People claim God healed them of all kinds of things--cancer, MS, anorexia, lots of stuff. But God just does not seem to be able to pull off restoring an amputated limb. Why is that???
2007-08-10 12:27:02 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Two possible options:
1. God is not omnipotent.
2. God does not exist.
2007-08-10 12:31:33 · answer #1 · answered by qxzqxzqxz 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Sometimes our handicaps we need; but just don't know it.
I'm epileptic. I had light spells to start, then in 1980 my boss tried to murder me with a hammer. They got a lot worse. And I spent decades praying to God to take them away. Then both of my sons were kidnapped; that was in 1999. Instead of feeling the sever stress that others would have felt or I would have if I was not epileptic; I did not. I cried, felt less pain than before they were kidnapped. When ever the stress was on a spell came and the stress was gone. Then one time six weeks went by without a spell coming. The pain got exsesivly painfull and I know knew how those that were not epiliptic would be feeling. My handcap is a grace/gift from God.
We may not know it but we all could have our handicaps for a reason. So we could help another (as I'm trying to do here), to protect us, to prevent us from going/getting into worse from somthing else that we would have done before but can't get there to become worse now; Heaven only knows.
So try to look at your handicap as a gift from God, some kind of protection. Be more possitive. At least science has limbs to put on people that are amputies so they can get around a lot better than they use to.
(Will I ever see my sons again? Heaven only knows, for I most surely don't. )
2007-08-10 12:51:42 · answer #2 · answered by geessewereabove 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have have been given 2 problems right here: First, you're assuming that the only thank you to restoration an amputation is for the spontaneous regeneration of a limb. Many amputees have their prayers responded with prosthetic contraptions. 2nd, you're assuming that God ought to undo issues that he's desperate are no longer reversible. shall we purely besides ask why God would not regenerate the hands of apes, or why he would not regrow the heads of the decapitated, or why he would not advance people who're ineffective, or heal a pig who's in a sausage grinder. it somewhat is a stupid question, somewhat. some issues are everlasting. they do no longer look to be reversible by using any volume of prayer, and that they are additionally no longer reversible by way of our appropriate use of technological expertise. yet we hear you (and the "amputees" guy) complaining that failure to heal amputees is evidence that God would not exist, and yet no longer pointing out that scientific technological expertise failing to heal amputees is a shortcoming of scientific technological expertise.
2016-10-09 23:16:25 · answer #3 · answered by niehoff 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I must say, why do put more faith in the the stories of 'people' then in the source of your being? The answer to your question is right there in your own heart\soul. It is up to you alone to seek it. That, my friend is why you exist...to find out for yourself what it this life you are experiencing is all about.
You did, of course ask sincerely, so I answer in the same spirit. God has no reason to toy with a perfect creation...everything unfolds as it is meant to be. The personal challenge is to see past our the fleeting desires and limited definitions of perfection. Your 'body' is impermanent for a reason...no more or less then a tree or a mountain....Please dwell on these thoughts for a while. Blessings....
2007-08-10 14:41:22 · answer #4 · answered by Stevie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only reason I can come up with is that he has to remain hidden somehow, and curing amputees would be to obvious.I think he wants us to have a choice wether to believe in him or not. If i saw a person missing a limb one day and not the next, you better believe I would believe,,, but would it really be my choice then, casue how could i not after witnessing something like that.
2007-08-10 12:40:30 · answer #5 · answered by Jessie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe there is a purpose for your being an ampute. maybe you will be healed in time when the time is right and you have lessons to learn first. or maybe you will not be healed of this but will learn from it. ask god. communicate with him/ ask what his will for your life is and work on having a relationship with him. he will help you / open doors and fulful everything you could want. give him an opportunity.
2007-08-10 12:44:05 · answer #6 · answered by Mildred S 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not christian but I can tell you how I would answer this question. I would tell you that the amputees did not have enough faith. As absurd as it sounds, theists have an answer for everything. Why and how do you ask? Simple, since their religion is not grounded in reality they can change it as they see fit. Its like an imaginary Friend that always agrees with you, always is your friend and will never turn on you. So why bother asking these types of questions here, it will get you nowhere
2007-08-10 12:37:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
God apparently doesn't heal people...'cause from what I heard from one Christian, people think God is a genie, that people ask for healing, or strength, or some help for something that they REALLY need...but God apparently doesn't work that way because people need to get stronger or something...so for a Theist answer...I'm going with that answer...to one, educate people on what some CHristians think...and two, just because my other answer (God doesn't exist, it's all in the persons mind) REALLY wouldn't be accepted by people...but that's another thing...Mind-over-matter DOES work.
2007-08-10 12:33:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I believe when God heals it is not always for the person that is asking. I think that heals things you can't see or will not understand unless you are part of the healing process.
My question to you does seeing person see or does the blind man see? I guess the answer lies in what you are looking for.
2007-08-10 12:36:42 · answer #9 · answered by GCS57 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Maybe you're too consumed by the physical.
We are not our bodies.
Maybe G-d put you here to be kind and show His love to those who have lost limbs?
But don't be so concentrated on the outward body.
2007-08-10 12:42:23 · answer #10 · answered by Sumie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
thats beyond the physical laws that god set up but they are getting close to regrowing parts of the body now. i think they can grow ears and teeth.god can give u a bitchin metal arm though.sorry no lazers or rockets yet.
2007-08-10 12:44:01 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋