Can God do anything? Could God heal amputees?

Answer 1

I am an amputee and god has never healed me.

Answer 2

Can God? Yes. Will God? Don't count on it. We see several examples of the miraculous occuring in scripture, but you need to remember that the account encompasses thousands of years of history. Miracles are usually conducted to authenticate the message of a messenger. We see from the Bible that Jesus healed the ear of Malchus, which is as close as you are going to get. It was more impressive to create the universe or raise someone from the dead, but if you are an amputee hoping to get a limb back, don't count on it. The only way you will get a limb back is when you are given a new body at the resurrection.

Answer 3

Yep. God can do anything. He can heal amputees. He hasn't yet, but he will. Jesus and his disciples were able to perform miracles, including raising the dead (Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead after he had been dead for 4 days and was beginning to stink!!!) These miracles were foregleams of what God would do in the future when His Kingdom rules (we pray for His Kingdom to come in the model prayer or "the our father" at Matthew 6:9-13).

Answer 4

Why would anyone want to waste their time healing something that is destined shortly to rot and turn to ashes and dust?

Wouldn't God's time be better spent healing a soul or spirit of its terminal disease that is the cause of much anguish and sorrow? Wouldn't the time be better spent healing a soul or spirit of its many infirmities so that it can see and hear the truth? And wouldn't the time be better spent healing a soul or spirit of its lameness so that it can walk with surefootedness along the Path that had long ago been prepared for us?

Answer 5

Jesus performed all manner of miracles and healing. The Bible does not list them all, but here is one that might interest you.

Mathew 12:10-13
10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.

Answer 6

Great question. This is another one of those "divide by zero" questions that leaves monotheists sputtering.

You will oft hear anecdotal examples of sick people getting better when groups, families, or communities get together and pray for them. Sometimes people who have cancer go into remission, or people in comas awaken. Of course, this is never coincidence, or medicine, but the "power of prayer." This power can save dying people, cure horrible diseases, and on rare occasions, even restore the use of limbs or senses, but for some strange reason it never seems to be able to regrow amputated or missing parts.

I wonder why this is. Why would prayer work on certain ailments, but not others? I mean, it never, ever happens, even randomly.

I guess this is one of those "specific mysteries" the devout are taught not to question.

Answer 7

Jesus used to heal lepers all of the time: it was one of the most debilitating and disfiguring diseases of the ancient world. People would lose limbs one at a time. They were so terrible to look at, and the disease so contagious, that lepers lived apart from everyone else and were often reduced to beggars.

The New Testament is full of instances where lepers approached Jesus and he healed them on the spot.

He made men who were blind from birth, see.

He made cripples walk.

He raised lazarus from the dead.

I don't think that an amputee would pose much of a challenge for him.

And we have more evidence that Jesus Christ lived, than we do that Alexander the Great lived. Pretty cool, huh?

Answer 8

Of course He could. How difficult could that be, compared with designing and creating the universe? But God doesn't usually reverse the laws of nature in answer to prayer. Sometimes, but not usually. We live in the natural world, and usually are subject to the laws of nature.

Answer 9

Jesus healed the cut off ear of a centurion in the garden of gethsamene.... Anything is possible of you have faith the size of a mustard seed

Answer 10

He could, yes, but he's very sadistic, remember. He also chooses to give people cancer, not heal it. The same applies with every uncurable disease. He also seems to enjoy drowning all of his creations as well.