The tragic case of two college girls who looked like twins. They were involved in a crash and one was killed. Mistakes at the scene meant that the girl who died was thought to be the survivor and vice versa. The family who thought their daughter survived spent 5 weeks at her hospital bedside praying for her recovery from serious injuries and a coma. The parents of the "dead" girl were grief stricken and buried who they thought was their daughter.
As it turned out, the identities were mixed up. The parents of the "dead" girl discovered 5 weeks later that their daughter was alive. The parents who had prayed all that time discovered they had been praying for someone else's child - their own daughter was dead.
It was a horrible case. My question is this. Both families were deepely religious, originally claiming the work of god in both cases. The "surviving" daughter was claimed to be spared by god.
So, was god just playing a sick joke? Is this an example of prayer working?
2006-06-07 14:56:04 · 9 answers · asked by dogbreath 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are all missing the point. Both deeply religious families claimed communication with god, that god had settled their minds. For the "dead" child the family claimed god had responded that she was in his care. For the child in hospital the family claimed that god was talking to them and to their daughter and had answered their prayers.
Are religious believers naturally delusional by claiming these things, or is god sick? It's a perfectly valid question.
2006-06-08 00:23:59 · update #1
god is the sick joke
2006-06-07 16:04:15 · answer #1 · answered by ethical_atheist 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure that the God we know would never "play a sick joke." It was a terrible mistake which turned out well for one set of parents and horrible for the other. I can't even imagine what they went through and it makes me wonder why the medical people didn't use dental records to begin with before putting these parents through this ordeal. I think that was the reason for the mix up, lack of thorough investigating. It truly was sad and tragic.
2006-06-07 15:03:44 · answer #2 · answered by spitonapit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was/is a terrible and tragic situation but WHY would you blame God. People made mistakes--God did not make those mistakes for them.
I am sure the family whose daughter is still alive feels blessed by God just as the family of the girl who is dead must feel crushed by the agony of their loss. But AGAIN--God did not cause the wreck to happen, and He did not cause the one set of parents to refuse to look at what they were told was their dead daughter, and He did not cause the hospital to not check dental records or do tests that would have made them certain of which was which.
The only thing sick is that you want blame God for everything that goes wrong in your life or in the world. It doesn't work that way. You are not a puppet and He is not sitting on His throne pulling your strings. He created you will free will--just as He did the rest of us. You get to choose--what you do and when you do it. You choose what you think and believe and how you act on those thoughts. You even get to reject having a relationship with the Creator of the universe if YOU so choose. He made provision for you to have a personal relationship with Him. He had to create the way since you could never have done it yourself. But He let's you choose. He will not force you to love Him, or even to talk to Him, or to worship Him, or even to believe in Him. You Choose! You bear the consequence of this decision just as you do with other decisions.
Time to wake up.
Read the Book of John then Matthew (links below)--gain some understanding.
2006-06-07 15:28:31 · answer #3 · answered by bigrob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember hearing about that and I can't imagine a God so twisted as that really existing, and if he did I think I would rather be in Hell because Lucifer has never done anything as twisted as some of the things God does.
2006-06-07 15:46:48 · answer #4 · answered by Joe Shmoe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That wasnt God, that was pure human stupidity.
No, It is an example of a few paramedics that are ready to lose their jobs.
The families think its about God because they are predisposed to the metaphysical, they are both deeply religious.
Maybe God was saying "WAKE UP YOU MORONS THAT ISNT YOUR DAUGHTER"
2006-06-08 22:05:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not make jokes. He did not kill the girl. She was in an accident. Theri parents were human, both praying for the best-nothing more.
2006-06-07 15:09:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God never plays jokes. God does everything for a wisdom He only knows. You're the sick one.
2006-06-07 15:04:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the mistake wasent made by god it was made by the people at the hospital .. and if both girls was badly disfigured why dident they do dna on the girl to make sure wich girl was which.before they told the parents of the identy
2006-06-07 16:33:31 · answer #8 · answered by purple 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
2006-06-07 15:10:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋