This is an excerpt from a site about a husband with a heart problem and a prayer from a loving wife. The story is documented and shows the power of prayer when medical science can not help further.
Since you so badly wanted someone to read this…
Big deal. Ten billion times a day the religious ask god for ridiculous things. Once in a while, the ridiculous thing happens. It’s not a coincidence, it’s statistical certainty.
What about the other 9,999,999,999 prayers that go unanswered? Well then, you should just remember that if your prayers aren’t answered, you were praying the wrong way. You should’ve been asking for understanding and strength, not an easy solution.
Doesn’t this whole thing reek of testing god, something the bible tells you not to do (let us know when you get there, Stumps)? Why doesn’t that piss you off rather than reassure you?
Asking God for someone’s life is not testing Him. That woman’s faith and prayers were responsible for God acting and saving her husband’s life. As I said, the condition of her husband’s heart condition are recorded and the doctors are puzzled about his recovery.
To test God would be doing so in a facetious manner. Daring Him to perform a miracle for a selfish motive.
When my wife was about 10 years old, she and her friend were sharing a bike ride on the street near their homes at that time. A pickup truck lost control and hit an electric pole which tore loose a high voltage line. Being curious children they approached the crash site to view the accident. My wife got too close to the wreck and the electric line swung into her chest. As a reaction to the wire hitting her chest, her arms closed on it.
The muscles in her body spasmed which clasped the wire next to her until the motor response released when her arms relaxed. A person watching this event found a board behind his house and pushed the wire out of the way. Her body was pulled safely away with her clothes and flesh still smoldering from being electricuted. Her mother hearing the commotion outside went to see what was going on.
To her horror she seen a policeman leaning over her who had just got to the scene. He had already called for an ambulance and noticed she was not breathing. The mother of the other girl who lived across the street went my wife’s mother to comfort her. They being Christian began to pray in the middle of the street.
A few moments later, the ambulance arrived. The attendants announced her heart had stopped and was not breathing. What was related to me is the officer said she had been that way for about 5 minutes. For all intent and purposes my wife was clinically dead at that point. My mother-in-law and the other lady were kneeling, sobbing and praying when one of the attendants said my wife started breathing and moving.
The scars still cover the upper most part of her body as a reminder of that tragedy. The equipment and techniques of ambulance drivers of that time weren’t as up to date as we have today, so I doubt they had the wherewithal to affect a life saving move to help that long after the wire had let her go.
I view this as a miracle. Especially at the point of where the wire hit over the heart. What others may think is up to them. Now, if you were to ask, “Why did God see fit to save this one little girl?” I couldn’t say. Blessings come in many forms. Why do some people die when others do not…I still couldn’t say. In my estimation we should thank God for all things. I thank God for bringing my wife to me.
‘Make it snow on christmas’ isn’t childish and testing god?
Would you believe a story about a couple that, for all intents and purposes, is identical to this one but ‘god’ decided not to save the husband? What would you say about their prayers?
Asking god to save her husband is not selfish?
One of my best friends has a father with a horrible, degenerate, aggressive, incurable cancer.
He said this long after his health started to deteriorate, after he went from being a roofer and well-renowned local Racquetballer to barely being able to shuffle across a room. And after being a good christian his whole life and raising a christian family.
I can not answer why God would heal some and not others. If you want me to guess, then the best I could offer is the people he saved were for a purpose. In John 11 of the Bible, Jesus raised Lazarus after 4 days of being physically dead. As for a specific reason why Jesus had done other than showing He would do the same for his family as well as anyone, I’m not sure.
Our reaoning could not be expected to meet God’s. For an entity who is believed by many Christians to have created the universe, would not be an impossible task for God. It’s beyond my comprehension God’s abilities…that is why I let my faith carry me when I can’t explain otherwise.
Here’s a better answer: Because some people get spontaneously better and some people don’t.
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say that someone’s faith is what saved another person, but at the same time say it’s still god’s choice whether that person lives or dies. The latter negates the former…or at least it should, but some people are illogical.
As I said, it’s a guess. Other people may guess something else.
You can’t get out of it that easy.
You’re really going to sit there and tell me this woman’s prayer saved her husband, but at the same time say that god could have just as easily snuffed him out and you would sit there and say ‘it was his time’ or ‘it’s part of god’s plan’ or some other nonsense?
I doubt I can say anything that would satisfy you. It would be as easy for you to say why he didn’t die as the doctors. They don’t know either.
If doctors think they don’t have enough evidence to suggest a conclusion, that means there’s enough evidence to suggest God dun it.
The question is can you satisfy yourself with that logical misstep?
edit: Here, I created this handy visual to keep us all on the same step. There are four conclusions a christian can come to. Worthy and unworthy are either untrue or taboo.
The interesting question would be is if you don’t think a miracle from God saved his life, then what fixed his heart that several heart surgeons can’t explain with no physical intervention?
A one in a billion self-correcting problem. Statistics.
It kind of defeats a logical explanation doesn’t it?
What, statistics?
How about a very simple but also honest answer that requires no leaping of faith or logical missteping of any kind… WE DONT KNOW!
The exact mechanism, no. But we know the body is incredibly complex, and to insist that only divine intervention could have fixed this guy is just ignorance. Every once in a while, our wonderful machine will do something that our best science can’t (yet?) predict.
Maybe if the dude went in for more tests instead of saying it was god’s work we’d be able to understand what happened. By the looks of the picture, if it were me I guess I’d be afraid the doctor would tell me to stop eating chili cheese corndogs too, though.
I’m kidding. I have no idea what he did after he got better. And by better, I mean on the low end of normal. What, god couldn’t give him an Olympic ticker?