I don't really have any clear cut answers to this question, but I would like to say a few things. For starters, God did does not take our loved ones away prematurely; Satan does. We should not blame God for what Satan does, although I do understand that God is fully sovereign over His creation. The next thing that we should note is that death is a consequence of human actions. For Christians, it is better to die than it is to live.
"For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." Philippians 1:21
We NEED to die in order to get new bodies, so because of Adam's sin, death is necessary to fulfill God's divine plan. The last thing I want to say about this is that if God always listened to everyone's prayers about keeping people alive, no one would ever die. I'm sure that in the majority of cases of people that have terminal diseases, there is someone praying for them. God's plan is better than ours and sometimes that's tough to see at the time. There is always comfort though, everything will be fixed beyond the grave.
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God wants the best for us. Sometimes the people we love might be suffering on this earth. God hates to see us suffer so mabey he takes us. We cant do anyting when he takes them and crying wont help! Rejoice about the fact that they are in paradise now dont be selfish and cry your loved one whom he took likes it better in heaven!What can you do now? Be your best make the bes tout of life and just let go of that burden and pain try asking god to restore your happiness. You still have your family so eb strong for them even when it hurts. But teh most important thing to do is pray when you get taken away you will be in judgment so still be with god if you want to see your loved one again in heaven for if your bad you will not be excepted into heaven therefor you cant see your loved one
ReplyDeleteVery true; we should be rejoicing over our loved ones and should try our best to not become to entrenched in self-pity. Of course, that doesn't take away the pain and anguish of losing a loved one, but it does mean that our sadness shouldn't be predominately about ourselves. But still, it can be so, so hard...
ReplyDeleteWhat a load of horseshit.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I wrote this some 7 years ago... not sure how much I agree with it now. What exactly do you think is horseshit?
ReplyDeleteRejoicing at someone's death,especially if they died from a disease,or in pain,or as a result of someone else's idiocy.It took me 20 years to find me wife,but your God had to leave e
DeleteLet her die from a heart attack.I used to live Him,but He took someone from me that I'll never see again now.I don't want His heaven,or her and I in it.I want a real life,not some supernatural Fantasyland,with her.
Rejoicing at someone's death,especially if they died from a disease,or in pain,or as a result of someone else's idiocy.It took me 20 years to find me wife,but your God had to leave e
DeleteLet her die from a heart attack.I used to live Him,but He took someone from me that I'll never see again now.I don't want His heaven,or her and I in it.I want a real life,not some supernatural Fantasyland,with her.
Rejoicing over someone's death really depends on perspective... if you truly believe a loved one is in a much happier place, then there is an element of joy to death. If, however, you believe they are simply gone, then "rejoicing at someone's death" sounds like a cruel statement, indeed.
ReplyDeleteI'm terribly sorry to hear about your loss. There are never any words to say in the face of abject tragedy.
Is it that you don't want his heaven? Or is it that you don't believe there is a heaven? Surely, if you thought there was a paradise, where you and your wife could spend all eternity together, with God and everyone else, wouldn't that be the best thing imaginable? I think you don't want to believe it because it seems "too good to be true" and you don't want to take a sucker's bet -- I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds by saying that. Perhaps you're afraid of hoping in something that is so amazing (because let's face it, heaven is simply the best thing the human mind can conceive of) and being tragically and pathetically let down if it isn't real?
I can definitely empathize with that line of thinking... It is a horrible thing to hope in something like heaven if it isn't true. BUT, if it is true, then shouldn't all of our hope be there? After all, that's where we can be reunited with our loved ones... that's where every tear will be wiped away... that's where we will abide with our Lord forever.
Paul understand this sentiment really well in 1 corinthians 15:
"For if the dead are not raised, then not even has Christ been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men."
The greater the hope and the greater the object hoped for, the greater the disappointment if it's not true, right? I guess it all hinges on whether or not it's true.
I don't want it because He just stood by and let her die,nointervention,no healing,just a massive heart attack ,a death rattle ,after 4 attempts by ineffective doctors and paramedics to resuscitate her.They refused to try again,and gave some pisspoor excuse about if they continued and managed to bring her back she'd have been a vegetable.Why would!d I WANT to go to the realm of the God that refused to save her life?
ReplyDeleteI don't want it because He just stood by and let her die,nointervention,no healing,just a massive heart attack ,a death rattle ,after 4 attempts by ineffective doctors and paramedics to resuscitate her.They refused to try again,and gave some pisspoor excuse about if they continued and managed to bring her back she'd have been a vegetable.Why would!d I WANT to go to the realm of the God that refused to save her life?
ReplyDeleteHe took her from me like she was some piece of rental property.And I really object to the view that we are His property,in any sense.Its insulting.
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