You see the other problem is we already allow poeple to live longer when ill because we sustain them with machines. More often than not and I would put money on the fact that these "deformed" babies are not surviving on their own. What about braindead people (from accidents or otherwise) that are only alive because we've hooked them up to machines? Is that not playing God by your definition? If we "had let it to nature" than a lot of ICU people would have been dead long ago. Now we have this issue where we think it's killing if we take them off the machines. Either way we are really playing God when we use medicine and surgery. We have to "keep people alive" while we cut them open and replace their heart or put stents in their arteries. Operations we have to circumvent the natural course God has given us and even more often we have placed on ourselves. How many overweight, smoking drinking, etc people have heart surgery?
We have given ourselves a shortened life by our own actions and then we go and try to make our body last longer than "God intended". We have made these questions harder on ourselves and God was not considered in the matter I'm sure. So be careful of the argument you use. And to simply save the bible tells us not to "kill" is inacurate when the whole word is taken into context. God commanded whole nations of people to be executed and we kill animals and plants every day so we can eat.
It's a hard question for sure and again I would want to know how long these babies would live without any fancy intervention. Such as if the child has no brain (it can't worship either we take some things out of context) then it's heart will not pump and it will die shortly.
Now what do you think?
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Sure people are kept alive my machines, (Not something that I would want), not something that we allowed when my oder brother fell over dead when he was chopping wood. Some have signed living wills asking for their life to be sustained by what ever means, others have asked just the opposite. Problem with alot of this is the money issue, some can't afford it, dont want the burden left to their families, some are scared of death and will do what ever it takes to pospone it. Maybe they need that extra time too.But who decieded for these babies, doctors, parents. Who is held responsilbe? Man stands back and says will it was for the best, poor dears never had a chance. But what about in God's eyes? Who will stand before the Judgement throne of God. If we could remember to measure everything by its eternal value maybe some of the ugly of the world could be diverted........(sure in a perfect world right). In this case there isn't surgery, machines. The article doesn't say how the doctore kills these babies either. BUt either way I don't believe anyone has the right to take a life. I forget the young womens name who when taken of the machine would starve to death.......but that is a big arguement too. Man put her on it, so when is enough enough. I don't have an answer.
But the articles says nothing of machines in these 4 deaths. Some parents agreed to at least one of the murders,I wonder why don't they kill their own baby? The doctor did the Killing, he determined the extreme deformations, and as much as my heats wants to stop the babies pain this doesn't justify killing them. I'm horrified that now some how killing them is an option ! This should never be offered to begin with. The doc/parents purposely took their lives becuase it was more humane than allowing the baby to die a natural death........because of the pain involved, if you believe I took the scriptures out of context I'm sorry, but if they have no brain then the have no pain either so let nature take it coarse......... (I don't intend to take scripture out of context, not sure what you meant). If a rock can worship a defromed child has the right to life, no matter how long that life is. They are still a creation of God we have no right to take what few minutes, hours or days they have away from them,.....pain and suffering is a apart of life, it was a part of Christ's life. Is it wrong to want to stop that pain and suffering NO, is it wrong to stop it my cold blooded murder YES. Anything done to stop the childs life aside of letting them die is wrong.
Thou shall not kill...... we can't play God, there is no taking this out of context. I don't understand why God called the Iserlites to kill all, man, women, child and beast, maybe because they were pagan nations that would lead the people of God astray, and they did many times. I'm not going to say God is wrong, thats his business not ours I don't undertand why. I hardly believe this Doctor is called on by God to kill these babies. I know his is God, just and mighty, far superior in his wisdom than man.
There is no taken the commandment out of context... Thous shall not kill. God word even when he was calling the Iserlites to kill. I defend the right of the innocent baby who has no says so, no matter how deformed they are. I pretty sure that no person is born the way God intended to begin with. Man has most defiantly shortend their own lives by their own actions, so still the fall of man play the biggest role in this mess.
Thous shall not kill.....bottom line no matter what side of the slipper slope you stand on, there is no justifying murder of an innocent, slow painful death of a deformed baby. What is this life.....,long, short, easy or hard but after is eternity heaven or hell. I guess this depends on how some see death. Its not the end it the beginning, I see these babies as very blessed, after dieing they are in Jesus arms WOW. If you sliced everything out of any humans life between birth and thier death what differences would there be? For these babies its straignt to heaven, for those who have lived, well much more is involved in that mix.
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