WAUSAU, Wis. (Aug. 1) - A Wisconsin man accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care was found guilty Saturday of second-degree reckless homicide.
Dale Neumann, 47, was convicted in the March 23, 2008, death of his daughter, Madeline, from undiagnosed diabetes. Prosecutors contended he should have rushed the girl to a hospital because she couldn't walk, talk, eat or speak. Instead, Madeline died on the floor of the family's rural Weston home as people surrounded her and prayed. Someone called 911 when she stopped breathing.
I think these people forget that God works through people and also forget that God can heal in a multitude of ways, chiefly by working through people. A healing is a healing, if you pray for her to be healed and a doctor fixes her, is the prayer not answered? was she not healed?
Neumann, who once studied to be a Pentecostal minister, testified Thursday that he believed God would heal his daughter and he never expected her to die. God promises in the Bible to heal, he said.
"If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God," Neumann testified. "I am not believing what he said he would do."
Taking the girl to the doctor is not putting the doctor before God, since nowhere in the bible does it state or show that God will heal a certain way. By that logic the people that lived in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago that took their sick to the Disciples were putting the 'doctor before God.'
Matthew 10:8
8Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy,[a]drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
The disciples were given the ability to heal and people took their sick to them, so there is nothing wrong with taking the sick to the doctor, and doing so is not putting the doctor before God. This brings to mind a very relevant scripture.
Hosea 4:6
6 my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.
We are indeed destroyed by lack of knowledge, this being a prime example. I pray God forgive the parents for their ignorance.
1 comments:
You are, of course, absolutely right (in that God works through doctors - Of course - if we consider the bible, God always works through people to carry out his divine will).
I think it's important to recognize that this man's prayers for his child were actually answered, despite his crime, which is unbelievable to me - God's will always prevails, and it is ALWAYS for our ultimate good, no matter how much pain, crime, and hurt his people do: God certainly answered this man's prayers, though not in the way he expected them to be answered - this child was healed by being removed from a father who appeared to be too mentally ill to care for her. She is no longer in pain, and her father hopefully realizes that although humans are meant to carry on God's will, if a human being does not carry on God's will, God will take matters into his own hands and justice will be served. I think this is clear from this man's story.
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