This was hard for me to read.

I am a believer and also believe in healing. My own daughter was healed.....HOWEVER

God gave us brains and common sense for a reason. He also gave doctors the ability to learn about how our bodies work for a reason.

This is child neglect...bottom line.

I'm a Christian, although I'm just recently beginning to really read through the Bible and study it - but basically I think those people, obviously, took it to an extreme. I think that if you pray and have faith, things will happen, but it's not like magic. I think God did answer the prayer in a way because the people have resources. God can't go around healing every person that is ill that prays for it because if He did then it would be like a normal occurrence and no kind of miracle or something special. Instead we were given our brains and ability to think and make decisions on our own. Those people had/were given the resources to treat their child (the doctor) so, at least in my opinion, God was answering their prayer in a way, but the people just didn't realize what they should have been doing, I guess; the story is very upsetting and I feel awful for the poor kids ):

Sorry for rambling; hope this made sense :')

I pray the guys pee pee falls off. He shouldnt be having any more kids.

My brother joined a very similar church when he married. Tragedy has already visited their young family, but they say it is God's will. I am a born-again Christian and my pastor and my parents and I all believe that their church is a CULT. But we remain close to them, because we love them and we feel it is the best way to keep an eye on the health of my nieces and nephew. Avoiding medical care is not biblical. The verses they quote to me to justify their decision are 1) when Jesus told the man to stretch out his hand and it was no longer withered. And 2) there is a verse that says to "trust no man." But the author of the Gospel, Luke, was a doctor. And Paul told Timothy to take a little wine to heal his stomach. It is disheartening to hear that another little one has died at the hands of the very people God entrusted to take care of him. So sad. Makes me cry for my baby niece, who would be 8, if she had survived what should have been a normal birth. Thanks for listening.

I do not belive in A God I belive in good and bad and trying to do your best to help others no matter how, I would die for my kids ( now teenagers) without blinking an eyelid as I do belive that we are more than the bodies we experience life in. Hurting children is the biggest crime on the planet as they cannot protect themselves and we as adults should be there for them even if they are not our own, just look at the little girl in india who was sexually abused at the age of 5 we should be ashamed of ourselves as a race for letting this happen.

Christianity is not the issue here. These people are mentally ill. I can't believe they were allowed to keep their kid after they let the other one die. They should be in a mental health facility, not jail or out on the streets either. They must be delusional to believe that their child doesn't need to get medical attention especially after one kid died already. I'm a Christian btw. There are a lot of people that make other Christians look bad because they are psychopaths.

Faith isn't exclusively about prayer, that isn't and never has been how God works/ed. You have to have faith, but you have to know when to heed the voice moving you towards the solution. There is an applicable story I heard once, I looked for it online and snagged it off some random website, but this about sums it up:


While out to sea, a large boat became shipwrecked and there was only a single survivor. This man prayed and asked God to save his life. Soon thereafter, another boat came by and offered the man some help.

"No thanks," he said. "I'm waiting for God to save me."

The men on the boat shrugged their shoulders and continued. As the man became more deeply concerned, another boat came by. Again, the people aboard offered this man some help, and again he politely decline. "I'm waiting for God to save me," he said again.

After some time, the man began to lose his faith, and soon after that he died. Upon reaching Heaven, he had a chance to speak with God briefly.

"Why did you let me die? Why didn't you answer my prayers?"

"Dummy, I sent you two boats!"

God is always watching out for the best interests of our spiritual evolution, even when we are too narrowly focused to see all the other opportunities it presents us. Sometimes, all that is needed is a change of perspective.

I am a Christian, so I can offer my input. I feel these parents were very confused about how faith and asking for God's help works.

Ever heard the little kids' tale about the man who was shipwrecked and floating in the ocean? Every day he prayed to God to be saved. Soon a fishing boat sailed by. He turned down their help, saying, "God will save me." The next day a cruise ship sailed by. He passed on their assistance, saying "God will save me." The next day an aircraft carrier went by, and he said the same thing, "God will save me". The next day he drowned. When he met God, he asked him why he didn't help. God said to him, "I sent a sailboat, a cruise liner, and even a whole aircraft carrier to save you! Why did you turn them down?"

^^I think that's what's happening, here.

I believe God means other people to help us. (In this case, DOCTORS) From a Christian standpoint, God wouldn't not have made antibiotics and modern medicine available to us if we were just supposed to use prayer to cure maladies. Pretty sure these parents had a few screws loose.. It people like those that makes the rest of the world think Christians are nuts.

Christianity is not the issue here. These people are mentally ill. I can't believe they were allowed to keep their kid after they let the other one die. They should be in a mental health facility, not jail or out on the streets either. They must be delusional to believe that their child doesn't need to get medical attention especially after one kid died already. I'm a Christian btw. There are a lot of people that make other Christians look bad because they are psychopaths.

^^YUP.

Sorry. I had an after thought. This is man's stupidity not God's. So no one should be blaming Him for these bad choices.