In referance to the killings at the Amish school house in Penn.
Sam Stoltzfus, 63, an Amish woodworker who lives a few miles away from the shooting scene, said the victims' families will be sustained by their faith.
"We think it was God's plan and we're going to have to pick up the pieces and keep going," he said. "A funeral to us is a much more important thing than the day of birth because we believe in the hereafter. The children are better off than their survivors."
2006-10-04 07:00:33 · 21 answers · asked by Nora Explora 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. They know their children are with God and that they'll see them again one day.
2006-10-04 07:03:04 · answer #1 · answered by Grape Ape 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It was "not" God's plan that took their lives. It is the evil in this world and man that took their lives. I do know that the death of a loved one can change people's lives but no one wishes a death to happen, and it grieves God also to see these little girls die.
Having faith in God has gotten me through the loss of my 29 year old daughter who passed away due to juvenile diabetes complications. And it's also faith in God that has gotten my daughters twin little girls through the loss of their mommy.
I don't believe with the latter statement he said about the funeral being more important than the birth. The new life of a child is very precious, and God loves the little children.
2006-10-04 14:05:07 · answer #2 · answered by son-shine 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Their faith is amazing! They loved their children very much & will miss them. They are blessed to have as much faith as they have to get them through. One of the elders of the Amish church went so far as to go to the killers house to tell the family that they forgive him. They never question God, now that's what Christ would have done. Could you or me done the same?
2006-10-04 15:14:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is my opinion, and it is based partly, I said partly on scripture. When a person is born, the angels in heaven weep because it is not known weather a person will choose the Lord or reject Him. There is always a chance that the person will stray, and never come to know the Lord. It is good to have that much faith, but God also knows our hearts and knows that something this tragic and sorrowful will cause some of us to be irrational at times like this in someones life. I have not seen anything that says this family has not done anything else but rely on their faith. A person HAS to experience first hand the true feelings of what the family is going through. I believe in all my heart there is a God, but in a situation like that Ido not know if I could handle it or not. IF they have that much faith, I envy them. I pray to God no one ever has to go through it to find out.
2006-10-04 14:14:26 · answer #4 · answered by Ex Head 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. And out of respect for the families and the Amish people, I think we should be there in mass tomorrow to block the Hate group that plans on protesting at the funerals. Whatsoever you do to/for the least of my brothers, that you do unto me. God Bless
2006-10-04 14:04:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You better believe there is life after death.
You better believe also that God gives and God takes back. All of life is borrowed from God, no one is exempted. We were all born to die, sooner or later one way or the other in due time.
Those dead children have received an early present from our Creator, they do not have to pay the price of growing old, such as getting sick and other, psychological, emotional, spiritual, financial and mental anguishes while on this plain
2006-10-04 14:27:17 · answer #6 · answered by Ely C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It might be a comfort but it isn't reality and I think it is a horrible way to view the girls who died, the sheer and utter horror they faced before that gun was put to their little heads. God's plan? An all-loving God's plan to have these children terrified to death, for NO good reason at all? A child's life ended abrubtly makes them "better off"?
My heart breaks for those children and their families, but their belief sickens me. God's plan, only a SICK God? Whatever!
2006-10-04 14:05:19 · answer #7 · answered by FreeThinker 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm glad that helps them, but I could just as easily say "we're going to have to pick up the pieces and keep going" without any need to bring a god into it.
People have great strength on their own and I think religion sometimes overshadows that strength.
2006-10-04 14:03:50 · answer #8 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I know it sounds bad,but those poor little children are with Jesus, now. They are better off than we are here on this terrible place we have to live in.. I am so sorry for their pain, but I pray they did not suffer, and went real fast, it hurts me in my heart,any time I hear of a little child haveing to die like this, I can hardly bear it, all I can do is know they are with GOD, and be happy for them for this anyway..
2006-10-04 14:11:29 · answer #9 · answered by littlecwoman 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I was watching the news last night and this woman was very calmly explaining to the newsperson interviewing her that when you "have Christ in you", what you need to do is forgive. I burst into tears. To hear His name proclaimed in that way touched my heart profoundly. And yes, may God bless these dear people in their grief, and praise God for the message of redemption that is going forth from them.
2006-10-04 14:14:59 · answer #10 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith can be a comfort I suppose, to people in pain. The little lies we tell ourselves to make things better. I don't think that's a valid justification for being religious, however. Just because heroin dulls your pain, doesn't mean its a good thing.
2006-10-04 14:03:50 · answer #11 · answered by Skippy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋