Girl Dies After Parents Pray Rather than Seek Medical Attention
An 11-year old girl died in Weston, Wisconsin, recently after her parents prayed for healing rather than seeking medical help for her treatable form of diabetes. They entrusted God to heal her rather than doctors and made no effort to take her to a professional.
While this kind of story is nothing new, it is tragic and shocking none the less. It’s hard to imagine what these people were thinking when it so clearly mentions in the Bible to do the exact opposite. Prayer can help heal, but you can’t simply ignore the problem and trust God to fix everything. The Bible teaches us not to test God as shown in the section about Jesus being tempted by Satan, and that is exactly what these parents did.
If you owned a farm and your animals became thirsty, would you pray for them rather than bring them to water? Of course not, they need a practical solution. After her death, her parents blamed themselves for the death, not because they ignored her medically, but because they “must not have had enough faith.” The parents also have two other girls, who are not being taken away from them, as there is no sign of abuse.
Charges will likely be pressed against the parents of the girl. Her death is currently under investigation. She had been ill for longer than 30 days, suffering symptoms like nausea, vomiting blood, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and physical weakness before finally dying. The parents were aware of her condition and knew that it was fully treatable but still refused to let her get treatment.
Things like this are completely unbelievable. Even more unbelievable is the rate at which they happen – don’t people have any common sense whatsoever anymore? It seems not.