Has anyone almost died, and had everyone tell you that "god was watching over you"?

Question

I came as close to death as one could get 2 wks after giving birth. I had Placenta accreta and lost approx 4.5 L of blood.

Anyway, people were constantly saying that God must have been looking out for me. Even the nurses in the ICU and OR said this. I politely smiled, but it gets irritating. I was polite to the Chaplin when he came to see me, but politley turned him down when he offered to pray with me.

Why do they assume that I am religeous, or believe in god? My husband even said that god was trying to show me that he exists. Blah blah blah. Yeah, god gave me a rare placental cond. to show me. Whatever. I survived because my Dr. was awesome, and maybe I have a strong soul (yes, I can believe I have a soul - w/o believing in god).

I wish people would quit trying to blame god or try to give god credit for anything and everything. Give it a rest.

Give the drs credit when credit is due. Thank medical science and technology. Not everything is a "sign" or has a deeper meaning. Sometimes sh** happens!

Any opinions or similiar experiences?

Answer 1

It didn't happen to me, but to my husband.  God (Holy Spirit) told me personally to get him to the hospital, even though he was fine at the time.  It was such a powerful presence, I couldn't ignore it, nor could my husband ignore my insistence.  Within 30 minutes of his entering the emergency room, getting hooked up to an EKG, etc., he had a MASSIVE heart attack.  Three different cardiologists told us that if he hadn't been in the hospital when it struck, he would never have survived it.  As it was, there was absolutely no damage done to his heart.  He went on to have 2 stents put into aortic arteries that were 95% blocked.

My husband is now a believer and knows that God gave him a second chance.

Yes, God is AWESOME!  And I'm so grateful for His presence in my life!

D1

Answer 2

Wait until more bad stuff happens and he saves you. I used to be atheist and my dad almost died in a motorcycle accident, I had major surgery, My uncles almost died, Etc. The devil didn't win, and I thanks God for saving us.

Answer 3

dunno

what about all the other people who die?

Answer 4

They may ASSUME that your a religious Christian simply because where you live. I almost died in a car accident (though, everyone does) and the same thing happened to me, although, I live in the Bible Belt. And quite frankly, it really pissed me off after a while. The doctor is really getting robbed, but oh well, what are you going to do, thats our stupid society we live in.

My Catholic GF told me I needed to see a priest because I have recurring nightmares..

I hate it. Whenever anything happens to me, good or bad, they always have to say something.. I've heard everything from "God is punishing you for not believing in him!" or "The devil isn't testing you because your GOING TO h**l anyways" or even "God HATES bisexuals."

Gets on your nerves, doesn't it? :|

Answer 5

i almost died a few years ago, was in ICU four days..good docs got me thru

Answer 6

Hello,

Great question! I have never really been close to death, but I have been told a lot that "God must have been watching out for me."

I completely agree that some people wear it out. They blame or give everything to God's credit. I believe in God, but at the same time I think there are some situations He may interfere or alter, and there are some things that just happen because of free will or medicine or good doctors.

Also, I hope the people wanting to pray for you didn't offend you. They were probably just trying to give you hope & comfort. I completely respect your belief that God doesn't exist. I have often doubted and disbelieved in the existence of God myself. I think everyone at some point has serious doubts or serious questions. I think questions are perfectly normal. They lead to a deeper understanding. Some of the greatest discoveries or inventions in life started with deep questions. Most scientific breakthroughs started with someone being skeptical and really questioning things. And my own personal belief in God came from deep questions, skeptiscism, and doubts.

But I often wonder how much God does interfere. The Bible teaches that God does definitely sometimes interfere, but others it is our choice. Sometimes people take things out of context as you said & over use it.

I completely respect your beliefs that God doesn't exist, and like I said there was a time in my life where I really didn't at all. But I tried to keep an open mind, and I looked at all scientific and religious information that I could and compared the evidence. I found out that at the end of the day, you really can't prove God does exist or that God doesn't exist. But I realized that whether you believe in God or not, you have to have "faith" in something, simply because I wasn't there when the earth was created. I believe that religion without science is foolish. But at the same time science without God isn't too wise either. I believe God created our scientific laws, atoms, and everything else.

The universe and time as we know it did have a beginning (as most scienctific theories indicate), so something most likely started it. According to the Bible God is the only thing which has never been created. He has no start or end. So in my mind, rewind to the beginnings of it all before anything ever existed, God is all there was.

Sure, maybe God did create some forms of change and evolution (although I don't think that is how life originated exactly). But all living things have genetics. Genetics are simply a code arranged in a pattern to mean something. All we have is matter in this universe. Who wrote or designed the code? Without the code, it is all just matter and atoms. Why did the matter decide to arrange itself? I say that because a computer works by using a binary system of 1's and 0's. That is all it is. But a computer software guy comes along and writes scripts to manipulate the 1's and 0's and says, "okay, I will arrange 5 1's in a row and 2 0's, this means blue.  So who stated the laws of the universe? Who commanded how many electrons each atom would have? That is my question, I believe God is the answer. Again, this is just me sharing my thoughts, and I mean no offense to anyone.

I personally put my faith in God, and started to examine it more closely. The only thing I can suggest is that you don't have a closed mind. Look at scientific arguments, look at atheists arguments, but also look at religious explanations and arguments for the existence of God. Compare the evidence and come to your own conclusions-but always keep an open mind.

Great question, and I definitely agree that some people over-use God as an excuse or reason as to why things happen, when I do believe many things are due to chance or free will or our own fault, but some things are attributable to God. Also, I am glad that you were able to pull through. It sounds like it was a very scary situation you had. Have a great day!

Answer 7

Opinions yes. The whole notion that medical science thinks that God is the real reason for these happenings, is c**p. They need to read a bit more of Galileo and how the church responded to his ideas. You just can't have it both ways.

Answer 8

What's even worse is people who think they saw Jesus on their toasted bread.

Or the Virgin Mary on the ripple of their bathwater.

Answer 9

Yes, on two separate occasions.  One time, when I was younger, I ODed on drugs, and another time I was poisoned.  However, no one had ever told me that god was watching over me, and it did not do anything to bring me closer to believing in god; I'm still agnostic in my beliefs.

Answer 10

I did die in 1976. My sole left my body and I watched myself being rescued from above. When I was brought back to life, my sole re-entered my body. In 1977 a study came out, in the theaters, called "Life After Death".  In this study when people had died they went anywhere from above the body, to much higher above, to the judgment waiting area, or to h**l. Only the ones that had tried to kill themselves went strait to h**l. All of the rest went to wait in the judgment area. And will stay there until it is the time for the judgment. There are a few exceptions, stated in the Bible, where very special ones that did all as they did obeying God maybe even more like dieing for God  and Jesus, may go strait to heaven!

Other films and studies on Life After Death have been done since then. Science has even proved it. Jesus said we will be tested here on earth! So what seems bad to you is most likely one of those tests.

I am the mother of two kidnapped children. Will I ever see them again? Heaven only knows, for I don't.  This is painful. Have you ever had nine years of pain like this? I doubt it. And I don't cuss either.

Answer 11

I've nearly died bunches of times.

1. Before Ican remember I was climbing op on a truck with metal frame on top of the bed.  I fell.  I am told that my head had been split open, and had to get stiches.  Of course I don't remember it.

2. When I was in 4th grade I was learning how to swim, and I dived down in the shallow water to see if I could touch the bottom.  Of course I didn't realize I didn't have enough air, and had to be pulled up by my dad, before I drowned.

3.  I was in 5th grade and nearly choked on a chicken nugget.

However, nobody's told me that God was watching out for me.  I just know it.

Answer 12

Doctors are good, no doubt.

But they cannot help every time otherwise nobody would die. That's when God comes in. The problem of death can be solved only by God because He is also the Originator of life.

Answer 13

God will use all kinds of different things to pull you closer to Him. He knocks and knocks on your heart;s door, but the handle is inside. Eventually you die, and then you change is over

Answer 14

I was born six and a half weeks premature, at home, with hypothermia and pneumonia, among other things.

Aged 7, I contracted Hepatitis, thankfully, I am fully recovered now.

Oh yeah, when I was 2, I had an overdose of pills that my mum was testing to combat depression. They didn't even have a name yet, let alone an anti-drug or whatever.

I believe that God has big things planned for me, and that is why I pulled through.

A family friend (atheist) was in a car accident and was very badly injured; his face was "mashed up" and his brain was badly damaged, as well as broken bones, etc. The hospital staff told us he wouldn't make it through the night "less than 1%". We put him on our church prayer chain as a metter of urgency and he's healthy enough, walking around today. He's slightly brain damaged and needs glasses, and walks and talks differently, but he's alive. That's a miracle to me.

You may not believe in God, but He belives in you.

You may not love Him, but He loves you unconditionally.

Devoted1 - Wow! That's amazing!

Answer 15

I have almost died many times, 2 of which involved plane crashes, 1 an AK47 bullet, 3 rockets, a few explosions, falling glass, a red Porsche and one refugee.

I consider myself lucky.

But I do believe in God.  I do believe there is something greater then us.

"Ask and ye shall receive."

"Dear God, please save my wife"

"Thank medical science and technology. "

God gives us the capabilities, imo.

4.5L is a lot of blood considering the average human has 5Ls. You are lucky to be alive.  

http://www.fda.gov/hearthealth/healthyhe...

"Placenta accreta affects approximately 1 in 2,500 pregnancies."

"in severe forms can often... be fatal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placenta_ac...

You're right. Not everything is a sign; however, if indeed "sometimes **it happens", then you being alive today is random and totally meaningless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_perm...

What do you believe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random#Rand...

"Randomness is an objective property. Nevertheless, what appears random to one observer may not appear random to another observer. Consider two observers of a sequence of bits, only one of whom has the cryptographic key needed to turn the sequence of bits into a readable message. The message is not random, but is unpredictable for one of the observers."

I don't even know you and I believe there is a reason you survived.

It's just time for you to find it.

Does this mean there's a God? Of course not, but you must also recognize that to take something random and make it non random requires outside input.

Is there a God? Who knows.  If there is, it looks like you've been blessed. So, thank the doctors. Thank the nurses. Thank the machines.  And then thank your lucky stars.

Answer 16

Wheewh! Now  that you've gotten all of that out of you, here goes: Has anyone almost died, and had everyone tell you that "God was watching over you?" My answer to that is a resounding YES! I am very grateful for those statements and the prayers to our Heavenly Father, also. Baby Love----God  is trying to tell you something.-----Like it or hate it , God is trying to tell you something. The enemy has tried to take me out many times, but God said no. I have been given the diagnosis of  MS (   relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis ), which has caused all of my major organs to forget  how to function. Basically, they all shut down, my heart and lungs have filled with my own bodily fluids, which confused my kidneys. The milk which I was put on to sustain my life while I was in a coma, caused me to become diabetic. I was put on life support, with oxygen, and a trache was put into my neck. I was poked and prodded so many times that special IV lines ( central lines, pic lines, and hep-locks) had to be placed in me when my veins collapsed. Many Doctors,. and nurses paraded through  my ICU room. The clergy was called  in many times when my Doctors  said that I wouldn't last though the night. I could no longer walk or do anything for myself  but the people who helped me through this period of my life, believed in something much greater than themselves or their own abilities,greater than me, greater a paycheck. They believed in God. They all have unique healing abilities, but they gave the Glory to God. I am grateful that I didn't have Narcissistic caretakers. You see----God is the one who gave them the unique abilities to heal someone in the 1st place! My doctors prayed with me, when I didn't have the strength to speak from the surgeries and the trache.Oh, and I am walking again and there are no visible signs of my most recent hospital stay, except for the Battle scars. I was discharged from the hospital last month after a 7 month stay. God was in the midst of everything that involved my care, and I give God the Glory. Hallelujah!