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freerain
I agree with you. Those who have faith in God give a lot of credit to the wrong sources. As I am sure he will thank God for his recovery and ignore his own will to live and the help of the hospital staff.
He actually did not leave his wife and kids to do his missionary work. He met her over there and lives in her native country, where he does most of his work from. So his family is right there with him. And she does the missionary work as well.
I checked out Wiki on it as well and saw the same thing. From his report he should be just over the half way mark on now. I also saw that it seems to only be fatal about 1% of the time, so that looks good for him. He was in good health last I knew and always seemed to have a strong will for life. Hell, his two kids can only help to make that desire to live all the stronger.
Not much I can do from here, and as I said in the post, this kind of thing makes me understand why so many need to believe in the power of prayer so badly. I can understand waiting to believe you can do something when you know you are powerless.Thanks for the comment
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kooka_lives
on July 14, 2007 at 8:24 PM
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Facts or Faith
Dear Kooka, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. It is to the credit of intelligent people who have studied this disease to assist him through the ordeal as best they can. Then it is up to him to have the will to survive. He will default that will to "God" and this will become his measure of faith, whatever his fate. He is in a hospital and not still out and about preaching or ministering among the "ignorant" masses as he determined was his calling by God. When it came to life or death, he chose life by choosing science and medicine but should he survive he will undoubtedly credit it to his faith in God and the prayers and faithfulness of those who join in on the masquerade. Even if he dies, those who have defaulted their minds to mysticism will undoubtedly say it was God's will. In reality it was his own.
My only question is, and I suppose I know the answer, what insanity or self-grandisement possessed your young friend to leave his wife and children and put himself in so much danger of loosing life itself. Taking a vow of marriage and having "God given" children sounds to me enough of a place to do God's work caring for and raising them to adulthood.
Reading on Wiki it says that the danger lasts as long as the fever, 6-7 days. He may be on the road to recovery at this very moment.
FR
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freerain
on July 14, 2007 at 7:38 PM
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