When mature Christians pray, we pray for healing, this is true. We don't pray for healing with the expectation that God will always provide it. We will all die. Either from old age or accidents, or disease, etc. God is not a slave to OUR will, Joe. He is not obligated to OUR will because we pray for it. I mean even very young children understand this. That's why I'm so perplexed by your reaction to your mother's death.
I'm sure you are.
Let' me put it in an example that even your tiny little mind can understand. For whatever reason, you are starving, and you run into a friend who has eaten half a sandwich, but isn't hungry anymore. You haven't eaten in DAYS, and you ask him nicely for some of his sandwich. You Beg him for his sandwich! Instead he takes that half a sandwich and throws it away.
Would that person still be your friend? He could have easily given you half his sandwich. He just chose not to, because he was being kind of a dick.
Let's say that in your relationship with this friend, he's always been a bit pushy, demanding you drop all your plans because he wanted to do something, always insisting you tell him how wonderful he is? **** no, you'd get this kind of malignant narcissist the **** out of your life, if you are smart. Especially when you begged for a sandwich and he let you starve!
You wouldn't tolerate this behavior from a friend, but this is perfectly acceptable to you from a "God"? A God you couldn't even prove exists.
You can maybe make a feeble case about that being the "right thing to do" because it helps people get along in society. But that case falls apart very easily. From your worldview there IS no "Right" and there is no "wrong". You are molecules in motion. You are especially not obligated to help out a single other person. What makes that "right"? Your claims about that being the "Right thing to do" are specious at best.
I thought that case was pretty good.
I help people out of compassion.
You do it out of fear of your Sky Pixie.
Seems to me my motives are a lot more pure than yours.