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taking this thread in a new direction!!!
Title: Faith and Death
I spole with my mom today, who as I mentioned is a charismatic type believer. If anyone wonders why I am not putting a denomination, she calles herself non denominational. So I am trying to describe her beliefs. Anyway, a friend of hers son died. He was a bit older than I am, so I am gonna say maybe 40? and he had a sudden, massive heart attack. You know, the type where no one gets to say goodbye. So the parents are believing for a miracle and are going to have a healing ceremony to raise him from the dead.
A few years ago one of my cousins sons was drowned. It was horrible because he was only about 15 months old. The same thing, they gathered everyone together and prayed over him, I wasnt there, but the way I was told, his mother was convinced there was still life even tho the Dr's had pronounced him dead. Let me just say, this is so devastating for these people. The basis of this belief is that if you have enough faith it will happen. You have to believe hard enough. If someone is in the room who dont believ strongly enough, they are asked to leave the room. Their unbelief could keep the miracle from happening. So what your left with is a grieving family who is now overwhelmed by guilt that they were unable to believe enough to raise this person from the dead.
So I asked my mom, what is wrong with this religion that you can have enough faith to raise the dead, but you dont believe in a hereafter. Of course if they are asked, they look forward to heaven and all its promises, but when it comes to putting their money where their mouth is, well they obviously are terrified of death.
Isnt the very basis of christian belief that Jesus died to save us and we get eternal life, which we have to die to claim?
I'd be interested in anyone elses thought on this..........as in, what do you think death is?
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