To be healed, or not to be healed. That is the question!
So here is a scenario for you. A 1 year old child is diagnosed with cancer. It's a rare form and little research has been done. Doctors give her a 10% chance of survival, and warn the parents that this going to require many extensive and painful procedures. The little 1yr old lives with her Dad in the hospital for the next year and a half, slowly getting better after enduring such painful events that we couldn't even imagine. Finally after stem cell transplants, radiation and several bouts of chemotherapy she is deemed cancer free and released to go home and live as normal life as possible. Now riddled with scars both physical and mental, and possibly not able to bare children or be able to grow a full head of hair ever again.
How do you look at this?
My own walk away from the church was strengthened by this story. So many of my close friends looked at this young girl and kept praising god for healing her from such a dire condition. Completely overlooking what pain and torment that she just went through. Who is to blame for all her hurt, all the pain and stress her family and friends went through. The answer is a simple one. No one! No one is to blame for her hurt, it's a sad part of life. People die! It's over and we move on. We also live, laugh and hurt all without god. If god had of been a factor in this little girls life then wouldn't he be to blame for all her pain and suffering as well? The fact is that if we except hod as being her healer then. He is also the cause of her sorrow. What justification could you put forward to her pain, and what about the people that don't make it? Are there lives any less important then hers?
I know I can theologisize(yes I just made that up) it away with the "we don't know Gods reasons, because he has one for everything bull shit" but I just don't buy that. More or less like I don't buy into the faith argument.
Faith healing?
Nope, it was a medical miracle!
Any thoughts on the faith battle would be appreciated.
About Me
- FarFromFaith
- I'm a non believer who has been on a Journey of deconversion (spell check must be a theist because they only have the reconversion in there dictionary, apparently deconversions isn't a word) from Christianity since 2000 when I attended Bible college to try and answer my life long questions about God. I got the same answers I was given my whole life. Trust and have faith! I don't trust what I don't know, therefore I don't have faith in anything that can't give me a reason to believe. Thus beginning my journey of truth and belief in something that make sense!
2 comments:
It is truly impossible for an argument to continue after the representative of the religious side says, "You cannot possibly understand God's reasons."
If this is the case, however, than how can we attribute anything good or bad to God. Perhaps, we don't understand something that seems good to us either.
It seems to me, if there was an omnipotent power commanding all in the universe, the world would be somewhat more ordered. Would this God not present itself to all of its creations, not just to a percentage of them?
If one does not agree with that assertion than: is this world that we are experiencing truly the best God can do...really? And if so, is this God worth devoting ones prayers, time and resources to?
I say, no.
I agree that there is often a double standard. IF god can be attributed to having caused the cure (pay no heed to the science of the last 100 years that led to the breakthroughs which made it possible for her to live), then he MUST also be given his due to those that don't make it. Christians don't see it, and don't want to see it.
Just think what the parents and friends would be saying about god if we all lived 100 years ago, and there were no live-saving procedures available for her.
"God's will be done".
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