Has anyone out there experienced a time when they should've died but didn't?

Question

Why wouldn't that constitute proof of a higher power at work?

Lab Grrl: how do you know that person didn't desperately need 100 dollars at that moment and you were the instrument to provide the miracle they needed?

MY QUESTION SHOULD HAVE BEEN "WHAT KIND OF PROOF DO YOU NEED? HE SAVED YOU FROM DEATH!!!!!!!"

Answer 1

Yes. doctors told me that I was six months away from dieing from alcohol addiction and that it would take years of rehabilitation after I quit to get my body back to normal.

Well, to make a very long story very short, I was miraculously healed and delivered from my addiction to alcohol in an instant by Jesus Christ. No rehab, no withdrawals, nothing but Jesus! That was a little over five years ago and I still haven't even had any desire to drink nor have I drank. Glory be the Lamb who was slain!

Answer 2

Because people believe in luck, chance, and coincidence. I should have died several times, I know enough about chemistry and physics to understand that I shouldn't be here and that I was kept here on purpose by a higher power. But then again I look on the Krebs cycle and am amazed at the order that God has put into this universe. It's proof to me because I already believe, that's the way God works. He never absolutely proves anything otherwise we would not have a choice.

Answer 3

Yes, three occasions. 1) When my appendix ruptured. 2) When I was first diagnosed with PKD (polycystic kidney disease). Long story. 3) When I went into renal failure and couldn't get either of the fistulas to work. God kept me going for six years until I was able to receive a kidney transplant.

With this said, I don't consider these times when I should have died because it wasn't my appointed time to die. I only repeated what doctors told my family members.

There is only one instance that I can recall where God extended a persons life. II Kings 20:1-6 God extended King Hezekiah's life 15 years.

Two have never died: Elijah (II Kings 2:1-15 was taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire) and Enoch (Gen. 5:24 God took him to heaven)

Heb. 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.

Answer 4

I almost died when I was born. That's the closest I've ever got, and I don't really remember it.

While I do believe in a higher power, I don't think this constitutes proof. There are plenty of babies who *did* die from the exact same thing.

Answer 5

Many times, especially when driving. But the time that is most obvious is when my friend was driving & didn't slow down enough for an interstate exit. Then he panicked & tromped on the brakes. The car rolled over a couple times. Boy was I sure that was the end. But the Lord saw fit to spare us both & has taught me much in the years that followed.

Answer 6

Define "should've died."

Seriously. Every moment most of us live is a time when we should've died.

Modern Science, killing off apex predators and the random movements of bodies in space are all responsible for everyone of us being alive DESPITE the odds.

But let me ask you this:
If I select 100,000 people from the phonebook and give $100 to one of them at random, is that a miracle?
When there is a lottery someone almost always wins the lottery...that's not a miracle.

Answer 7

Ummmmmm well lets see for a minute.

In the old days (really old) if i got tuberculosis i was a dead man. TODAY however if i get it my local hospital clears it up. So should i believe in god for that. Nope i believe in my doctor more.

Plenty of people have "Miracles" happen and dont die but more dont have "gods will" imposed and do die.

Sooooo No i dont think it constitues proof of a higher power.

Answer 8

Three months ago my 17 year old grandson, hit a tree with his car, totalled his car and put his head through the front windshield and walked away with a scratch on his lower knee.

He was binge drinking and he did not know that he had a liver that could not handle alcohol. He passed out and hit the tree. I pray for my grandson every day that he lives.

Answer 9

Yes. Why would that indicate proof of a higher power, honey? Sometimes we just get lucky. I didn't die because he slowed down enough before he hit me, then the doctors did a wonderful job. I say "humans did it", not "gawd diddit".

Surviving isn't proof of a god, its only proof that you survived.

Answer 10

This would not be evidence of a god. Instead it would be a selection effect. People who should have died but didn't, still survive to log in here. People who should have lived but died never come on here. Now if someone who should have lived but died were to come on here then that might be evidence for a god, but that never happens.