, but only of the illnesses and conditions we can address ourselves --- but not amputees, cerebral palsy, and Downs. Why does He always exclude these three?
But again, we do not need every single one of them to stay in that situation. Many pray for healing. God looks to ignore or skip every single request to reverse amputees, cerebral palsy, and Downs, but looks to quite often aid in conditions for which we humans can address ourselves. Coincidence?
Yes I can. Prayers looks to never help the ones praying for restoration in a missing limb, reversal of cerebral palsy, or of Downs. We could rule out that the human can help themselves in such cases. If such a person stated they prayed to God for healing, and they later grow back their limb, no longer have cerebral palsy, or no longer have Downs, then this might demonstrate powers from beyond.
God does not, because of the huge problem such miracles would cause for nonbelievers.
Let’s try another approach to the question:
Suppose God communicated to all devout Christians who spread the word: that the Christian God of the Bible was going to cure all: Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy and instantly grow back any missing limbs of people at 2PM on Friday. And it all happened just as He promised:
1. Would this result in there being over 6 billion Christians on earth, assuming 6 billion people acknowledge the existence of the Christian God? (realizing some people are too young and other just want to remain stupid).
2. “Christian” is a descriptive term and not a title, so would God consider this 6 Billion+ people Christian, just because they acknowledged His existence?
3. If these 6 billion+ people started: reading their bible, going to church every week, and were baptized, would that make them all Christians in God’s eyes?
4. We know; God judges the hearts of people (their attitude and motive) and not their “knowledge” or even their actions, to determine followers and their hearts determine their being saved Christians. Knowing the Christian God of the Bible is real, also means judgement is real, hell is real, and we are to Love God and others with an unbelievable beyond human ability Love. How can these people, who just acknowledged God’s existence, “trust” their motives to be pure?
5. Knowledge of God, hell and judgement is frighting in many ways, so would most of these 6 billion+ people do stuff out of fear of Judgement, hell and realizing God knows their hearts?
6. Is worship out of fear, a righteous motivation? And if it is not, how do you go from just knowledge of God’s existence to a loving “trust” (have faith) in God’s Love, without starting with trust and acceptance of God’s Love?
7. Knowing your own life history and if you saw this miracle, why would you not fear this God?
Because then I would know I was not merely talking to myself for decades. But I would still have the freewill or free choice to either accept Him or reject Him, if I knew He was for real.
Now are you going to pray for God to provide me with revelation? If not, why not?
If I have any seemingly “bad” condition it is there for a reason to help me and/or others to do something good in the future.
You are saying: “I would still have the freewill or free choice to either accept Him or reject Him, if I knew He was for real.”, but would you not have to be truly unwise to reject God’s existence, if you knew he was real? (How do you do that?)
If you knew for certain the Christian God of the Bible is real, what would keep you from believing He will judge the hearts of men for heaven or hell?
Would you have a fear about rejecting this God?
Answer me a simple question please.... Do you find it logical or illogical to interact with an agent for which you doubt even exists?
I found it very humbling to trust in the existence of a benevolent Creator, but given the situation I was in, it was the most logical thing to do, since there was no other way around my spiraling down to the pigsty of life.