There is NEVER a decent answer. All healings are equal: if cancer can be cured, so can a mastectomy. If sight can be restored, so can an amputated leg. So whats the problem? Is it that the person doesn't need those body parts, or is it simply that it is impossible, because these things can't resolve themselves? Cancer can go into remission, various visual problems can be resolved, but more often they are faked, or not medically diagnosed to begin with.
Whatever answers anyone comes up with, I'll bet my life savings that science will clone and transplant a limb before one gets miracled back. My money is safe.
2007-09-28 16:00:48 · 22 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Joshua: actually, I did just that.
2007-09-28 16:09:29 · update #1
Julia: neither do blindness, deafness, or inability to walk........ but these are what are commonly "healed" on the stage shows run by money grubbers, I mean faith healers, because they can be faked.
2007-09-28 16:11:25 · update #2
Basically, your all saying that your god isn't strong enough, or you don't have enough faith in your combined religion to get it done, right?
2007-09-28 16:13:56 · update #3
karate: you're almost right about 1 thing: I can't prove there is no god. I can simply say that there is absolutely ZERO evidence that any god exists to begin with, much less the neurotic minor king persona portrayed in the Bible. In fact, all the supposed evidence for this particur deities existence, actually combined to prove how ludicrous the character really is.
2007-09-28 16:46:16 · update #4
Albert Einstein only had an IQ of 189, which means he probably had you beat. Not everyone with an exceptional IQ has the opportunities he had, and he was seriously limited on many simple skills. If I were to choose a known scientist to give credence to an idea that otherwise has no evidence, I'd choose Dr. William Lipscomb. He is a well rounded, intelligent man who happens to be agnostic, due at least in part to the total lack of evidence. Have a nice day.
2007-09-29 07:23:34 · update #5
Good points. Science has saved millions of people via antibiotics alone. Before antibiotics were developed people routinely died of ear infects, burns and cuts despite fervent prayer by the victim and all their relatives. Now it is so rare it's almost unheard of. Indeed, science will soon be growing new limbs to restore amputations and birth deformities as we are curing deafness, blindness and hundreds of other ailments. Man's power to cure through science is truly amazing and validates humanism over religion.
2007-09-28 16:25:03 · answer #1 · answered by Michael da Man 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dear Enigma:
So, you've caught us all. You have proven that their are no miracles and I suppose by association you might also like to claim that their is no God. People can make whatever connections they like. It doesn't make it so. If a person wants to believe that God restored their sight, they can do that. It doesn't make it so. It's like anything else in religion: It's what you believe. But, does this mean their is no God? You can't say that either. I won't claim to know why a merciful God would cure one person's cancer and not anothers lost limb. I don't know in either case if either is true. But, it still won't eliminate God. You are basing your argument on the claims of others who you don't believe. Listen to that again. You are basing your argument on the claims of others you don't believe. Won't work, will it? You can no more disprove God than I can prove him. I say he exists and you say he doesn't. Nothing either one of us will write is likely ever to change the other. But, I will leave you with this. If I'm wrong, at the end of my life I will never know it. If you are wrong, God only knows what that will mean. Still, I'd rather be in my position than yours. Your position requires tremendous FAITH!.. Why would anyone want to put that much faith into an argument that at best is of no benefit and at worst is the damnation of his soul. Never have understood that one.
Proof? No, there is no proof, just as there is no proof there isn't a God. However, a man by the name of Albert Einstein who is smarter than either of us believed in God. To paraphrase him: something this intricate and complex is no accident.
2007-09-28 23:31:53 · answer #2 · answered by karate 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I believe a Roman soldier had his ear cut off when they went to take Jesus and he put it back on the soldier. But, you would probably say that he just held it on and it reconnected all by itself.
The truth is simple. Jesus did not do miracles for party tricks. Each miracle backed up Jesus authority and truths to what he said and who he claimed to be. It is like an exclamation point. Re read the accounts for yourself. Jesus forgave and people grumbled so he said "which is easier...!"
Second, I could lamely point to places in the Bible where it says in essence he did many more things than are written here and say this is where your amputees are hiding. But I will not. I will speculate that perhaps most if not all the amputees figured, just like you, that it was impossible and never dared or dreamed to ask. "You have not because you ask not." I know this does not sound fair but think about it. All logic screams against it today and it was not so different back then.
Finally, not only was this about authority and lack of faith it was about forgivness. Jesus was not here to heal the sick of physical problems but spiritual. We lost our way and was mired in sin. He came to save us from that and along the way he blessed people in ways tha they could dare to dream beyond a stump of a leg or arm. Their amputated heart was healed and more than this a new body awaits us and this one is not going to matter any more.
So, your money is safe and yet you are no better for it.
2007-09-29 07:57:10 · answer #3 · answered by crimthann69 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
My leg grew out 3/4 of an inch and this was medically documented by a Physical Therapist and I was doing a lot of Physical Therapy for my other leg because it had effected my left knee. My legs are now both the same length because while praying for my right leg to be lengthened it was. I no longer have to wear a lift in my shoe. As far as the amputees...I have never asked one so all I can tell you is my own personal experience...Oh and my hearing was also restored after a medical doctor said that I HAD to have tubes and that if I didn't my hearing would be lost completely (50% was already gone in one and the other ear was going)...No tubes but after prayer for my ears my hearing was restored. I did hear Nick V.'s testimony and yes he has prayed that God would heal him, and yes he still has no arms or legs, and yes I do want to see him in Heaven but would his testimony reach the young adults that he is able to reach if he had his limbs? I don't know but God is doing an awesome work through this man with no limbs.
2007-09-28 23:13:26 · answer #4 · answered by cbmultiplechoice 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The same god that poofed the universe into existence, could certainly make limbs miraculously appear. The belief system is rooted in magic but all magic is deception, sleight of hand, illusion etc....
Limbs don't regenerate because they can't. Frankly I don't think they pray for the regrowth of limbs because they know that could never happen. Even they don't have that much faith.
2007-09-29 01:12:50 · answer #5 · answered by Equinoxical ™ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your right, there really never is a decent answer. They insist God answers every prayer. I guess they haven't gotten around to asking for the obvious.
Some of the answers make me realize just how hopeless the situation really is. I didn't know Pascal knew karate, did you? =)
2007-09-29 00:24:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If 'CBMultiplechoice's story is real, I hope some research has been done into it. I bet the Jews (and anyone else 'with the faith of a mustard seed') would like to know why God listened to his prayers...
2007-09-28 23:45:24 · answer #7 · answered by strpenta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know what, sometimes I wonder if you would be better off just asking God (even if you don't believe in Him) than asking us.
Who knows? Maybe because people can survive without a limb due to modern science. Maybe because God is more interested in our hearts than in our bodies....maybe because instead of really seeking God's FACE we are only seeking His hand......and he doesn't give when we decide the the ONLY way we are going to believe in miracles is if someone gets a limb back.
Be honest...if it DID happen, how many minds do you think it would REALLY change? People would call it a hoax....just like they do every other miracle that they see every day. Like birth. And sunrises. And limbs period.
2007-09-28 23:07:33 · answer #8 · answered by lady_phoenix39 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Maybe He just heals what you got. God has His reasons and we dont have all of the answers. There is probably a spiritual lesson hear.When God moves, He moves in His good time. When He answers you, He answers you when you need to hear it. Not when you want to hear it. If He did everything that we expected Him to do, then He wouldn't be God would He?
Perhaps if we did everything that He expected us to do, we would be more knowledgeable and have a closer relationship with fewer questions.
2007-09-28 23:24:10 · answer #9 · answered by guitarrman45 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I know, it's too funny how poor old amputees are always being left out on the miracle front
2007-09-29 08:26:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋