I have been through hell and back and men much closer to God than I died and I didn't, why?

Question

I don't even believe in God, so why would he "save" me? Why would he let others, who prayed to him every day, die?

How does this make any sense at all?

Sandy
Every day I go to the beach and look out at the Ocean and watch the Sun set and look for the "Green Flash" and smell the cool sea air and feel the sand and cool water upon my feet and drink my cool beer and think of my fallen brothers and how they should be here with me to enjoy. But God had other ideas, which I hold him responsible for. Maybe I'll live forever, so he wont have to answer to me when I get there ;-)

Middlefinger!
Doesn't have a clue!

Answer 1

The good die young. God needed those people back in Heaven. What they were sent to Earth for they achieved. You obviously haven't acomplished what you were sent to Earth to do. When you do, he will send for you too.

Answer 2

You've had a lot of wordy answers here...some good. Others would have been better kept in the minds of the writers.

First of all, I'm going to assume that you mean by Hell and Back that you are speaking metaphorically?

You didn't die because it simply wasn't your time to go. I'm going to put it to you this way:

When 9/11 happened there were survivors. One or two of those survivors boarded and air bus one week later. It crashed and they died. Why? Because within that one week, there was something that they had to do.

Why do horrible people live to be 95 and yet there are children who die from AIDS?

You are searching for an answer that you simply cannot find an answer to. Instead of feeling angry that you are here, you need to move on and try to be thankful for the time you have left.

We are all walking the thin line between life and death. How many more walks on the beach will you have? How many more full moons will you see? How many favorite meals will you have?

You cannot know these things.

Praying does not save a person from death. If it is your time, you will die regardless of prayer. Perhaps we are simply playing out scripts that we wrote for ourselves prior to coming into this life?

The important thing is that you are still here. So what are you going to do about it? Rather than drown in beer and self pity, I would suggest as one human being to another that you find a way to get on with life. You have time left. Make the world a better place. Smile at someone who needs a smile. Help someone who needs help. Build houses with Habitat for Humanity.

Helping others will help you find peace within yourself. Be happy for your life. It is a miracle that you were born at all.

(Why does this stupid spell check not work?!)

Answer 3

I finally found my kid brother!! I used to be confused about the "why's" you concern yourself with now, but not too long ago, I finally figured it out. In a way chiodosluv has the right answer, and shirley e's got a handle on it too. Believe me, I've been where you are, and my son is sure I'm Superman due to all the things I've lived through and come out in full strength, the last thing having been run over by a train while on the job and drug down the track almost 200 feet by my right leg that I once had. And that's only ONE of the things. The Vietnam war being another. So why are you still alive, and all the others not, even moreso because you're not a believer. He's got His reasons. Wake up, Kid bro!! He's looking right at you, and if you'll shut up with all your questions, He might be able to get a word in edgewise!! Love ya, Brother, and believe me, I AM the brother you never knew about. God Bless you.

Answer 4

If this life was all we ever had, then this would indeed be very unjust. According to the Bible though, this life is not what matters. It's not the main event!
To a Christian, death is not punishment. Many Christians were willing to die as martyrs through the centuries. Why? Because they didn't value this life as much as the life that begins with our death.
Here's what Paul writes in his letter to the Philippians:

Chapter 1,
21For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain

When I was 5years old, my father died and 3years ago, my sister died. They were both Christians.
I don't need to tell you what kind of sadness the death of a loved one brings. The one thing that does give me comfort though, is the fact, that they are now with their heavenly father. They are in a place where there is no more suffering, no more sorrows and no more pain or tears.
I miss them every day of my life but I am not sad for them!
I think the reason why God did spare you and not the life of more godly men around you, is that they were ready to meet their maker and you were not.

Answer 5

Its my opinion and only mine..God gave us the tools of life and the prayers to help us survive..And if you look back you must have learned from what he taught you.

If a man drowns and he didn't use his life jacket, it could mean that if he had used this jacket he would have survived. Why he might have said son, why didn't you use the jacket I provided for you?
God is not to blame for what we do to our selves. If we run out of gas for the car and had to walk 5 miles in the darkest streets alone.Its not Gods fault, you should have bought gas at the last Station you passed.


He provides us with tools and gas and the know how.. So why don't we use them?

Sometimes the answer is right in front of us,but we do not see it.
I'm not overly Religious but I believe in God.

You survived because you had the tools and the strength to go on.

God loves us all whether we believe in him or not.

Just my opinion

Sincerely, Kathy letusdance0317

Answer 6

Everything is fine with you, but you stop thinking that God is at a far off place called heaven and you are longing to go there where you will have a dialogue with him. My dear, God is next to you. He is always with you, almost twenty four hours a day and sixty seconds a minute. He is within the cover, you have to dis-cover by merging your consciousness with His consciousness that you are witnessing by the seashore and through the waves and the sky. Stop taking beer and continue watching, you will confront Him. This is what happened to Capra, a nuclear Physicist by the sea beach. He discovered God and discovered himself that fateful evening!

Answer 7

You are thoroughly confused. Decide once and for all whether you believe in god or you do not and then the answers to your questions will start falling in place.

If you believe the answer is simple and straightforward. Immualble are the was of god and it is not given to us mortals to understand them much less to question. As Tennyson said in his famous poem Long March it is not for us to question /There is but to do and die. On hindsight we can say that the order of the English general to give 'Forward March' order to his few hundred men against 50,000-odd strong army of the Russain was suicidlal.But nobody challenged it at the time and with muffled drems they went on beating funeral march to the grave. They lost the battle but England won the war.The Long March has always proved a motivaing song for our soldiers.Thus as a true, disciplined soldier of god's army it behoves you not to overwork our brains in trying to understand the overall strategy of god.

Now let us come to where you don't believe in god. Beware this is not an area for those the feeble-hearted. There is no god here to fall back upon. You have to implicitly accept that whatever happens is as 'ordained' by natural laws.(The ordained has been put in inverted comma to emphasise its inevitablty and not to equate Nature with a godhead ordering things about) I had come across a French novel where is a non-believer but he does not arrogate to himself the position of a libertine. He does not take it as a license to do what pleased him.But rationally analyse things and events. Taking the case of your long lost brothers I hope they were not victims of some incurable malady. But if they were why don't you think that with the evolving of new remedies they could have been saved.Atheism is not necessarily a nihilistic attitude but an attempt to appreciate the flow of even as a course of natural forces.When Darwin suggested that we were perhaps descendents of monkeys-like creatures we, who thought ourselves to be the special creation of god, fell from heaven down to the hard earth. Atheism lend you the strength to suffer this impact and still keep your faith.Atheists do not necessarily deride the believers because they are aware that it is given only to a Columbus who firmly believed in a Western seaway to the orient to face all the uncertainties of the uncharted oceans.If you inculcate that faith in you the pinpricks of existence will never bother you.d

And God(if there is a god) will be proud of you for being courages enough to hold youself persoanlly reponsible for your fortunes and misfrotunes rather than running to Him every now and then.

Be a Theist or an Atheist, whatever you choose but hold fast to the anchor of faith.

Answer 8

You are getting a lot of good answers.
First, we don't know the mind of God.
Second, He has a time and a place for each of us. When we finish our missions on earth, He will bring us home. Most of us never know what our mission is so we don't know when we are done or not. Some of us have our lives prolonged in order to be able to complete our mission, whatever that might be. The Book of Mormon says that the people in the days of Noah had their lives prolonged in order for them to repent. Sometimes our days are shortened through the wicked agency of others, we become victims of someone else's bad acts.
Lastly, I think it is important to know that God is aware of all of His children, and that includes every man and woman who has ever lived and will ever live on this earth. Regardless of what happens, justly or unjustly, He will make it right in the end. If we seek to do what is right on this earth, then we will go back to His presence at the right time, according to His wisdom.

Answer 9

Well, if you're asking for the Christian answer, I believe it
would probably come from Job: Where were you when ...

Do you really question God's wisdom?

Me? I'm agnostic. I don't know what to believe - but I generally
don't try to make an omnipotent being try to conform to Earthly
rules.

Be glad you are back. Mourn those you lost.

Try to understand what has happened so that it doesn't eat
you up for the rest of your life. Don't get too worried if it
never makes sense, though.

I hope it gets easier.

Answer 10

God has different jobs for different people. Some of those jobs are on earth; some people finish their jobs on earth and are called to eternity.

If you don't believe in God, why are you asking about his motives?

But anyway, you are equating longer life on earth as being somehow "saved." You mean "not called home yet." The world is fallen, and as long as we live in it, we have not yet worked out our salvation. That is, you may have been "spared from death," but you are enjoying no happy holiday here on this planet.

Answer 11

You went to sleep and had a bad dream. If you die and go to hell that's it no coming back. And if people say they died and went to Heaven and came back, I say, they have a screw loose, I get to Heave I'm not come back down here, this earth it to close to hell, and the only time I will return is when Jesus comes with me.