Christians how do you explain this? when a person goes into cardiac arrest and they receive CPR?

Question

and life saving drugs and they come back to life,does that mean that we went against Gods will?

Answer 1

Thats the great thing about religion. If a loved one dies then it was gods will and if they make it then it was gods will. God has a plan for everyone! If life is treating you like crap blame it on god. If everything is working out ok god has blessed you. Isn't it great to have someone to blame/credit for everything?

SAVE ME Jeebus! -Homer Simpson

Answer 2

Cardiac arrest is what happens when a person dies. The heart does not beat and breathing ceases, which starves the body of oxygen. Sometimes a person can be revived during the first several minutes after cardiac arrest. However, the more time that passes, the less likely it is that the person can be revived and, if revived, the more likely it is that brain damage will have occurred. Brain damage is likely if cardiac arrest lasts for more than 5 minutes, and death is likely if cardiac arrest lasts for more than 10 minutes. Fewer than 5% of people who are not already hospitalized when they have a cardiac arrest survive to be discharged from the hospital, and many survivors have brain damage. A person in cardiac arrest lies motionless without breathing and does not respond to questions or to stimulation, such as shaking. A rescuer who encounters someone who fits this description first determines whether the person is conscious by loudly asking, "Are you OK?" If there is no response, the rescuer turns the person face up and uses the "look, listen, and feel" approach to determine whether breathing has stopped First aid for cardiac arrest should proceed as quickly as possible. An automated external defibrillator (AED—a device that can start the heart beating again) should be used immediately if available. The next step is to call for emergency medical assistance. Next, if the person has not resumed breathing, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) should be started. CPR combines artificial respiration (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, rescue breathing), which supplies oxygen to the lungs, with chest compressions, which circulate oxygen to the brain and other vital organs by forcing blood out of the heart.

Answer 3

many years ago, i was attending a medical training conference where there were docs of all specialities and they had the bells and whistles of the state of the art medicine available.

a man, early 50s i think, fell from his chair with a heart attack. From onset to definative care, less the 30 seconds, with drugs being pushed by medical doctors and honest to goodness EMS on the scene (also attending).

he died.

what makes one survive and another die? the bible says it is appointed to men, once to die and then the judgment. Medicine saves lives that would otherwise result in death. i myself take drugs to get through the day so i can do it all over tomorrow.

i have wrestled with the spiritual and moral issues of saving the lives of these guys who just killed someone and then tried to take their own life but survived long enough to come into my OR for treatment. i have to do my best just like the doc does his best to save their lives so that they might go to trial and spend 20 years on death row.

while that is not exactly the cpr question you are asking, having been in combat, i am assured that when your lotto is chosen, you will die, no matter what medical care is available.

in what is called the will of god, you have 2 types. permissive and the perfect. the perfect is that Jesus would save those who accept him as savior, the permissive is making and giving men and women the choice to accept or reject him. the perfect will of God in this matter is unknown to me, the permissive will of God is to try and save those who are strickened.

i personally am reluctant to do CPR not over disease issues, nothing I could get could make me any worse, and not over a religious deal.

but if that person were not a christian, it is important to give them a second chance at life, for Christ has given us that second chance.

while the debate over life after death exists, those who have peaked at the otherside of the vail, and see hell, know it to be real and i would not want my worse enemy there.

those are my thoughts, rambling perhaps

Answer 4

"back to life"

Interesting term. But, it also has TWO definitions made by medicine (and not God).

One is called "clinical death" and that's when the heart and breathing stop. It's the one where CPR can bring the person "back to life".

The other is called "biological death" and that's when cellular death has occured. It's the one where there's no return to the PHYSICAL life. I also believe that THIS is the definition of death to be considered relative to the soul. As such, nobody EVER comes "back to life". So, obviously no conflict with God's will.

Just my thoughts.


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Answer 5

No, I don't feel this is going against the will of God- if God wants them to live, the drugs and CPR will bring them back- God does use modern technology. However, if it is time for that person to die, no modern technology can bring them back.

Answer 6

Wish you could talk to my husband about this. He was a paramedic for almost 20 years, so has some personal experience. Unfortunately, I can't persuade him to come on R&S. (As a Christian, he says the unChristlike responses of some of our fellow believers would give him an ulcer.)

His short answer--no, do all you can for a person, but when their time is up, it's up no matter what.

Answer 7

Let's keep things in perspective. God has enabled mankind to exercise dominion over creation as was His plan and command. So now we have figured out ways to preserve human life. That is good and we should do this.

Exercising life saving efforts are not going against God's will. If it is God's will that the person in crisis has come to his/her appointed time to die then nothing man can do will prevent that from happening.

Answer 8

Heck no. If God really wanted those people with him that's where they'd be. Maybe its like seeing if a pork chop is done or somethin'. Maybe God is stickin' a big ol' fork in 'em and pullin' them out, then stickin' them back in 'till they're good and done. I kind of think God should do a little more checking. Have you seen some of these geezers running around? Now those guys are DONE.

Answer 9

If you don't want CPR, have it tattooed to your chest.
Modern medicine and all its tools are the gifts of God to help us prolong our lives if we choose to. Even the ancient art of herbal medicine is intended to heal and prolong our health and well being. The only exit stratergy is not to take advantage of any of it and when the time comes, just don't fight it. But in the end, we can't say "why me God".

Answer 10

I agree with Anthony, if it's your time then it's your time, but being brought back by artificial means isn't going against God's will. I mean if you want an extreme example - if it didn't matter what you did then you should never take any drugs and sit around all day and eat ice cream and fried foods...then if you die is it God's will, or that you just didn't take care of yourself. God gives you free will, how you use it...and take care of yourself, including healthcare, is up to you.

Answer 11

According to Nashgirl;" 'God' helped man create those meds." Oh really??? I think I neeed seat belts for my chair, so I don't fall off laughing. These are the people who pray when someone is sick, and are unable to connect the dots. Their almighty "god" (who is supposedly in control of everything) is the one who MADE the person sick. Then they pray for that same "god" to make the person well. It has to be a brain defect. There is no other explanation.