A Christian has a heart-attack, his wife calls 911. Two atheist paramedics arrive and safely rush him to ER?

Question

The ER doctor is a Budhist and keeps the man alive, until an operating room is available. The catholic Heart Surgeon performs triple by-pass surgery. The entire team of medical people, the anestheologist, the nurses, the people who prep and sterilize the equipment....etc, etc, are a mixed group of many beliefs.

The Christian man wakes, from his surgery and his family is there at his bedside and they say......"we are so happy you made it....we spent all night praying for you".

In your opinion, who was responsible for saving the man's life and why?

Answer 1

i happen to be on one of those teams and i can tell you, it's a team effort, no faith or religion is needed

Answer 2

All of them and God because the Paramedics all the doctors nurses had learned there job well to save the man each was a step that needed to be taken to save the mans life including prayer.
The reason prayer because the man had faith it helped keep him alive If he had given up hope he would have likely died You hear this from doc's in the ER all the time even when there not believers If you believe you can be saved your chances are better.

Answer 3

Being a paramedic for many years, experience would tell me that if the wife didn't call 911 in the first place, he wouldn't have even meet any of the other people from different religions, or no religion along the way, so she wins the award!

Answer 4

God.

The surgical team had the necessary skills, but eventually, man will die. In your case, he didn't die then.

Yes the family "prayed all night", but who were the prayers for? When you have no other hope, prayer is a natural response.

We live with two belief systems: science and revelation. Science explains what we can observe; revelation tell us about what we can't. Your question try to combine both systems that leads to contradiction and confusion.

Answer 5

Well sure, the entire group was responsible for saving this man's life, but wouldn't have had the opportunity if the WIFE hadn't first called 911.

Answer 6

An old man arrives at a hospital and a very young woman performs surgery on his heart. He opens his eyes 4 days later and finds out a woman saved him....... Should he be upset because it is a woman that saved him, or because the hospital is careless to supply a child for his aid?.....

A KKK member is going into convulsions falls upon the ground, A black man seeing the man jerking, runs to his aid, offering CPR. The KKK member can now breathe on his own, but goes into a coma....... a month later finds out that a black man saved him...... Is he thankful for his life?.... or is he upset he still has it because of a black man?...

I say... when it comes to life and death... and a man passes it up for the sake of prejudice in any form........... He certainly is a fool that deserves to die in as great a pain as is suffered upon him...


Your sister,
Ginger

Answer 7

Everyone who did anything to help him of course from the person who called 911, to the medical personnel to the people who sterlized the equipment or actually even made it months before he ever had his heart attack. Why is this even a question? What is it suppose to prove or determine?

Answer 8

I think the answer you're seeking is if these professionals all did such wonderful things then are they not worthy of acceptance by God. God is holy and man is sinful. For God to accept man he had to make him holy. Man can't make himself holy.

Man has free will. These verses show that believing in the way that God made for us to come to him is how we are able to do so.

John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

We can do all the good we can possibly do but if we do not turn from sin and go to God then all our good can't make us holy. We have chosen to reject his way. In John 14:6 the bible says - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Answer 9

God is responsible. God can move people around like peices on a chess board. He can move on our lives in indirect ways. Like a story I once heard....

A man went on an expedition to the North Pole. He became separated from his group along the way and was freezing to death. He prayed, "If there is a God out there, please save me!" After many hours of prayer and hollering and shivering, a band of hunters from an eskimo tribe appeared on the horizon. They brought him to a small village hospital.

His friend showed up at the hospital, very relieved and approached the rescued man saying, "Oh thank GOD you were saved! We were so worried!"

The rescued man replied,"GOD?! God didn't save me, I was found by a buncha' eskimos".

God can use those in the world, believer or not, to heal us or rescue us in time of need.

Answer 10

In my opinion, the people involved in the man's rescue were solely responsible for saving his life.

The alternative view implies that credit for anything good goes to God, and blame for anything bad goes to Man. If he'd died, it would be the doctor's fault, but since he lived, God is Great.

Answer 11

The entire team helped out in their own way. But I guess the person who was most responsible was the surgeon, but everyone played their part. Whatever their beliefs, it did not factor into this situation.