Health and life insurances: Are they against God's power over us?

your friend's husband was foolish to listen to a priest and discontinue his health and life insurance. in what way does this insurance interferes with religion? its only stupid people get such ideas. the priest in question is not a well wisher of any one. nowhere in the scriptures it is mentioned that one should not insure health and life as it goes against god.

Hello caesarin!!! I would consider it as the perfect foolishness of that person in believing in such things. The priest are going on telling the world as they like. These priests want to see this world going on with their thoughts. I can't comply or agree with them. The story was really interesting hehe...And look how foolish that person drowning was. But if the man had been in heaven, then why does he still have the question, when he already found the better place than this earth... If god is the one, then everything that happens here is due to God. People say we are the creation of god. When the good things happen they say it was due to gods wish and when the bad things happen it was our mistake. I don't believe in such things. If whatever that happens is happened due to god, then we are not responsible for anything, god is himself responsible, even for our sins... The priest have made this world even more and more crazier. They are saying this and that, and for everything they say it is the will of god or against the will of god as they like. And even you can't question them why it is? They don't have a strong reason, and the only reason they say it is god's wish. The perfect stupidity to believe on such things. After all most people rather than loving god, they are bound to love god by fear. As it is already stated in the ten commandments, That God is jealous god and you would be sent to hell for not following him. To believe it is another stupidity to me.

Well, I have thought over this many times before. While it is ludicrous that in this age and time we refuse medical aid and health insurance in the name of God, it is equally true that our Karma defines our life. To make my views clearer, I am a firm believer in the Karmic theory of Hinduism...our actions determine our life, both present and future. This, coupled with reincarnation and the cycle of birth and rebirth, comes down to this...good actions ensure a good life and bad actions have similarly bad repurcussions on our lives. We are destined to suffer if our past actions determine so. In this light, it does seem true to challenge and deny God if we seek out ways and means to evade our sufferings. However, be sure I pop that pill everytime I fall sick or I will never hesitate to rush to get medical aid if my friends or family need it.

Proverbs 22:3 (New International Version) 3 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. I think this verse shows that taking precautions is wise. Insurance is a precation in case some calamity comes our way. So it is wise, if one can afford it, to have automobile, fire, heath, and life insurance.

God created illness so that man would have to learn medical knowledge. God wants you to go to the doctor. When a problem is created for a doctor or man, the learning is in the solving. As far as insurance, it is an invention of man which makes the financial burden easier on those who do get sick. You see the healthy ones pay but don't cost. The difference helps those sick and ok course the insurance companies.

Please don't call your husbands friend stupid. It would hurt for you to find out he was calling you stupid, so try not to do things that if the positions were reversed, you'd find hurtful. That said, the priest is wrong. Proverbs 27:12 says that a prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, while the simple pass on and are punished. Insurance is simply a way to safe guard the future, which is widely taught in the bible. Try Proverbs 6:6-8.

I think they need to find insurance against an idiot priest.