What if a child is hit by a car and is critically injured, can a parent refuse have the child treated by medical professionals?
What if a child is hit by a car and is critically injured, can a parent refuse have the child treated by medical professionals?
Again, it is a principle thing for me. Principles are more important than life itself, and before the state became all powerful this was the type of decision that was left to the parents. We may have disagreed with their decision, but we defended their right to make it. Thing is, Christians see this life as infinitely brief. All men live the exact same length of time. We call that time “today”. None of us have a lasting future - in this body. If ones parents make poor choices when you are in their care, you may see fewer “todays” but they will answer to God for their misshandling of your future.
And to one degree or another, we all misshandle our children’s future. I don’t like getting between parents and their children except in “over the top” circumstances (e.g. the mother in Carrie).
Good question really. We should have enough faith to believe for the supernatural as well as to believe f God is not required to do the supernatural and can use the natural (as Isaiah and Paul once recommended), and can use doctors as well as mechanics. However, this is a 1st amendment issue, and in which there are both guarantees and limitations of freedom.
Spanking is to be allowed, but not abuse, and in the case of a child being hit by a car and critically injured, refusal to allow normal treatment by medical professionals would be wrong as a norm, as i think faith needs to be exercised before medical professionals arrive, and if need remains, then we need to have enough faith that they will help the child.