(January 21, 2015 at 4:30 pm)Nope Wrote: The young girl's parents believed god spoke specifically to their daughter to stop her treatment which ended up killing her. How can you believe both that your god speaks to some random little girl in Canada but doesn't also help people suffering hunger in other countries. I agree with your overall post that we should help others but your misunderstanding the point that some people are trying to make.
If you are a Christian, don't you ask yourself what the point is? What is the point of this girl dying when she had medical care available to her? Why would you god appear to her and tell her to use alternative medicine which won't help her?
You and I view life and death differently. I assume that you feel this life is the most important thing to anybody. I believe that this life is important also, but not as important as eternal life with God. We can't put ourselves in the place of the girl and her parents. Obviously, they were convinced that the chemo therapy nearly killed her. She had been through it and didn't want to go through any more. She was convinced that God spoke to her. Who knows? She chose the path that gave her more peace. She could have gone through more grueling chemo and then died anyway.
Who says that God isn't helping people in other countries? Every day there's people there helping the needy. Like I said, God doesn't usually just reach down and heal somebody. He helps others through us. That is the message of Jesus. I believe he helped the girl in this story, but she died. Maybe she lived and died better than if she had continued conventional treatment. But at any rate, I believe that she is much better off now. That doesn't mean I think we should just kill all kids so they can go to heaven. We all have a mission to fulfill here and we have no right to murder. But there is a time, when we are ill, to stop fighting and let it go. People make that decision every day. I guess if many were to believe in God he would have to be the kind to just make everything wonderful, but that not the way he made it. We have to struggle. We've pretty much all managed to accept that fact of life.
