How many, including myself have been STUMPED by the "God not healing amputees" question?

Answer 1

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "Quite a few."

Answer 2

I'm not. God could do this with no problem but if God healed and made the amputated body part regrow, why would people want such miracles to stop there? We'd eventually be wanting (or demanding) that God restore our pulled teeth, strengthen our eye sight so we don't have to wear glasses/contact lens, lose more weight, cure for the common cold, etc. etc. It would never stop. We'd end up bossing God around wanting Him to do any and everything we please. The amputated limb will be restored. It will be restored in Heaven and in Heaven it will last forever. We will be without need of any healing there. God gave the best gift ever in giving us redemption from sin. It is up to us to live a life that shows gratitude, have faith, and a desire to go to Heaven. PS- A person could well ask, why did God give him/her all the thousands of good things they DO have? Why did God offer them eternal life? If a person is going to complain about God they should give thanks too. It works both ways.

Answer 3

It wasn't simply an accident that these people became amputees. It was all part of a divine plan. God intended them to learn something or be able to reach a certain audience because of their terrible accident. Therefore, since it was in his plan for them from the very beginning, he's not going to magically heal them. Its all part of the grand design.

I know, I know ... you're all going to say that its pretty horrible to have a grand design that involves forcing people to live without limbs. I've questioned it myself, also. Even though I'm fortunate enough to have all of my limbs, I've been through very painful stuff in my life ... and I've learned enough to accept that it was, in fact, grand design. Because I've suffered the way that I have, now I am blessed beyond words.

So, instead of asking "Why won't God heal them?", try asking "What's God's plan for them?"

Answer 4

What was the question?

God didn't say anywhere that we would be immune from suffering. Jesus told us explicitly that we would suffer. God uses but doesn't cause suffering to give us an opportunity to look to Him for help in that suffering. Jesus came to Earth and suffered in unbelievable ways, yet He said that suffering would be part of our world....

Was that the question?

Answer 5

Good question.
So many people are waiting for God to finish his "amputee healing Easter seminar".

Answer 6

In our weakness, His strength is shown. He uses our weakness so that we may keep Him close to us. He is always there, and we need to be reminded of that. God is all powerful and all knowing. We can do nothing without Him!

Answer 7

God makes Retard, Blind, Mute and Deaf babies.

What's you're point.

Do YOU love them less!

Answer 8

Hahahaha! chancelikely, "Going out on a limb"! Beautiful! You have my praise for that one.

Answer 9

One needs to understand why God allows suffering. God allows suffering in the world for many reasons.

First suffering can be a test of faith such as described in

1Pe 1:7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Second, suffering can be a sanctifying experience. Joseph saw how an apparent evil towards him was meant for a greater good by God:

Gen 50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

Third, suffering could be a chastisement as the result of sin in a person’s life. Chastisement does not mean complete and total rejection by God, only that our souls may be cleansed from the malady of sin. Paul spoke of this chastisement:

1Co 11:29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
1Co 11:30 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.
1Co 11:31 But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
1Co 11:32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

Yet, not all illnesses or sickness is the result of sin. Christ clearly said as much:

Joh 9:1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
Joh 9:2 And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
Joh 9:3 Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Jesus did not imply that the man or his parents had not sinned. He meant that the man’s blindness was not a direct result of sin in their lives. God had allowed this man to be born blind in order that the man might become a means of displaying the mighty works of God. Before the man was born, the Lord Jesus knew He would give sight to those blind eyes.

Fourth, suffering can sometimes be considered a means by which we display the sympathy of Christ in a practical manner, thus proving our faith through works. The Apostle Paul notes:

Col 1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

The afflictions endured by Paul in his flesh were for the sake of Christ's body, namely, the church. The sufferings of non-believing people are, in one sense, purposeless. There is no high dignity attached to these sufferings. They are only a foretaste of the torment of hell to be endured forever. But the suffering of the believer is not the same. When believers suffer for Christ, Christ in a very real way suffers with them.

Fifth, suffering can be a means by which we are tempered (strengthened) for the eventualities to come. Christ, when speaking to Peter of his eventual death stated:

Joh 21:18 Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.

Like the old saying, “what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger”, suffering can build us up so that we are better prepared for the future and its travails.

Sixth, suffering can be used as a witness to others of God’s grace. Our attitude towards an illness, accident, etc. and our reception of the same speak volumes when our spoken testimony is rejected.

Seventh, suffering is sometimes a means of weaning us from the things of this world to cause us to draw nearer to God. Suffering should be a means of educating us to the prospect of heaven. This earthly world is not the home of the believer. We are pilgrims and strangers whose citizenship is in another place. Our minds should be focused on things invisible and not in the temporal things of this life.

We must remember that with the fall of mankind in Eden sin entered the world, corrupting earth and all its inhabitants. Thus we have sin directly causing suffering when sinful people commit sinful acts. We have sin causing suffering indirectly by the deteriorating earth and all its natural disasters.

Some people argue that since God made everything, He made evil too. But an omnipotent God could not have created a morally free creature incapable of choosing evil. That does not mean God made evil. Yes, God is the author of everything in the created universe.

But evil is not a thing or a substance; it is a privation or lack in things (blindness is lack of sight, pain is lack of health, hate or murder is lack of love). Therefore God did not create evil.

Christ told us that we would suffer in this world:
Joh 16:33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.

But why doesn’t God just stop evil actions that cause innocent people to suffer?

Why doesn’t God intervene to stop evil if He is all-loving and all-powerful? Why doesn’t He stop the drunk driver’s car that is going to crash into a bus? Why doesn’t He deflect the murderer’s bullets? The person asking doesn’t really want God to stop all their evil actions. They don’t want to be invisibly gagged every time they’re about to say something hurtful; they don’t want to stub their toe when they try to kick the dog. They just think it would be good if God stopped certain evil acts or just the evil acts of others. But that would make life impossible. There would be no freedoms, no regularity and no personal responsibility.

Having said that, never forget that God is not indifferent to our sufferings. God restrains sin and sinners so that we can appreciate mercy and grace in light of sin.

Answer 10

voter apathy, teen apathy...

God apathy?