No one has ever answered this question within reason! Can U?

Question

If a person is born deaf, mute and blind, does he/she believe in GOD! (Not even clergy have given me a acceptable reason for their opinions)

I thank (mostly) everyone for thought provoking answers. Now just a few observations. 1. The 2 remaining senses(smell and touch) are physical in nature, limiting subjective thinking. 2. Loving someone or being loved is contingent on either party understanding what that means. You may call it love, but this person has no idea or knowledge of this word. 3. Helen Keller was NOT BORN this way. 4. This question is just to make you think, not change your thinking. And 5. I still don't have a credible answer!

Answer 1

At birth there is no "belief" process. Beliefs are built upon experience and knowledge.
Helen Keller was born deaf,mute and blind and was taught many things about the world through her companion Annie. And yet Helen developed her own religious beliefs that were different than Annie's.
Helen came to accept religious and political beliefs quite different from those of her family and friends. Through John Hitz, Alexander Graham Bell's secretary, she learned of the well-known 18th-century scientist, philosopher, and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg. Helen became a devout Swedenborgian, finding comfort and peace in the beliefs of a man who Annie, an agnostic, "thought was a scientific genius who had descended into madness." Helen was especially attracted to the faith's belief in immortality.
"As [Annie] would . . . confess to a startled biographer, she and the adult Helen had such fundamentally different conceptions of life that they would have loathed one another had they met under ordinary circumstances." Yet they depended on each other until Annie died in 1936, with Helen holding her hand.

Answer 2

A person who is born deaf and blind (mute really doesn't enter into it) may only have a limited knowledge of the world. He still might know that somebody loves him, because he is being cared for and fed when he is hungry. More than that, I don't see how he could know anything in detail.

My question to you is, what does it matter? That person, if he is unable to understand the difference between right and wrong, will not be judged for doing wrong (Romans 7:9-11).
You, on the other hand, appear to have at least one of those senses, based on your communcation here. What then prevents you from obeying?

Answer 3

In this case it probably don't matter. This person already belongs to God. God doesn't make a difference in people. If they were born deaf, mute, and blind then they are as innocent children who can't be held accountable for sins. If this is the case they already belong to God. He will see that they are taken care of. It is not a question of do they believe but more of a question as to how they were treated by people here on earth.

Answer 4

Your question is unanswerable. Let me tell you why. First, you neglect to give complete enough details to answer the question. Such as, the person has a caregiver that is teaching them to communicate or does this person live 100% alone. Honestly, if the person were alone, I imagine they would eventually die so that couldn't work and if someone is teaching them to communicate and taking care of them, I imagine they would believe in God because they would believe that there is an ultimate care giver that gives care to their care giver. Second, there are answers that can't be given purely because it would vary from each blind, deaf, mute. Third, you seek an answer that can't be given with any certainty because it depends totally on the power of God in each person's life.

Answer 5

Helen Keller was not born deaf, mute and blind... but she was by the time she was a toddler. She believed in God.

I think a belief in God stems from a desire to know where we came from... and anyone who was aware of their own existence is capable and likely to question that.

Answer 6

Well this is just like with a baby. You can't know what they come out of the womb believing in as they are not able to communicate it. By the time the person can communicate, their own beliefs are tainted with those of others. However, I don't think it would be fair for anyone to generalize one way or another. These people with these disabilities are not one collective group. They are individuals. What may be true for one person may not be true for the next.

Answer 7

Why would being impaired limit a person's capacity to believe in anything?

People are dealt difficulties every day that range in severity and level of hardship - being blind, deaf or unable to speak could be included in that group. These characteristics don't imply that a person's is less intelligent and unable to grasp concepts.

That said, of course one can believe in God if he/she has a hearing/seeing impairment. Blaming God and being upset/bitter is a different issue altogether and is unrelated to capacity or potential.

Answer 8

If they are born deaf, mute and blind how would we ever know what is going on in their mind?

If we could form some kind of communication with them (touch communication) we could find out.

Answer 9

All "believes" are learnt. If a person is born deaf, mute and blind, he/she won't have a chance to learn what and who "God" is about. God is symboic.

Answer 10

Since there is no link to outer world he does not know any language of the word GOD..... so he may not even know that he is blind, deaf and dumb...
his/her only sensitive part to others is skin....
so he will not think about god