I believe far to many people have let themselves die because of being too naive. I'm sorry he died, I really am, but I'm also afraid that God may see it as suicide, he allowed himself to die, in a way, he caused it. God didn't give us brains and the ability to heal ourselves if he didn't want us to. God gave us skin, and blood, and organs, and cells, etc. because he wantes us to learn, he gave us a brain and the ability to comprehend some of it and the ability to fix some of it. God is so powerful that we could all be walking/talking 'baloons' filled with nothing but air, we could be hollow and still be alive, by his will and power alone. He filled our bodies with parts and organs and blood.
I had real religious person tell me once that her baby was born with a mental defect, and it's brought her closer to him because she's had to worker harder and closer with him to help get him through things and that she believes thats how God wanted it and even if medical science could have fixed him while int he wound, playing with DNA, she wouldn't want it. So what if her baby had a defect that would kill him within the first month of being born, would she want the change then? She says no, it's God's will. By her reasoning then, I believe she should never take tylenol or aspirin when she has a fever, fevers can kill people, and by taking aspirin or tylenol, we're undoing God's will. That fever was supposed to kill us.
We get a fever, we take Tylenol. We lose blood, we replace it. We get a broken arm, we mend it. We get a heart attack, we do a bypass. If there's a baby who is born with an extra chromosome, we remove it, if there's one missing, we add it. Nothing more. No modification, no changes, just repairs. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If God didn't want us transfusing blood, why have blood types? Why not make everybody incompatible with one another?
Sorry about all this, I've just seen too many people let themselves die for religious reasons, and I've seen too many people kill for religious reasons. If somebody held a gun to my head and told me to renounce God or die, I'd expect I'd die, but if somebody told me I have a fever and to swallow this tylenol or die, then I'm taking the tylenol. Taking tylenol does not renounce God, and taking life-saving blood given by somebody in hopes of saving a person's life, does not go against God. But then again, what do I know?
Anyways, I'm sorry about your loss. You have my condolences, I'll pray for him. |
