If you had cancer and were undergoing chemotherapy and at the same time prayed to god for him to cure you?

[coolbreeze]

Then lets say your cancer went into remission. Now - if you believe god worked a miracle to cure you of cancer - why would he not do the same for others? Did you pray harder - or are others less worthy of help? Or is it coincidence and the chemotherapy helped you?

[Princess madeline JPA]

If it were me, despite the fact that I believe in G-d, I'd give Chemo the credit, but I'd thank G-d I had the money to pay for it.

[Char]

Been there, done that.
I had state of the art chemotherapy and radiation, as well as a really good doctor. I was also anointed with oil and prayed over at church.

Yes, I was healed. Yes, God did it. Was it a miracle? Not really, there was really nothing supernatural about it. Or was there?

The part that is not controllable is my body's reaction to the treatments. Why the treatment worked for me, but doesn't/didn't work for many others is simply not known. Even my doctor said that he only gave me medicine, and that he has no influence on whether it will actually heal my body.
Although I wouldn't defend it as a miracle necessarily, I still believe that God was fully in control of my healing process.

About 3 years after initial treatment, I started having the same symptoms again. I went to the oncologist. [different physician this time because I get care at a military hospital] Upon doing that "doctor-feel" on my neck, her eyes got really big. She starts explaining to me about recurrences and stem-cell transplants, etc. She sends me DIRECTLY to a surgeon [do not pass GO, do not collect $200.] for a lymph node biopsy. She was THAT sure it was back. The biopsy was done two days later and it turned out to be benign, and all the symptoms tapered off and went away. Was THAT a miracle? The doctor could not explain why the symptoms disappeared. She was positive it was back. I even had a PET scan to confirm that I was still cancer-free.

I can tell you one thing for certain: I am no more worthy than anyone else to be healed. I believe God was involved in healing me whether it was through the medicine or without the medicine. But I cannot generalize anything that happened to me and make conclusions about what has happened to others.
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[dooni.david]

You can undergo chemotherapy and at the same time pray to God to cure you. Because Doctors are not going to heal you. It is God who is going to heal you through the Doctors. Undergoing chemotherapy is not a sin . It shows lack of faith in God for your healing .
But If you have firm faith without wavering God is able to heal you without chemotherapy. Because Jesus is the same yesterday , today and tomorrow.

[Tiger of Judah]

Because to one He answers the prayer of healing and to another He doesn't according to His will. So it just wasnt His will for the other to be healed.

[myuutsu]

Something similar has happened to one of my friends before, though not cancer.

He was just a kid, about 8 I guess, and he got a really bad ear infection. He goes to a church full of Bible-thumping Pentecostals and was constantly prayed over. The doctors said gave him some medicine and said if it doesn't work he'd probably become deaf. About a week later, he was healed and currently doesn't have any problems. The church says God healed him, but it was the medicine that REALLY did it.

Miracle cures (ones with no medicine) are very different, are nearly 100% psychological and can be VERY VERY bad. It's kind of like a placebo effect and can mask a very dangerous health situation. Christians today think that God needs to work through the doctors and the pills instead of him just healing them.
P.S. Tiger of Judah, the "Will of God" argument is the worst one any Christian could put forward, as this makes God not only play favorites, but also apathetic and malevolent.

[irksome 101]

first god cares about everyone includin the sinners so i beleive that god has a plan for everyones life so if its your time then its your time. god may need them here on earth cause they arent finished with there job but in order to finish out his plan for there life they needed to take a journy across the shadow of death.