hey let's stop focusing on the religion part of my post and maybe more on the hey wow medical miracle cool
i wasn't trying to start a debate or something; i'm just a christian and i don't see why i should have to censor out my thoughts just so people won't bash on my religion. i was just saying what i experienced. I'm A ~Christian~, Deal With It. if you don't believe in god, that's fine. but why make that the one thing you talk about in here, openly bashing it and calling religious people stupid and arrogant, when the topic starter herself (that's me, it was me, guys) is very much a christian. kinda rude imo.
if you do want to talk about religious stuff, i'm glad to do so. but i don't want to talk to someone who is just going to call me stupid simply because i believe something different from them. i have my own reasons to believe in god, and you have your reasons not to. it's not something you can definitively prove or disprove, so stop acting like the only possible option for a sane person is to say "FU*K GOD SATAN 4EVER send me to Hell because i am that hardkore".
/!\ RELIGIOUS VIEWPOINT COMING THROUGH! WARNING TO THOSE WHO CAN'T TOLERATE IT AND BE OPEN-MINDED! /!\ yeah i know it's tough to believe in a god who allows bad things to happen. if my sister hadn't survived, i'm sure i would have been devastated. but i don't think that would make me not believe in god. the world is full of sin and bad things happen because of the world's impurities. but i know that god represents all that is perfect and he would never wish anything bad upon any of his children. still, it's tough to understand all of this stuff. and maybe it's impossible to. but i know that god is watching out for everyone. people's bad decisions can get them (and those who they are related to) into trouble, but god still is there to help should anyone ask for his comfort and grace.
bareback alabama, i'm sorry to hear that your dad died from drugs. but of course it's not because you didn't pray enough or whatever. god does not fulfill prayers for miracles according to how much faith the person had or anything like that. god has a plan for everyone, and he'll let that plan follow through. if his plan was for my sister to die, then that is what would've happened. but i know he wouldn't just leave us in the dust. if we asked god for comfort, he would give it to us. however, he will ALWAYS be there to comfort you and take away your worries if you pray for something like that. i can't say why it happened that your dad passed away, just as i would be confused why my sister died if she had. but as i said, the world is full of sin because people have free will. if we didn't, though, we'd just be robots and we wouldn't be able to choose to follow god anyway. your dad made some bad decisions, i'm sure. and i would bet that it got so bad that he wasn't reaching out to god anymore for help. however, i'm sure he went to heaven if he had at one point believed in god and all that when he was a deacon, because being saved by god does not go away even if you stray from god.
btw for the person who mentioned it (dietcoke?) i'm just saying that i'm pretty sure the bible says that all babies go to heaven. look it up if you're curious. and for the one who said "i'd rather go to hell than be in one long church service" well uuuh that's not what heaven is like at all and maybe you should not be ignorant about it before you say things. just read the bible, it describes heaven perfectly. it's a perfect place where there are no negative feelings like boredom, pain, or sadness. everything you could ever want is there. and hell is the complete opposite. trust me, nobody would like it. so before you guys call me ignorant and stupid, please go research your facts about what the bible really says before you even joke about these things~
oh and yeah it seems like it would be tough to miss my sister being on drugs. but in my defense, she is 7 years older than me. i was born in the same year that she started doing drugs. so the sister i know is the one that has always been sort of "spacey" and weird. she was never the type to disappoint the family, so her drug use was completely limited to when she was outside the house and not at risk of being caught. also, she didn't start doing the "really bad" drugs like cocaine and heroin until more recently. when she was a teenager, it was mostly just stuff like Robo-tripping, smoking pot, abusing prescription medicine, etc... it wasn't until she went on her trip across the USA that she had started cocaine and heroin (stupid hippies influenced her i guess).