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Steven
October 31st, 2005, 12:02 AM
Can I die if God doesnt want me to die? The answer is a obvious no, but can anyone show me scripture to back it up. Ive been thinking how easier my life and preaching the gospel would be if I knew there was an appointed day of death for me.
janh7
October 31st, 2005, 12:11 AM
Ps. 139
16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
janh7
October 31st, 2005, 12:14 AM
Job 14:5
Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.
Steven
October 31st, 2005, 08:42 AM
Very comforting! :D:
Transformed
October 31st, 2005, 02:03 PM
Hebrews 9:27, "it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment..."
Steven
October 31st, 2005, 02:18 PM
What about suicide and murder, I am sure God did not plan these things.
Apollo
October 31st, 2005, 07:37 PM
What about suicide and murder, I am sure God did not plan these things.

My wife died of cancer at 22. She had just given birth to twins a half year earlier and we were faced with a choice of either try to save her or save the boys.

Why God heaped this decision on us at such a young age is beyond me. It's cruel, unfair and painful beyond words. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of her and feel that same pain in my heart as the day that we buried her.

After much thought, pray, counseling and faith I've come to two conculisions. Either there is a reason for everything, murder, sucide, cancer or there is a reason for nothing.

I've choosen to believe that God works through chaos theory. One change causes a ripple effect that changes entire lives. Maybe my wife and would have been bad parents. We definatively would have lived somewhere else and maybe one of us would have gotten run over by a fruit truck. Who knows. The mind of God is infinate and I can't even comprehend the mind of a six year old, much less his.

What I've choosen to believe is that Nora had a certain number of days to live and my boys were God's gift to her, and to me, so that her spirit on this world not fade away.
I Believe!!!
October 31st, 2005, 10:16 PM
What I've choosen to believe is that Nora had a certain number of days to live and my boys were God's gift to her, and to me, so that her spirit on this world not fade away.


That's a beautiful way to think of your situation...