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Instead of playing Where's Waldo, let's play Where's God. In the picture below, where's God?
Sorta like a mortician?God is waiting for him should the medics fail.
If doctors and nurses are doing all they can to save the man, one would wander why God is just "at his side".If the patient is christian he would have been comforted with strenght from God to pass that suffering.
You don't know how valuable it is to have God at your side when things go really bad.
But usually not?Also God heals... (sometimes).
Psalms 82 tells us we are all gods and children of the Most High, even though we must die like men. As such, we help the afflicted and needy. Jesus referred to it in John 10:34 in regard to His good works and when He was condemned for, as a man, making Himself God… “Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?” God makes Himself present in many ways, even through us.Instead of playing Where's Waldo, let's play Where's God. In the picture below, where's God?
Sorta like a mortician?
What if somebody is praying for the man? Does God still just stay in standby in case the medics fail?
If doctors and nurses are doing all they can to save the man, one would wander why God is just "at his side".
This is serious. Shouldn't he be helping?
But usually not?
That doesn't sound a whole lot different from an atheistic view of the universe, where the forces of the universe are present in people as they work good.God makes Himself present in many ways, even through us.
Interesting. In Christian America, 125,000 people have died of Covid. And yet you say Christians have a lot better chance of getting something from God? Why didn't the dying get the help they needed?for one people reject him so why should he? you have a lot better chance of getting something from God if you are his child.
God is there watching and comforting him. But as the Bible teaches, God generally operates according to natural law not supernaturally intervening. But of course, everything that happens is part of his plan for that person.Sorta like a mortician?
What if somebody is praying for the man? Does God still just stay in standby in case the medics fail?
If doctors and nurses are doing all they can to save the man, one would wander why God is just "at his side".
This is serious. Shouldn't he be helping?
But usually not?
Jesus Himself was not spared an earthly death. God's blessings during our life is something else.Interesting. In Christian America, 125,000 people have died of Covid. And yet you say Christians have a lot better chance of getting something from God? Why didn't the dying get the help they needed?
How can a loving God watch what is going on in the ICUs, have the power to intervene, but instead just choose watching and comforting? That does not make sense to me.God is there watching and comforting him. But as the Bible teaches, God generally operates according to natural law not supernaturally intervening.
Kudos to all the people who helped out here.Let me tell you a story. My wife received a breathless call from a gentleman, while working in casualty. Now firstly, my wife had been ignoring the phone all day, as people were calling about nonsense and distracting her from her actual patients. This man was clearly distressed and she advised he goes to hospital, giving him numbers for ambulances. The nursing sister then had misgivings and so they called the pathology lab to get his results and found his home number and address, which they had neglected to ask for. This sister then proceeded to call ambulance services, where the private didn't accept his medical aid and the public were swamped already - until one finally accepted, the service my wife likes to describe as cowboys. They found him half-dead at home, his call to my wife's unit being the last call he had breath for, and rushed him in. Although his medical aid gave issues, they brought him in to my wife's hospital, where miraculously they now had one ventilator, instead of the one where they should have taken him which had none. The covid unit here is run by a great pulmonologist, who came out to intubate him, and he is doing well now. Still intubated, but with FiO2 down to a reasonable 40%.
Some improve rapidly. Some rapidly deteriorate. How do you know those that improved were caused by God?Or at the Academic hospital I work at, the professor gave a patient such a poor prognosis, he said she was not for escalation of care if she deteriorates. Suddenly, within 48 hours, she totally turned around.
God intervened by causing a clerical error? How do you know that it was God working? Mistakes happen all the time. And if a god caused it, how do you know it was not Thor or Jupiter that caused the clerical error?Or a clerical error getting a lovely 76 year old woman a scarce ICU bed, while she should have been excluded based on age and co-morbidities, and she walked out there.
You can write all these off as coincidence upon coincidence if you wish, but God is very much active here in my opinion. Even an Atheist colleague of mine said this pandemic will make people believe in God.
Death is the way good people get to go home and the way bad people quit doing bad stuff, so what is the problem?How can a loving God watch what is going on in the ICUs, have the power to intervene, but instead just choose watching and comforting? That does not make sense to me.
Because suffering often brings spiritual growth and spiritual growth is how part of His plan to destroy evil forever works. A vending machine does not produce spiritual growth.How can a loving God watch what is going on in the ICUs, have the power to intervene, but instead just choose watching and comforting? That does not make sense to me.
Because life is good. Death deprives us of that good.Death...what is the problem?
...but ventilators do?Because suffering often brings spiritual growth ...
A vending machine does not produce spiritual growth.
Unless you're an amputee... he hates those guys in particular.