Is there not ONE amputee worthy of God's favor when he asks for a miracle or prays for healing?

Question

Are there ANY recorded cases, even rumored, of limbs being restored or destroyed organs spontaneously regenerating by divine intercession?

Even if we concede that your god doesn't perform on command, there are thousands of people who claim that divine intervention healed them. Why aren't ANY of them amputees? Why would God only pick maladies that are subject to spontaneous remission, or misdiagnosis -- in other words, conditions that might have gone away on their own, anyway?

And the ear bit doesn't prove anything -- the bible can't be used to prove its own veracity, and there are too many proven instances of tampering and outright fabrication for it to be considered a reliable source of information on ANYthing. Besides -- God's supposed to be changeless and eternal, right? Why don't we witness the same frequency and type of miracles that are described from days of yore?

Answer 1

Of course not. When asked that question, Christians simply say that God doesn't work that way, or they'll get their missing limbs back when/if they go to heaven. But Jesus clearly said, "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." (Matthew 21:22) WHATEVER you ask for means that you can literally ask for anything at all, and you will receive it if you believe it. He didn't say you would receive SOME things or MOST things, but ANYTHING, and that would include missing limbs, hearing, sight, etc. Contrary to what a previous poster just said, apparently you can use God as vending machine for miracles.

Some Christians say that miracle don't happen because people don't believe enough. But Jesus said you only need faith as big as a mustard seed to be able to do great things (Matt. 17:20). Surely, anybody has that much faith. The fact that Christians believe, on faith, that a dead man came back to life and floated up to the sky to live in heaven, proves that they have the required amount of faith to "move mountains." So why aren't they healed when they pray? Jesus said they will receive ANYTHING in prayer, yet when they pray, they receive nothing. No healings, no dead child raised to life, no miracles of sight and hearing returned (except through surgery), no missing limbs restored.

What am I to conclude from this? Did Jesus lie? Did he say one thing and mean something else? Or is the Bible just a load of hogwash from beginning to end? Whatever the case, if we read that XYZ will happen when we pray, and it doesn't, then that should make people wonder if anything else in the Bible can be trusted.

Answer 2

Yes there are many. During the Azuza Street revival in 1906 God's Shekinah Glory frequently appeared for three years and many extraordinary healings and miracles took place. One man had an arm grow out within minutes. There are books written documenting this. There might even be a web site such as azuzastreet.com or something where you can read about this. The glory cloud was visible to the naked eye just as it was to the Israelites in the desert in Moses' time. But there is more. A prophecy went forth that in a little over a hundred years this Shekinah glory would return globally. Are you ready? Salvation is a great miracle also and the Shekinah glory always results in many people gaining salvation. The bible says the angels rejoice in heaven over the repentance of one sinner.

Answer 3

well step one would require amputees to pray for their limbs to grow back and honestly want it. The majority of amputees don't seriously pray for their limbs to pop back. I know a lot of amputees having grown up as one. And this annoying question comes up on amputee support forums from time to time. In my experience not too many seem to seriously want them to grow back. You say that plenty of us do but I have yet to know a single one. And as I said in other posts of this question, it takes enough time to learn how to live with out a limb. And it would take just as long if not longer to relearn life with a new regrown limb. I've relearned how to walk more than enough times for this life time I don't need to do it again. I don't like the phrase " healing amputees" There is nothing wrong with being an amputee. Many amputees are healthy normal people they're not suffering as this question suggests. The problems are mostly society problems not health issues. My parents prayed that I would loose my leg. after all it's either loose a leg or let the bone cancer kill your youngster. I do consider myself spiritual. I do believe in God but I have never felt ignored by him. Yeah some days are hard but show me someone who doesn't have bad days. God has nothing against me or any other amputee for that matter. That's like suggesting God has something against people who wear glasses. Why should God sprout a new leg from my stump when I'm getting along pretty well with out. I believe things happen for a reason and I would not have had the experiences that made me the person I am today if I had my two leg. My friends joke that I'm a walking social experiment because when I'm wearing shorts or have to go legless we always run into the funniest situations. If God Gave me my leg back I would loose those moments. not to mention I wouldn't be able to open bottles with my prosthetic knee. You could easily turn silly hypothetical questions like these around and ask why God doesn't make everyone an amputee? Amputees can have computerized or electronic limbs which in this gadget driven world bring us closer to technology than traditional boring flesh and bone. Prosthetics are advancing rapidly in the next decade or two there could easily be limb components on the market that have more function than bone and muscle. Last year in the Olympics there was a debate on prosthetics and if they gave unfair advantage over able bodied runners. sure leg amputees use more energy than people with two legs. but we get better parking. Prosthetic limbs can be laminated with any fabric of the persons choosing. this brings body art to a whole new level. and your Dad doesn't flip out at you when your 12 and want your leg covered with whales and dolphins. But try to ask about a tattoo and that's a different story. The fewer limbs you have the less chances for stubbing your toe, stepping on glass, burning your hand. hitting your thumb with a nail and all those other annoying painful experiences people with all their hands and feet have. If you want to loose weight just pop off a limb and you drop 5-10 pounds easily. Amputees can get into smaller places . and if they have a bit of an imagination can win virtually any Halloween competition.

Answer 4

Good Question.

Reading the bible seems like an adequate answer. The Christ did this in one ocasion. These so-called healers aren't the same biblical healers in the scriptures. The bible only speaks of that one ocasion! And for one time only...people need to keep focus on the Message of Christ...because when has a healer raised the dead..the apostle paul rose someone from the dead..we cannot compare...my mother explained why miracles in these day's or after the death of John was going to be absent...and Miracles weren't done all the time....Again reading the times God preformed miracles should be enough evidence that he didnt do it all the time....it was rare!...

Answer 5

Just as there are many ways to die, can there not be many ways to heal? I know that is not what you are talking about, but, if God heals the soul to the point that the man/women can take what some see as a limitation and turn it into something wonderful, is that not healing? Seriously?

Please look at this. if it don't link I am sorry, I would really like for you to see, that God does restore broken people.

Answer 6

Of course not, God doesn't work that way. He doesn't care about the physical world unless man has already discovered a way to do whatever it is that you're asking without him. So far, man has not been able to regenerate lost limbs, so God doesn't fix those. When man figures out how to regenerate lost limbs, God will start replacing them all the time (with the proper medical professional intervention, of course).

Of course, people who view the world through the lense of a set of holy books will say that it has been done before (in the book, of course) and today's people don't deserve the same healing that was bestowed upon the unworthy people who received such healings in their holy book. Apparenlty, all have fallen short, but those of us alive today are far too short to get the same healing given freely in the holy book. We're just bad, no matter how good we try to be or how much faith we have. Kinda makes you wonder if this particular god even cares enough to listen to us (either that, or he died and no one told us, assuming he ever existed at all).

Answer 7

Maybe amputees just need to pray that evolution is correct. Project ENCODE is a consortium of molecular geneticists looking into the 98+% of the human genome which is junk DNA (not involved in protein assemblage). It appears that much of our DNA is actually a landscape of deactivated genes from our ancestors. For instance, the Mexican Salamander (so far the only amphibian to have its genome sequenced) can re-grow severed limbs. And the genes that control the proteins that regrow severed limbs are still present in human junk DNA, in deactivated form, thanks to the fact that human ancestors from 335 million years ago were amphibians. It will take a lot more research to determine just how these genes function and how they can be reactivated in humans, but some day it may well be possible to medically stimulate the regrowth of human amputated limbs through gene therapy, thanks to our evolutionary heritage.

Answer 8

If I ever lost a limb I'd immediatley put it in milk on the off chance they could re-attach it.

I don't think we can ask for God's help on this one, He's got his hand's full already upholding world peace and making sure not a single person ever goes hungry.

Answer 9

I have not heard of one. However, I do believe that if God wanted to He would. A limb is not necessary for life. Who is to say that a believer who lost a limb doesn't find being blessed in other ways? It's not our body that matters but the state of our "heart".

Answer 10

It's always hearsay. Never in person. Breaks my heart for our veterans. There are so many coming home with missing limbs. The one hope in the back of their minds at least, is a miracle from god. Like I said, it breaks my heart. It's cruel to teach a god that heals and no one gets healed. Isn't that false advertisement?