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When survival guilt intersects with questions about divine selection

I keep asking God why he saved me from the car accident but not my brother who was the better person, and the silence is deafening.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Being spared while others perish raises unbearable questions about worthiness and divine judgment that have no satisfactory answers.

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