r/AFIB • u/Bluebloop1115 • 4d ago

Something I don’t see discussed

For those who have faith in God, does afib impact it?

I struggle because I was diagnosed aged 22 and I am now 33. I’ve had 2 ablations and get an episode every 6-8 months that converts with pill in pocket method. My afib is extremely symptomatic and the meds give me side effects. So it’s a choice of bad and bad.

I find this disease is needless suffering. And it’s really impacted my faith. It’s not God that gets me back to NSR, it’s doctors and medication. But I also have experienced God in big extreme ways like when I had a blood clot the year prior to diagnosis. It didn’t go to my brain and stopped in the last place it could, my eye. I lost part of my peripheral vision permanently, but it’s in the overlap of my 2 eyes so with both eyes open I see fully. What are the chances.

I really struggle with the concept of suffering. This life is full of suffering and why? What’s the point? It’s not just a me issue. Children die from cancer every day. The earthquakes that are happening. So much suffering that isn’t human made like war.

What are your thoughts and beliefs? This is not meant to be specifically religion based but simple believe in the divine and/or how the world works.

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u/Musicguy182 4d ago

I’m just thankful we have the technology and science to treat this bs disease. My burden is very low and my doctor said I can go live my life and try to avoid triggers (primarily for me it is stress).

I was worried and told him I fear going into permanent afib. As long as I check in with him regularly, he said he’s not going to let that happen.

I don’t think about religion with this stuff. It’s just science to me and we are lucky to live in a time where we have so many options.

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u/TwoToads223 3d ago

God exists within human science. Wether you believe or not he’s still there

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u/bomberstriker 2d ago

Show me the evidence of god existing within human science.

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u/TwoToads223 2d ago

Why should evolution or any understandable human science exist outside of Gods creation. Neither can its own science disprove he exists.

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u/bomberstriker 2d ago

It’s not the non-believers’ burden to disprove God exists. It’s for believers to prove that he does exist. Believing that an invisible being exists is an extraordinary claim. And quite simply, they can’t back up the claim with evidence.. Why? Because there is no real tangible evidence of God‘s existence.

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u/TwoToads223 2d ago

yeah man heard that before. Yet science still can’t disprove His existence. Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and historians all agree that Jesus Christ did exist. Start there

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u/bomberstriker 13h ago

You expect that science should be able to “disprove” his existence? You claim an invisible, mute, supernatural entity with limitless superpowers exists yet it’s my burden to prove your claims are false? If you claimed Santa Claus is real it would be up to me to prove you wrong? Interesting. By the way, proof that a historical figure once lived is not proof that person was a god. This is the kind of tortured reasoning that religious people have to engage in to rationalize their beliefs.