God’s law states, “You shall not kill.” People have made exceptions to this commandment since it was first written by the hand of God; but are these exceptions which humanity has come to accept, in fact, acceptable to God? I don’t claim to know the thoughts of God on these matters, but as one who claims to know God, I’d rather err on the side of caution than to be found guilty of innocent blood on my hands. Over the years I have refused to use certain birth-control measures because they were abortifactant in nature. I have eight wonderful God-given children as proof of my faithfulness in this matter. I stood against my whole family when I found out they intended to take food and water away from my already dying dad, in the name of “comfort measures.” I saw no comfort in starvation on top of the already devastating disease of necrotizing faciitis (flesh eating bacteria). I see no comfort coming from taking “life sustenance” away from aids babies, people who are severely handicapped, or brain damaged, or anyone else that needs food and water.

Now, I do not see anything wrong with taking “extreme measures” away from patients who would otherwise die on their own without them. Artificial respiration, blood pressure regulators, and maybe even antibiotics, or blood might be considered extreme measures for certain patients. But when it comes to basic life sustaining measures such as nutrition and hydration, I personally believe that crosses the line between trusting God for the good of that patient and playing God by taking measures into our own hands. Those who are arrogant enough to think that they know what’s best for a particular patient and proceed to take away any and all hope for that patient to be miraculously healed by God or allowed to gracefully die in God’s good time, seem to me to be crossing a very big gap on very thin ice. I personally couldn’t support my family’s decision to remove food and water from my father, but just as God allows us to choose between good and evil, I didn’t stand in the way of their choosing what I believe was evil. To me there is a clear line between good and evil, black and white, if you will, whenever you pray to God to reveal it to you through God’s Holy Word. God’s Word says that the Spirit of God can even divide the soul and the spirit and discerns between the thoughts and intents of the heart.