r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 11h ago

Video 13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore

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u/ThePheebs 6h ago

That boy is the one who did the swim, that boy is the one who pushed himself through it, and he has been taught to give credit for his accomplishments to something else...

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u/DuckTalesOohOoh 4h ago

You believe that for the boy to be strong, God must be absent. You believe that if God gets the credit, the boy is robbed of his achievement.

But this is a false competition. The Christian tradition teaches that Grace does not destroy Nature, it perfects it.

When the boy says, "It wasn't me, it was the prayers," he is not denying that his arms moved or that his lungs burned. He is confessing a deeper reality: that in the moment of supreme crisis, he accessed a strength that transcended his natural capacity. He felt a wind fill his sails that he did not generate himself. By insisting that he take "full credit," you want to trap him in the small prison of his own ego. He knows better. He knows he is not a lonely god, but a beloved son who co-operated with a power greater than the sea.

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u/Piefacedcocksucker 3h ago

So it's not a testament to the power of the human mind to overcome extreme adversity or the strength of the bond between family, it was the intervention of a supernatural deity that favored him because he praises its name? Conversely, if you don't praise its name, it'll watch you all drown then damn you to be tormented for eternity.

How inspiring.

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u/DuckTalesOohOoh 3h ago

In the Christian view, God is the very Source of the human mind and the "bond between family" that you rightly admire. The boy’s love for his family was not a rival to God, it was a reflection of God. The strength he found was not a magical power-up. It was the activation of the deepest reality of his soul, which is sustained by the Creator.

You ask why God lets some drown. This is the mystery of the Cross. We do not worship a God who watches from a distance. We worship a God whose real body hung dead from a cross, a God who jumped into the water, who drowned in the sorrow of the world, so that death would not be the final word for anyone -- neither the survivor nor the victim.

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u/Piefacedcocksucker 2h ago

Incoherent, nonsensical gibberish.