To all you christians...a friend just lost her 6 week old son. How is that gods will?

Answer 1

*awaiting insipid christian answers from scripture and experince and blind faith and HORRIBLE SPELLING like 'condulences'*

This is why we need less praying and more research and coordinated efforts into the health sciences concerning infant deaths and their overall health.

Answer 2

Wow, this question got the blamers and haters into a feeding frenzy !!

How did she lose her 6 week neonate? Was s/he born addicted to oxycontin, meth, heroin or alcohol? That makes them die early.

Was he or she born prematurely; due to trauma in mother's life or lack of medical help and only weighed a portion of what the baby should weigh? That makes them expire quickly or have lots of neurological and ADHD problems.

Was it SID they just found the little one dead in the crib? Didn't mother know the supposedly common knowledge of: don't lay baby on back to sleep...SID might happen.

So, there are 3 guesses about the death of a baby that have nothing to do with God and His will for us. In fact, most of what causes infant mortality is anathema to God's will. So, I would like to suggest ...Comfort to a friend. An honest answer to spoken and unspoken question(s) of "why" ??? "I do not know" is all that is necessary.

Evidence is plentiful that platitudes about God wanting another angel or having special plans that means taking the baby from this world -- are worse than useless...and feed a bereaved person's rage. And the rage can go out at God and He didn't do it. So, just be there for your friend and keep your own doubts and conclusions mum until you can sort them out.

And I commend you for coming here and seeking for some understanding.

Answer 3

If it was a 6 year old or a 60 year old, would it have made a difference? It doesn't seem fair to us. But we do not judge God. I've heard stories similar to this for many years. What amazes me is the difference in response people have. You blame God. I've seen others do the opposite. Now those are the people who impress me. Not those blaming God. We all will experience this type of tragedy at some point in our life. I have to some degree. I will NEVER blame God. He is righteous and just and far more above us. We are in no position to judge God who gives life in the first place.

Answer 4

I am so sorry! I cannot imagine the grief that your friend is experiencing right now. I lost a child to miscarriage years ago, and still grieve the loss.

I wish I could give you an answer that could give you peace. I have no great words of wisdom. I can only tell you that in this imperfect world things happen that we do not understand. I do not believe that God makes these things happen. Why He chooses to not intervene is sometimes beyond my comprehension. I am certain, however, that He weeps with your friend, as I am now.

Answer 5

I am so sorry to hear about your friend's loss. This is a question that is asked often when tragedy happens. I do not think Christians have an answer. One thing I know: we all will experience an end, and some lives are shorter than others.

I do bet that beautiful child was able to teach those around him something valuable in his short span of life.

Answer 6

Your Friend has two choices.# 1 draw closer to God;
2 nd choice let the devil chain Your friend to that Grief, and become Bitter and Hard Hearted toward God that is what Ted Turner did,because His Sister wasn"t Healed He walked away from Call to be a Missionary;I can say this that 6 week old Child is in Heaven,Your Friend will see Him again if He makes right Choice;

Answer 7

The fact is, is that we ALL DIE, sometimes sooner, sometimes later. Children are not exempt from this immutable law of existence, so "God' had nothing to do with it. Remember that not even the "son of God" Jesus, not Mohammed, not Krishna, not Buddha, not ANY avatar escaped the death of the body. The sooner you and your friend accept this fact of existence, the better off you will be. There is a story that a woman ran to the Buddha to beg him to restore her dead child to life, and he said he could only do so if she brought him a handful of rice from a household where nobody had experienced the death of a loved one. Of course, when she went to find such a household, she discovered that there was NO SUCH THING. And thus, her son was not restored to life, and she had to accept the fact.

Answer 8

Its not God's will.

And I'm so sorry for their loss.

I had a sister who died when she was 5 months old and my parents never really recovered from that.

This is the result of sin in the world, not my sister's sin and not that little boy's sin. Its the result of Adam's sin which brought death to all of us.

However I do know that my sister and that little boy are in heaven right now and I'll get to meet my sister some day.

I'd love to have the opportunity to introduce you the the parents who just lost their little boy to Jesus, so that one day they too will be reunited with him.

You guys will be in my prayers.

Pastor Art

Answer 9

Let's see, mankind rebels against God in the beginning, and ever after, everything man does that results in suffering, and misery is God's fault.

There is a lesson to be learned by all -- what life is like when God is rejected in favor of self-rule under the influence of the devil.

Place blame where the blame belongs.

God is going to straiten it all out in the end, and all will see the wisdom in why it was all done this way.

The son will be reunited with the mother later.

Welcome to the world prior to the kingdom of God. Right now, learn what life is like without God running things and in control. Later, when God is ruling and in control, you will see the vast difference.


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Answer 10

I am sad for your friend. There can't possibly be anything more painful in this life than losing a child. It's horrible that she had to go through that.

And death is a part of life. For everything there is a season... etc, etc. Someday your friend will die. In Christ she has hope of being reunited with her son.

It's a harsh, cruel, fallen world. Thank God for hope. Thank God that even though there's the bad stuff, He knows how to make something good from it.

Answer 11

Well sumhow the baby or the babys death could have completely changed someones life but we just dont know it and mabe without that 6 weeks of it being here someone might not of been saved or gone to heaven. God works in strange ways but he did that for a reason. We might not think it was right for that to happen or know why it needed to happen but that baby did something to change somes life in great way.