It mentioned he would need some therapy for the nerves in his hands...so he's no vegetable.

My thoughts exactly. :(

Someone voted this down too. With??

Alice Bailey: "The Reappearance of the Christ" 1956

Um, who made fun? I asked thought provoking questions. Why are people offended by questions? I don't get it.

god is going to "get" you for not capitalizing He and Pope! *giggle*

When my second son was born he had a heart racing issue (along with other problems) and one day in the nicu when his hearted started racing the doc came over with a bag of ice and put it on his face to try and induce the drowning affect to slow his heart down. It was a terrible thing to witness..and it didn't work. They had to inject him with something that made him lethargic and gray. :( but you're right about the cold / heart rate affect.

Wrong... I was asking (hypothetically), if there is a God, does he allow these things to happen. I don't think the faithful ask these questions because it's always the same answer. Have faith, God's will.... reminds me a lot of "do not notice, do not question, do not judge". I think Elmo said that once.

Wow Robbie, that was rude. I never said God was evil. I'd have to say God IS to even go there. I'm a puppet for wanting things to be logical rather than mystical? Fyi, I always disliked fairy tales for the same reason. They don't add up. And I didn't vote that down, but I should just for the name calling.

And some people's kids' time is just up? Cuz they no longer have a purpose? I had a childhood friend get murdered and another die in a house fire. Am I to call that God's will? Did he need them in heaven or something? Why send them down in the first place? To cause life long pain to others?

Who are you directing that at?

He did? No one mentioned seeing him. And either we have free will or we don't. Intervening would disrupt that.

People making fun of my faith is getting to be boring - read your insulting posts and think about what is coming through from you - ignorance.
The evolutionary nod in science books is at the beginning or the end - as agreed to get grants and funding. In reality, scientists have been looking to find out who wrote the original information in each person's DNA. The information can only be created by intelligence - the intelligent being that created the code is God. I recommend a video for you to watch: Evolution's Achilles' Heels; 15 Ph.D. Scientists explain evolution's fatal flaws - in areas claimed to be it's greatest strengths. You will come away with a realistic view. I reconciled Rand to my Faith a long time ago. Proven Science: Everything is digital. We are living in a reality inside another reality. Time is slowing down. The universe is finite. What those things mean is awesome when you dig into the research. Some European scientists are well on the road to proving we are living in an amazing hologram of the likes we could not create ourselves. Studying the Bible is very interesting work - especially when you are studying the same science. A fun fact: Man never needed to believe the world was flat - the Bible tells us it is round. Mankind has always had a lot of catching up to do to know the science. I love how scientists do admit they are wrong when they discover it.
You have free will. There would be no point to being alive without it. God crated time and can see everything - being outside time. He knew what every choice we would make would be. He is God, our Creator, and He decided where He would intervene and not intervene - based on our choices. Global warming is a scam, but it could not be an extinction event unless God chose to let it happen. He keeps all things in balance. When there have been no temperature change for over a decade - well - hmmmm - oh, He has a sense of humor (He created that in us too.)
I am not alone in believing that when we were cast out of perfection, we lost the ability to directly know the other dimensions. The Bible talks about the 4 knowable dimensions."Ephesians 3:18 (KJV)
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;"
Breadth in it's oldest meaning: scope, range, span . . . as in time.
People like me who are reconciling God and the Science He Created - ask you to read the Bible with an open mind - take it literally - it is for our understanding and learning. And reconcile it to science. You just might be surprised to finally start looking for the intelligence that created the DNA code - and millions of other Created phenomena.

Robbie, ever heard of sarcasm?

Both of my children were born in that hospital.

Well we do. And parents and friends and pets. One does not escape reality.

Atheists do not recognise a god. Therefore no good or evil is attributed to a "being " certainly value judgements can be made about people and concepts. The ones guilty of personification are the religious.

I am thrilled to hear about this positive occurance in this tradgety....but nowhere in the story do we hear tht the kid is both alive and has his faculties. Quite frankly it is no miracle if the kid is a vegitable the rest of his life.

Anyone who is a parent will especially relate to this. Rather than a miracle, however, it falls into the same category as "Everyone who has ever eaten cabbage has died, so stay away from cabbage." Or, "My son was saved from death when I prayed for him at St. Jude Hospital, so if anything happens to those you love, make sure to send them there." I also don't want to start a religious debate. If religion helps or comforts you, it's OK with me, so long as you don't use it as an impediment to me.