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Question: Have you ever had this feeling!? Relating to life and death I guess!.!?
Lets say you have a family member who is sick, very sick, with cancer!. Or another serious illness!. Maybe a failing heart lets say!. And when the heart begins to get really bad, almost failing, you take them to get a heart transplant!. Everything goes smoothly and the person comes out alive and healthy as ever!.
Now, what has happened technically is saving someones life!. Well something like this happened to me!. They were supposed to die!. If it were a world without science or updated medicine or any of that, that person would not be here!.
Of course I'm grateful as ever I don't mean to sound morbid please don't take it that way!. But I couldn't help to feel overwhelming bizarreness about the situation!. Especially at times just watching them!. Just thinking, 'You're not supposed to be here right now!. Every action and motion and moment of life you are having is not supposed to be happening"!.
I guess it comes to be a personal belief!. Do you at times believe that there is just a way of things, that there is a plan!. It is strange that our level of medicine can almost go against God's plan, or is it a miracle!?
Has anyone been in this situation and felt the same thing!? I hope I explained this well enough!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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God gave us brains!. we are supposed to use the gifts that he gave us and that includes technology!. my older sister was not supposed to live past her second birthday!. it was thought to be impossible!. the doctors didn't preform any crazy surgeries but the ones that they would on someone who had a less severe case of what she had!. she survived till she was 20!. that was a miracle!. i cannot imagine being my parents and knowing that their baby is going to die before them!. that they would have to bury a second child!. there was nothing they could do!. but she lived!. her whole life was not supposed to happen!. medical science gave her a chance that she wouldn't have had 50 years ago!. and i don't know too many people who would say that she shouldn't have lived!. that we should have just let her die!. it is our need to live that makes us human!. that makes us fear and feel joy when we dodge the bullet!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Modern medical science is a mercy,!. God handles mankind's ability to alter conditions with total Justice!. The other side of Justice is Opportunity!. How one is grateful, conducts one's life and love, with a man-based extension, counts as well, in the learning school we call Earth!.
"The Great Divorce," C!. S!. Lewis,
"Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves,
"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
No, nothing like that has ever happened to me but I think you just watched too many movies like "Final Destination" for example!.
Anyways, I believe that it is what we do that shapes our fate and our future!. Our life is in our hands and sometimes the hands of another person!. We just need to make sure that we have total control of it or we'll lose it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
It was god's plan to keep them alive!.
It was just showing everyone that everything can be taken away in a instant!.
If you believe in god, you would think that god gave humans science to help ourselves with so in fact it was god's plan to leave your family member alive in the end!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
You shouldnt feel that way no matter what way you look at it!. for example if its up to fate or god or miracle you werent meant to die, obviously that is why things worked out to your advantage!. so theres no reason for you to feel that way even if life was just random series of events or coincidence then that would mean then thered be no reason for you to think you 'shouldnt be alive' or even be alive!. The point is you ARE alive!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Ya know i read this part:
Just thinking, 'You're not supposed to be here right now!. Every action and motion and moment of life you are having is not supposed to be happening"!.
And all i can say is maybe they were never supposed to die at that point in their life!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I believe that God's plan supersedes any technology that may prolong a life!. In other words,if someone is meant to get better they will!.If not they will die in spite of the technology!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I personally don't think of "miracles" when something like that happens!.
when a mother makes the choice to feed her baby instead of letting it starve, is she defying god!? Of course not!
But when a doctor does a life-saving procedure, and saves a patient, suddenly it's "against god's plan"
Both the doctor and the mother make the same decision, But why is one so much more evil than the other!?
Either way, lives are preserved!
I simply don't see the logic behind "god's plan"
If anyone does, please enlighten me!.Www@QuestionHome@Com