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[Drich]

What of the faithful who have prayed and begged for his mercy but were denied it?

Without a doubt denial is apart of the process. We were 'denied' for several years before our prayers were answered. Often time were are broken down and taken well past our limits. That is one way we can be sure that what happened is not from anything we can do. For instance with the herion addiction we struggled through we struggled many many years, and the night I had all but completely given up, so before i went to sleep I learned what it means to give something over completely to God. That night we got a knock on the door that marked the begining of the end of her addiction.

Again while the events were completely normal, our stepping through them after that night and subsequent sucess isn't.

Your point suggests that the reason we have not witnessed any miracles is because we lack the faith to suffer through some trial from which god can save us.

Faith has little to do with honoring a comitment to knock no matter what.

I have watched pious people, a couple of the most devout Christians a person could imagine, suffer and ultimately die from cancer.

Death is not a bad thing here. Christ likens it to a seed being destroyed in the germination process that ultimatly set forth a new life/plant. Meaning our death here is our birth into eternity.

Why were their prayers not answered?

How do you know they weren't? Maybe it is not what they would want for themselves at the moment, but without a doubt now they would not give up what they have been given to come back if all is as you say it was.

Why did god not answer the prayers of the family and community?

Because God answered the prayer in the way that was better for the indivisual. Their death also had purpose in that it made people/you question what it is you know about prayer and God. (Made you realize what you understood to be true was not true.)

These were people who truly lived their lives based on biblical teachings and Christian ideology. If god were to intercede in the lives of mere mortals, they would have surely been worthy of divine intervention. Yet, he did not. They both suffered through terrible disease, one dying and then the other living without his wife until his death from the same ailment years later.

we none of us have been promised a 'good' death. More often than not we meet our ends in ways we would not want for ourselves. However in death especially bad deaths those who are left are made to examine a faith they may not have thought about in sometime.

These were people who endured and died without receiving an answer or a miracle. They exhausted all medical treatments; only a miracle would have saved them. God never showed up as you say he promised to. Of course, you and others will explain this away. If their cancer had been cured, it would have been a miracle granted by god. Their deaths? Well, the good lord called them home.

It's unbelievable that people can think like this.

God showing up again is something that happens on the inside, if these people where who you said you were they had their prayers answered in their life times. Again what God does is to secure the eternal life of the believer and does what is best for them. Not what is best for everyone else, especially when they have a corrupt view of Him or prayer.