If I undergo surgery, would it be ethical to make sure no Christian doctors or nurses are involved?

Question

You know, because of the rapture.

Answer 1

Are you afraid that you are not going to be raptured? Maybe you should make sure that you have accepted Jesus Christ as your savior before you go into surgery, then you wont have to worry about doctors or nurses being raptured.

Answer 2

Now, lets think about this for a minute. The rapture , if I understand it, is when all the righteous are caught up to heaven to join Christ when he returns to the earth in Glory to rule over peace for 1000 years. Also at this time the wicked are to be destroyed.

Now if you are on the operating table when the "Christian" doctors are chaught up, I would believe that if you were righteous you would be caught up also (and this would prove that the "christians" are right). However, if the "Christian" doctor's are are caught up and you are still there, then it still proves them right and you really have serious problems. And, not only the operation.

If the rapture dosen't happen you have lost a lot of sleep for nothing.

If you are going to have an operation, Good Luck, and God be with you.

Answer 3

That's carrying it a bit too far.

Many doctors and nurses are Christians, but if it is really important to you, go ahead and make the request.
They might have a hard time scheduling it so that no Christian comes near you, though.


Man, you must really hate us!

Do you check with cashiers, etc. when you go to the store so that you don't have to be waited on by a Christian? Do you ask for a waiter/waitress that is not a Christian? Do you check with the broadcasting systems to make sure no one who works there is a Christian to make sure you don't watch that station?


I guess you'd never get on airplane if the pilot was a Christian.

80% of the people in the world are Christians. I guess you're limited in your choice of companions.


If I needed surgery, I could care less what religion my surgeon was. I'd want the best.

Answer 4

If those doctors and nurses are real Christians, they'll pray for you and there's a good chance God will cure you and there will be no need for surgery.
Any good Christian doctor should pray for at least 10 days before performing an emergency surgery.

Answer 5

Are you "Squirrel Bad Squirrel" returning? If so, welcome back!
As for your question: Having spent my career in the medical profession, I do not question the ethics of your desire to avoid Christian caretakers. I just doubt sincerely that you could discover a hospital in the United States (even a Jewish facility) where the majority of the employees in all departments and disciplines, including the physicians themselves, are not Christians! In my experience nearly all of my co-workers have been "devout" Christians. I worked as a Cardiac Monitor Technician for awhile, and many of my associates were zealously religious.

Answer 6

I guess your thinking that they may dissapear all of a sudden? I would express your concerns with your doctor if youo feel that strongly about it. But I wouldn't worry as much either about that since if the rapture does happen and you are on the operating table you will have more to worry about that the operation going bad. It would prove the existence of Jesus and His promise and if you are still here then you might have missed the boat.

Answer 7

Well? Aren't you going up in the rapture also? If you died on the operating table, you might get caught up in the crowd.

Me, as a Christian, I would feel much safer with a Christian surgeon.

Answer 8

Only fundamentalist groups believe in the rapture - you should probably get a religious profile before undergoing surgery - cover all your bases.

Answer 9

It would be a good idea, hopefully you would get an Asian.

Asians=WTFPWN!

>.< But personally if it was me I would care more about the skill of the guy cutting me open than whether he spends his Sunday mornings sleeping off a hangover or sitting in a large building.....

Also better hope a kid you know doesnt need brain surgery,top pediatric neurosurgeon in the world is Benjamin Carson, a devout christian who has writen two christian belive in yourself books.

^^WTF why did I get 2 thumbs down?!?!

Answer 10

It really wouldn't make much difference one way or the other; the rapture happens at the end of this world, so you would either die from the world as we know it ending or be saved by Jesus
The Bible says that the rapture happens at the end of the world.

“Another parable put He forth unto them, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, ‘Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares?’ He said unto them, ‘An enemy hath done this.’ The servants said unto him, ‘Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.’’” (Matthew 13:24 – 29 KJV)

Now that is an interesting story, and it can be a little confusing; fortunately, because the disciples found this story a little confusing they also and asked Jesus to explain if further. Because our God is not a God of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33), Jesus explained what this parable meant.

“Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, ‘Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.’ He answered and said unto them, ‘He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.’” (Matthew 13:36 – 42 KJV)

A closer study of this parable would seem to completely disprove the theory of a secret rapture of the church. Let’s take a look at what Jesus had to say about the time of the end through this parable. There are two groups on the earth represented by the wheat (the good or the church) and the tares (the evil). The workers of the field (probably representing angels) are troubled by the tares that the evil one (the devil) has planted. They ask the farmer (Jesus) if they should gather the weeds now and purify the field (the world). The farmer (Jesus) said that it should not happen that way because some of the wheat may come up with the tares. He then declares, “Let both grow together until the harvest (the end of the world): and in the time of harvest (the end of the world) I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.” I find it hard to be a proponent of a secret rapture for the church when Jesus said that both the good and the evil will grow together until the harvest (the end of the world). How can the church be raptured, leaving the evil on the earth, when Jesus said they will be together until the very end?

There is another issue raised by this parable. Many well intentioned Christians use the story in Matthew 24:40 & 41 and Luke 17:34 – 36 as key proof of a secret rapture for the church, but if we examine this story about the end times with the earlier story Jesus told about the end times in Matthew 13, we get a completely different picture from what most Christians interpret this story to mean. Let’s look at what Jesus said in these verses.

“Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.” (Matthew 24:40 – 42 KJV)

“I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” (Luke 17:34 – 36 KJV)

Now I do not think that I am wrong in thinking that most Christians interpret these stories to mean that the man taken from the field, the woman that is taken while grinding, and the man taken in his sleep are the ones that belong to the group that is the church and are ruptured. This does not seem to be a plausible explanation however. Jesus gives an order for things to happen back in Matthew 13. “Gather ye together first the tares (the evil), and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat (the good or the church) into my barn.” Jesus clearly says that the evil will be gathered first. If we take this understanding and apply it to Matthew 24 and Luke 17, we get a very different understanding. The ones that are taken are not in the group we want to be in. The ones who are taken are the tares (the evil) that are being gathered to be burned, but the ones that are left are the wheat (the good) that are saved.

There is another metaphor that many well intentioned Christians use to support a secret rapture for the church; I feel that this too is an invalid interpretation of a story.

“But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.” (Matthew 24:43 & 44 KJV)

“And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.” (Luke 12:39 & 40 KJV)

“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.” (1 Thessalonians 5:2 KJV)

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” (2 Peter 3:10 KJV)

“Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.” (Revelation 16:15 KJV)

Here again, most Christians would attempt to say that this metaphor of a thief in the night is depicting a secret rapture for the church. I believe that most Christians have misinterpreted this too. First, Jesus explains what this metaphor means. He says that the meaning is not that the second coming is a secret but we do not know when it will occur. If we knew what day the Lord was to come, we would get ready the day before it, but since we do not know the day or the hour (Matthew 24:36), we must be ever ready! Just examine what Peter had to say of this metaphor in 2 Peter 3:10; he says that when the Lord comes as a thief,” the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therine shall be burned up.” Now I am not sure how all that could be kept a secret from anyone or how people would be able to live on the earth when it has passed away, burned up, and all the elements in it have melted.