If not God... then explain to me....Who or What?

Question

PLEASE READ ALL:My parents were foster parents for 18 years of my life, their first foster child was a baby named Jesse. Baby Jesse had 3/4 of his brain removed b/c of things his mother did. He had no brain function to have ANY motor skills or sight,ect. Basically my parents were told he just needed somone to love him till he died. My parents being believers, could not accept that. Baby Jesse started showing improvement after 3 mos. My parents continued to pray and try to convince the doctors he could see. Well finally long after he SHOULD have died,he was put up for adoption.Legally he had to do tests and be checked out,ect. Come to find out...w/o a brain, he could somehow see?! 7 years later, we kept in contact, and when he spoke with my dad he was so anxious to get off the phone to go ride his bike...? Keep in mind: NO brain @ all to have mobility. Some of the TOP doctors couldn't even explain it "logically". If God didn't do a miraculous work in his life, explain to me what did???

How can you tell me that prayer doesn't work when there is a liffe of a child to prove otherwise?

If God doesn't exist, please give me a logical/factual explination of what allowed this child to live a NORMAL life with only 1/4 of a brain....?

I am not trying to convince you to believe just wondering if you can explain to me this situation with any other explination than God?

If so please share... I can't think of one, and I am a very well educated individual.

Nice way to skirt the question X....

Study God's Healing Covanent then you would understand that God does not pick and choose... For some, they have things in their own life holding them back form healing, For others who pray...Death is life in Christ So in actuality they do recieve total healing. Study...then question...then you don't sound so ignorant.

Physically had 3/4 REMOVED TOTALLY...Should have died after 6 mos or so, should have lived no longer than a year. Why would I lie about this? This is someone VERY important to me.

You're right...There is NO way he should have been able to live... EXACTLY MY POINT!

My parens were foster parents before I was born till I was 17. When they got him, he was only months old... They talked to him when He was almost 9. How is that inconsistant? I didn't say he was their only Foster child...

When my mother got pregnat with me they had just started fostering... 17 years later stopped.=18yrs.

He is almost 20 now and is doing great! Like I said...living a completely normal lifestyle....

LIKE I SAID I AM NOT TRYING TO CONVINCE YOU...ONLY LOOKING FOR AN EXPLINATION THAT I HAVE YET TO RECIEVE....?

it amazes me how ignorant some are...
The only answers I can get out of some is 1)there is no God. 2)why does God pick and choose 3)Science is still figuring out thing we don't inderstand yet. Well, that would be b/c science is not God. hmmm...well, either way like I said if not God...then who/what?

Answer 1

Albert Einstein" There are tow ways to live, as though nothing is a miracle, or as if everything is a miracle"

Only explanation is a Miracle. God. =)

Answer 2

The brain is an amazing organ. There's a procedure that's been done a number of times called a hemispherectomy. Patients can regain almost total functionality with only half a functioning brain. All the body has to do is learn to use what remains in a different way, that's all. Once the brain figures out how to move functionality into the more compact space, things work out fine.

Here's an excerpt from the wikipedia article:


"Most patients who have undergone this procedure will have neurons from the remaining hemisphere take over the tasks from the lost hemisphere by making new neural connections. One case, demonstrated by Smith & Sugar, 1975; A. Smith 1987, showed that one patient with this procedure had completed college, had attended graduate school and scored above average on intelligence tests. Studies have found no significant long-term effects on memory, personality, or humour after the procedure, and minimal changes in cognitive function overall."


Like i said, the brain is an incredible thing that we do not yet fully understand. It is much more plausible that it is able to consolidate its functions in other areas than to assume a magical man in the clouds did it for him.

By the way, keep your story consistent. It'll make it more believable. First you say he only had 1/4 of a brain then you claim he had no brain at all. Which one is it?

Answer 3

Did he physically have 3/4 of his brain removed?

If not, someone claimed that he had lost 3/4 of his brain's ability.

They were wrong. No miracle needed.


I'm confused about something though. If your parents were foster parents for 18 years of your life, and he was their first foster child he must be at least 18.

But later on you say "7 years later" Are you claiming that it took at least 11 years for him to be put up for adoption?

Or is your story inconsistent?


Edit:
O.K. What parts of the brain were in the 3/4 that were PHYSICALLY removed? What was the precise reason for this operation?

Answer 4

Well, questions about life and death have been asked since man was able to think them up.

The only thing I can suggest is to think about all the chidlren who were perfectly healthy one day and then the next day developed cancer, other disease, or was in an accident and then later died. Do you think the parents, relatives, friends of those children prayed? Why werent their prayers answered?

Why does "god" pick and choose?

I understand wanting to believe that worship, prayer, and reverence will make a difference but the truth is that the only higher powers are our brains, and the brains of those who are smarter than us.

The human body is capable of many things that we dont even know about. Just think about the billions of germs we encounter every day. Our body fends them off with an immune system.

There are scientific explanations of why things happen. However, if the scientific evidence has not yet been discovered----we dont know yet.

Answer 5

I worked in neurology for a few months with children and the brain is a strange organ, it has been proven that a boy who couldn't speak or perform even basic tasks had half his brain "disconnected" and then learned to speak, read, write, etc. The fact is the brain can make new connections and "rewire" itself especially if the person is still an infant.

There are lots of things that defy medical explanation, that does not mean we can attribute them to God, lots of people die inexplicably does that mean that God exists?

Answer 6

First of all just because you can't explain something doesn't automatically point the finger at God.

Secondly would the kid dying be proof that God doesn't exist and that prayers don't work? No.

It'll take more than a few antecdotal stories to convince me.

Also where is the child now? He should be 18. How's he doin?

Answer 7

Brains are still growing up to age 25, and very much so in infants. If there is a good time to lose a huge chunk of the brain and have it grow to re-wire as something that works, its when you're an infant.

The brain isn't real well understood at best anyway.

My return question would be: if prayer did it, why do so many others die even if people are praying for them? Does God just randomly choose who to save and who to kill? No corrolation has been found in studies of prayer on surgery recovery times.

Answer 8

Do you mean something like this?

"[...]the brains of young children are quite adaptable. The function of a damaged brain area in a young brain can be taken over by remaining brain tissue. There are incredible examples of such recovery in young children who have had large portions of their brains removed to control seizures."

"LOOKING FOR AN EXPLINATION THAT I HAVE YET TO RECIEVE...."

You're not likely to find one until you stop being willfully ignorant.

"I am a very well educated individual."

Open for discussion...

Answer 9

Easy, man. Youre making up details.

No person on earth could live with 1/4 of their brains. NO ONE. So, either youre making this up, or you are exaggerating the details. Doctors make mistakes...perhaps he had 1/4 of his brain removed, but certainly not 3/4. And, maybe the medical doctors made a mistake in his perceived recovery chances.

Either way, doesnt prove God exists... If it does, it only speaks volumes about God - apparently, he feels that the life of Baby Jesse is worth more than hundreds of thousands of children that his own Churches have abused...

Answer 10

This past November I broke my arm. I am self employed with no health insurance. I can't afford the doctor, and I can't afford to not work. I went and got prayed for, and I was totally healed the very next day

Yes! God does miracles, and yes, He is still in the miracle business.

Answer 11

This things are call unexplainable. No one can explain them thats why god is invented and brought into situations that can't be explained. God is for uneducated people who can not think for themselves. Every time they get confused with something they bring god into it. You tell me to explain how this can't be god you explain god to me give me one fact that you absolutely can prove to me about god. You people say that when bad things happen god has no control in our lives but the second a good thing happens it was because of god.