Reader are our Lives Predestined for us from birth to death? Some say yes. This is the argument surrounding the decision made by this Pennsylvania couple in not seeking medical help for their dying baby. The couple is on trial for the death of their 2-year-old daughter after resorting to faith healing in lieu of taking her to a doctor.
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When Ella Grace Foster came down with pneumonia in late 2016, her parents, Jonathan and Grace Anne Foster, chose not to seek traditional medical care because it's not supported by their religion. Instead, they opted for a treatment plan of prayer and anointing oils. They asked Ella’s grandfather, a pastor, to come pray for her in the hopes that God would heal the illness.
Ella died in her father’s arms the next day after hours spent struggling to breathe. When asked why the child wasn’t taken to a hospital, Grace Anne appeared to believe that her daughter’s death was preordained:
If we believe this, then there are many of us who think that no matter what we do nothing will change in our lives. Everything stays the same throughout our life for this is our destiny. But there is something that we often forget and that is we are born with the ability to have free will( the ability to make decisions that will change the course of our lives.)
Free will allows us to change our lives whenever we see fit. Sometimes we make these decisions for the good and sometimes they are not very good for us, but they are our decisions and choices. The most important thing is that we can change what our destinies are no matter what circumstances we fall into, we just have to have the faith that we can.
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When Ella Grace Foster came down with pneumonia in late 2016, her parents, Jonathan and Grace Anne Foster, chose not to seek traditional medical care because it's not supported by their religion. Instead, they opted for a treatment plan of prayer and anointing oils. They asked Ella’s grandfather, a pastor, to come pray for her in the hopes that God would heal the illness.
Ella died in her father’s arms the next day after hours spent struggling to breathe. When asked why the child wasn’t taken to a hospital, Grace Anne appeared to believe that her daughter’s death was preordained:
“I think God just wanted her back,” she said. “I believe that whether she died of this or we were in an accident that morning, He knew she was going to come home that day.”
If we believe this, then there are many of us who think that no matter what we do nothing will change in our lives. Everything stays the same throughout our life for this is our destiny. But there is something that we often forget and that is we are born with the ability to have free will( the ability to make decisions that will change the course of our lives.)
Free will allows us to change our lives whenever we see fit. Sometimes we make these decisions for the good and sometimes they are not very good for us, but they are our decisions and choices. The most important thing is that we can change what our destinies are no matter what circumstances we fall into, we just have to have the faith that we can.
