Posted by:
think4u
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Date: May 10, 2011 07:47PM
Last year when my granddaughter died, the very saddest part to me was watching how her mom ( my daughter) and her husband who had to my knowledge told everyone this child would live, struggled to live with what was a very unexpected outcome for them.
I just do not see how mormon's continue to believe in all that they do when they feel strongly that God has told them a certain thing, and so priesthood blessings are given to that affect, in this case that this baby would live, and then the outcome is not what they were so very sure they were told would happen by the power of the HG.
When my daughter first asked me if I thought her baby would ever come home, she was angry with me when I told her "No, I do not think so". When I told her I thought it might be God's greatest miracle and gift to their entire family, as they have 5 other children, to take this little girl home, again she was very upset.
One day she came to my home and asked me how I addressed God, if I called him by the name Heavenly Father, and was upset when I said "no, I just referred to him as God"
Then she asked if I prayed for her daughter to live, and when I said "No, only that God's will will be done", again she was very upset. Even the mormon church teaches that ,correct?
It is SO strange, because now she even denies these conversation, at least most of them, ever took place. What is that about? I honestly think she does not remember them somehow. Anyway, soon, thereafter, the baby died.
She mentioned a couple of times what a hard time they were having trying to reconcile things in their minds, and with me being no longer mormon, she really did not want to discuss it further with me, which I completely respected.
How do they justify this to themselves and keep on believing? Can they not see the "priesthood" has no power to save terminally ill individuals? 1 or 2 "miracles" out of a hundred is just coincidence or modern medicine. It is so very obvious.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 05/10/2011 10:16PM by think4u.