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     I got a call from a friend urgently asking for a prayer for a young family member who had just had what looked like a heart attack. I called back, and the child had been transferred to a better hospital. The prayer had been that she get admitted to the better hospital in spite of the bureaucrats saying it was covered on her insurance. My friend said that God had "blown down doors" and made it possible for her to be admitted.
     Because I am very literal minded, I made myself look at that event in the abstract and immediately ran into problems with it. That is because there is supposedly a child dying of starvation in this world every six sentences. Why would God blow down doors to a better hospital but let millions of others die of starvation? Would you really tell one of the grieving mothers of these dead babies, that God had blown down doors for your child to get to a better hospital? Why would he favor your child over others? If you want to go Old Testament and reply that he is a capricious god, then I would ask you what evidence do you have for this capricious god even existing. As the old lady used to say, "Where's the beef?" Looked at in the abstract - as a principle- it seems pompous to credit God with any act considering the horrible suffering in the world. Why did he help you? Because you're so much better than the millions of babies and children dying of hunger?