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. Maybe God will use what I post (I am a Christian and this blog will have a most decidedly Christian bent to it) to good effect in the lives of my readers.
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Thanks.
Carlos
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. Maybe God will use what I post (I am a Christian and this blog will have a most decidedly Christian bent to it) to good effect in the lives of my readers. I may turn some of my posts into a book. I may cease blogging here altogether. Who knows. But for now..I am content to post away in this, my own little corner of the world.
Rather than reading through my now lengthy list of posts you may wish to read what I consider to be my very best posts or you can just read the posts that deal with a single subject category that might interest you.
Please know that I am open to any input on any topic I write about. If you have something to say about anything you see written here please....feel free to speak up in the form of leaving a comment or sending me a PM (private message).
And if you are in San Diego and wish to meet the one and only Carlos (that's me
)...drop me a private message. I always enjoy meeting one of my readers!Thanks.
Carlos
PS. If you want to follow my blog such that you will get an email when I write new posts you can subscribe to my blog.
Mother is convicted in death of daughter she tried to heal by faith.
Posted 06-09-2009 at 01:23 PM by carlos123
A mother who did not seek medical attention for her daughter but who instead prayed for healing, was convicted of second degree reckless homicide punishable by up to 25 years in jail.
Her case is both sad and also enlightening with respect to how our society deals with persons who have sincere faith in God for something. In this case a healing.
Reading a letter she wrote to local newspapers dealing with the case I see little indication of ungodly negligence, foolishness (at least in the eyes of God), and anything else that would warrant a potential sentence of up to 25 years in jail.
Mind you...that's just my opinion off the top of my head. I haven't studied this case thoroughly nor have I sought the Lord on this type of situation myself sufficiently to arrive at much of any conviction as to how much to rely on modern medicine vs on God for a healing.
One very valid point the mother made is that in her case the faith healing did not work and her daughter died such that she was charged and convicted. Yet in the case of hospitals throughout the land, in regard to the many cases of medical attempts to save a life failing, no one is charged and convicted just because a doctor is not able, assuming all reasonable efforts are made, to save a life.
That people were healed in biblical times is a given. That doctors back then were no doctors at all and as likely to cause one's death as not...is a given.
But how the biblical example might apply to today's times when the science of medicine has made such great strides (amid some that are not so great as well) is something that I do not as yet have an answer for.
I know, personally, that death is not a big deal. That our lives are to be more than just doing anything and everything to avoid death.
Death will come to us all. And there is nothing anyone of us can do to avoid that inevitable end to all our lives.
The important thing in life is to live a life worthy of being chosen by God for eternal life. Of being given over completely to pleasing Him.
Whether that results in death or continued life for a little longer is of no consequence.
If we are living for Him and have received forgiveness of our sins through Jesus Christ then what awaits us in the next life is to be more greatly desired than anything this life has to offer.
To die is gain Paul said. How true that is.
Still...we should not act in a way that precipitates our death in a way that God would not be pleased with.
If we are a Christian, our life is His, and He would have us live our lives in health and wellness to the degree that it is necessary to accomplish His will through our lives.
If that means going to a doctor then He would have us do that I think.
Perhaps the two, relying on God by faith for a healing, and seeing a doctor are not contradictory. Perhaps we can trust God to heal us through any and every means available to us in our day and age.
Not sure. It's something I will have to look into at some point in time.
I've always gone to doctors, when I can afford them and do not see that as not walking in faith necessarily any more than I see using a car, electricity, or other things as indicative of a lack of faith in God to provide me with transportation, electricity, and the other things I make use of.
Lot's of issues brought up by this case. Lots of unanswered questions which I will have to add to my list of questions that I hope to someday have answers to.
If you want to read more on this case just do a search at Google for "Leilani Neumann".
Here's a link to a news story that has her letter about the case in it Leilani Neumann: Prayer death 'trial was completely unfair' | greenbaypressgazette.com | Green Bay Press-Gazette
I highly recommend you read her letter.
And here are additional links to more on this case...
Parents Prayed While Daughter Died « SHADMIA’S WORLD (gives more details than many)
RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS: Leilani Neumann found guilty (insight from a more legal framework)
Carlos
Her case is both sad and also enlightening with respect to how our society deals with persons who have sincere faith in God for something. In this case a healing.
Reading a letter she wrote to local newspapers dealing with the case I see little indication of ungodly negligence, foolishness (at least in the eyes of God), and anything else that would warrant a potential sentence of up to 25 years in jail.
Mind you...that's just my opinion off the top of my head. I haven't studied this case thoroughly nor have I sought the Lord on this type of situation myself sufficiently to arrive at much of any conviction as to how much to rely on modern medicine vs on God for a healing.
One very valid point the mother made is that in her case the faith healing did not work and her daughter died such that she was charged and convicted. Yet in the case of hospitals throughout the land, in regard to the many cases of medical attempts to save a life failing, no one is charged and convicted just because a doctor is not able, assuming all reasonable efforts are made, to save a life.
That people were healed in biblical times is a given. That doctors back then were no doctors at all and as likely to cause one's death as not...is a given.
But how the biblical example might apply to today's times when the science of medicine has made such great strides (amid some that are not so great as well) is something that I do not as yet have an answer for.
I know, personally, that death is not a big deal. That our lives are to be more than just doing anything and everything to avoid death.
Death will come to us all. And there is nothing anyone of us can do to avoid that inevitable end to all our lives.
The important thing in life is to live a life worthy of being chosen by God for eternal life. Of being given over completely to pleasing Him.
Whether that results in death or continued life for a little longer is of no consequence.
If we are living for Him and have received forgiveness of our sins through Jesus Christ then what awaits us in the next life is to be more greatly desired than anything this life has to offer.
To die is gain Paul said. How true that is.
Still...we should not act in a way that precipitates our death in a way that God would not be pleased with.
If we are a Christian, our life is His, and He would have us live our lives in health and wellness to the degree that it is necessary to accomplish His will through our lives.
If that means going to a doctor then He would have us do that I think.
Perhaps the two, relying on God by faith for a healing, and seeing a doctor are not contradictory. Perhaps we can trust God to heal us through any and every means available to us in our day and age.
Not sure. It's something I will have to look into at some point in time.
I've always gone to doctors, when I can afford them and do not see that as not walking in faith necessarily any more than I see using a car, electricity, or other things as indicative of a lack of faith in God to provide me with transportation, electricity, and the other things I make use of.
Lot's of issues brought up by this case. Lots of unanswered questions which I will have to add to my list of questions that I hope to someday have answers to.
If you want to read more on this case just do a search at Google for "Leilani Neumann".
Here's a link to a news story that has her letter about the case in it Leilani Neumann: Prayer death 'trial was completely unfair' | greenbaypressgazette.com | Green Bay Press-Gazette
I highly recommend you read her letter.
And here are additional links to more on this case...
Parents Prayed While Daughter Died « SHADMIA’S WORLD (gives more details than many)
RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS: Leilani Neumann found guilty (insight from a more legal framework)
Carlos
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