This is the truth before God, I wouldn't lie. My best friends son put a gun in his mouth when he was drunk one night and pulled the trigger. It was the call every mother dreads. She wasn't sure if he would even live until she got to the hospital. Well, after 3 weeks in intensive care and months of recover, the only thing wrong with him is he lost a little hearing in one ear. The bullet is still lodged behind his ear. It penetrated the brain and is sticking under the bone from the impact. The doctors didn't dare remove it.
The doctor told my friend it was a miracle. He said even if he was an expert marksman, there was no way he could've manuvuered that bullet to miss every major nerve, artery and brain tissue as it did. He said it was a miracle that he not only lived but sustained no brain damage.
My friend is a Christian and has spent the last 30 years praying for her children's protection. She believes in her heart that God protected her son. I do too.
2007-03-09 07:47:26 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Laptop - I'm really sorry about your neice.
2007-03-09 08:13:15 · update #1
Darryl - I don't lie.
2007-03-09 08:16:04 · update #2
For we know that ALL things work together for good, to those who love God, and are called according to His purpose.
Just like the ingredients of a cake, such as flour, salt, which are bitter, and sugar which is more desirable. When all the individual ingredients are mixed in together, then the taste is much better. So it is with God. I have always prayed regularly for my children, 2 of which have ended up in intensive care.
One of them almost died, having mashed a kidney and a spleen, but lived. The other just eighteen months later, suffered a tragic accident but died. I don't understand 'why', but this one thing I know - ALL things work together for good to those who love God, and are called according to His purpose. The son who died was just 12 years old, and gave His life to the Lord just days before his accident. That to me, is the greatest miracle.
I believe that the person you write about has been saved from death for a purpose. I trust he does too! I rejoice that his mother prayed and now has her son.
God bless you!
2007-03-09 08:46:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Miracles don't always necessarily come from god... Indeed it's rather foolish to attribute them as such. Medical "miracles" happen all the time. The world record for biggest survived fall without a parachute is 33,000 feet, and there are many more examples. There are also examples where people get shot in the head with a .45 and survive while others get hit with a .22 and die. Bullets are flexible and unpredictable and such a thing really isn't uncommon.
And religious beliefs or convictions make no difference in the statistics of who survives this kind of ordeal or who gets the miraculous survival. Your friend would have been just as likely to survive no matter what he believed.
It's a mistaken assumption that this one improbable event demonstrates god's existence. That's literally seeing one good thing in a sea of bad (why was he depressed enough for suicide to begin with? Was god protecting him then?) and attributing it to god.
If the mother was Nordic and spent 30 years praying to Thor would you believe Thor exists?
2007-03-09 08:02:13 · answer #2 · answered by Mike K 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
First - I totally believe you. There are some amazing things that happen in this world.
Two quick true stories of my own.
I have also known an atheist man who had cancer and when then went to operate it had simply disappeared. The doctors had no explanation. Could you attribute it to god? Sure! But you could contribute it to "we just don't know everything."
My neice. I was told my sister was pregnant when I was 18. I prayed for her every day while she was in the womb. I'd never prayed for anything so hard. My whole family prayed for that baby a lot. (First grandchild and all). Baby was born with a congential heart defect. Thru a "miracle" (and surgery) she got better. A year later, during a routine operation, she died. God? Just something strange? Were our prayers less worthy than your friends?
2007-03-09 07:56:47 · answer #3 · answered by Laptop Jesus 2.0 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I worked in the SICU at a very large hospital for 13 years. These things happen. Prayer has nothing to do with it, it's just dumb luck. I saw a guy once come in after shooting himself in the mouth. His head swelled up bigger than a basketball. A few weeks later he was fine except for a bit of physical deformity left by the path of the bullet. There was no talk of miracle then. Actually, I'm surprised the doctor would say such a thing in the case you mention. All that does is reinforce superstition.
As for your friend's son, I hope he recovered well and has found a way to cope with the difficulties that led him to try and end it as well as the trauma of the attempt.
2007-03-09 07:57:00 · answer #4 · answered by Murazor 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
A better thing for god to do would be to make the gun jam. I know that some christians would say that then god wouldn't have taught a lesson, but if a lesson was to be taught then severe brain damage would have taught it better.
This story does not imply divine intervention.
2007-03-09 07:55:14 · answer #5 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe it. The bullet that went into Pope John Paul II wound all around his organs and missed every single vital one. It was a miracle too.
2007-03-09 08:27:51 · answer #6 · answered by Midge 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think this is what they say when they say you got a praying grandmother this time it´s the mother that is praying and God knows she could not bare the pain so he try his best to protect her in any way he can God is good all the time . remember that.
I know prayer can move mountains just believe in God and all things is possible. I do believe all things is possible through Christ who strength us.
2007-03-09 08:09:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
He's very lucky, but what about all the times that people have put a gun in their mouth and fired while having a parent praying for them, and died.
2007-03-09 08:00:52 · answer #8 · answered by kky1313131313 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
agree, god must have had reasons for not to let him die.Maybe when he'll get older he'll help other people who want to commit suicide.
Every time he goes through one of those metal detector things it will beep. do you guys have to have a doctors note explaining?
2007-03-09 15:35:39 · answer #9 · answered by Love Exists? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes God protected her son but not because of her prayers,it is because God is merciful,she wasn't praying to him she was praying to Jesus who has nothing to do to protect her son,yet God never leaves his servants even if they deny him and don't thank him.
2007-03-09 08:03:33 · answer #10 · answered by shockoshocko 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋