Does god feel that amputees are never worthy of having their prayers answered? Or could it be that no gods actually exist, and that the only time people get what they pray for is when it would have happened anyway in the natural course of events?
2006-06-19 06:05:05 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because prayer can't cause anything to happen. All answers to prayer (at least that I ever heard of) are things that could happen natually anyway. Growing back a severed limb is not something that happens natually--not for humans anyway.
2006-06-19 06:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by mikayla_starstuff 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The last part "the only time people get what they pray for is when it would have happened anyway in the natural course of events" is perfect. Irrefutable.
Now every prayer is potential, and does have the fulfilling energy. But generally, there is an accompanying counter thought 'will it happen? ' and this neutralises the potential. Also, is it not possible that many people have already prayed to allow natural course of events to happen (since they felt that nature is a better judge than all people's minds put together !)? Then even logically, it follows that such bulk prayers get priority, and ought to be fulfilled. Many renowned thinkers have spent lots of time and sincere efforts and have loosely termed the process as Universal Mind or so. A very vague term but close to real possibility. The question itself is truly a thought provoking one. It is worth looking at this question more than once, within, for it can open possibilities to awareness of deeper levels of consciousness !
2006-06-19 06:18:03 · answer #2 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God knows everything, but He doesn't want us to know everything. That's why all the miracles that He performs are things that are never completely visible. Sure, He can heal cancer, but He will always make sure that we, the people, will never be able to fully prove that He did it. Healing an amputation is just too visible for us normal people. Full proof would be concidered as evidence that God exists, and He can't have that, now can he?
God also made people rise from the dead, but he made sure that happened in an age when camera's didn't exist. (yet He knew that the camera would be invented later). This all to be sure that it wouldn't get too visible. Actually, God made sure that the big visible miracles kinda stopped after the camera was invented. The only miracles left for Him to perform are the things we cannot catch on camera. That's why He heals cancer, or other internal deseases.
He also makes sure that when there are cameras around, that we humans still can't prove that it is a visible miracle. The athlete that won the last olympic final at the 100m sprint, he did a little prayer before he started running, and of course he won. God is good in those sorts of miracles. Just to make sure that we didn't get any camera-proof for His miracle, he also made the other seven finalists do the exact same prayer-ritual before they started running. I think God just hates proof.
2006-06-19 06:34:33 · answer #3 · answered by Thinx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does exist. ALL things happen for a reason, we do not know why and cannot explain it. Someday though we will know. Bad things happen all over the word.
Amputees do have there prayers answered, there is prosodic devices out there.
They look and feel real and most of the newer ones can do just about everything that a real hand or leg can do.
So in some ways that is an answer even though it is not the real thing...
2006-06-19 06:15:51 · answer #4 · answered by River Walker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because God's answer to the prayer must have been no. You get what God knows is best for you. Maybe the amputee is to build character from the experience. Maybe the amputee is put in the position because down the road, he/she will be able to help someone else with the same or similar experience. As God told Paul, "My grace is sufficient for you"
2006-06-19 06:11:31 · answer #5 · answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God would never had let that person lose the limb if it was something that he would have to restore in the first place. The best thing is to ask God why he has given you this trial and how you can better learn to serve his will because of it.
2006-06-19 06:12:49 · answer #6 · answered by saintrose 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, for starters it is impossible (unless God does something) to grow back or get a new limb. Recently God hasn't done any such things, so I highly doubt anybody with amputated limbs will get new ones just by praying.
2006-06-19 06:08:10 · answer #7 · answered by werdsoccer11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It is done...as you believe." --The Christ.
No one as far as I know, believes strongly enough to grow a limb. But there may be masters of ancient Eastern teachings who can, or at least have come close...it is belief, do you see? If the belief is not strong, it will not happen.
The Christ said we could say to a mountain, "Get up, and move", and it would get up and move. But even though I am convinced that he was speaking literally, I do not have enough belief to make a mountain move.
Rather than deny God because I can't move a mountain, I just realize that it has to do with levels of belief. Everything in physical reality is about belief.
2006-06-19 10:53:03 · answer #8 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
indeed. If he remove cancer or MS he can restore limbs. I'll remember this next time I am discussing faith healing etc. I was at a festival at the weekend and positioned not from from the first aid/paramedic ambulance was a christian tent offering free prayers for anyone with medical problems......so why on Earth did paramedics bother turning up i wondered
2006-06-19 06:12:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Christ said about that mountain was not that it was conditional on if you believed enough, but that if you had faith the size of a mustard seed, the mountain would obey your command to move... and that's what I've been thinking the whole time I've been reading these answers... surely if you can move a mountain with a tiny bit of faith (aka belief), you should be able to regrow a limb. Excellent question.
2006-06-20 04:21:31 · answer #10 · answered by Snark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋