I have a friend who has a child who is (for generic terms) sick. So, illness and the possibility of death often come into our conversations between her child being sick and my job. Religious/spiritual beliefs often come up as well.
Today, we had a very odd conversation (well, other people will probably find it odd) and it ended with what I found to be a hilarious quote from her.
Somehow we got on the topic of people being "cured by God". The quotes are mine, not hers. Since I do not believe in God, I feel pretty cynical about this issue. I try not to . . . but I can't help it. And, I told her that I didn't feel God was going around and touching children/people and curing them. She said that she felt it was possible, but not likely. I like that we can have opposing views and not argue about it.
But, she was telling me about a family of a hospice patient she had assisted with. When the patient died, they wanted the hospital to leave the deceased relative in the hospital bed for 24 hours in case God wanted to bring her back to life/cure her.
I got a good laugh out of this. I asked my friend why God couldn't "cure" her if she was down in the morgue? Would he not be able to find her? Did he not have access to the morgue?
And my friend's reply was . . . "God can cure cancer, but he can't defrost you."
I pointed out the following:
1. You aren't frozen in the morgue . . . you are in a cooler.
2. And, if God could do something as big as bring you back to life . . . would it matter if your body temperature was a little lower than the room temp?
So, there it is . . . God has limits.
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Maybe God has an attention span like yours. If he has to wait or a body to defrost or warm up, he gets impatient and moves on to the next soul to be saved.
Perhaps that makes you more godlike than you thought.
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