There is an interesting website at:
http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/
It poses this question so I was hoping that maybe some Christians might care to give an explanation. I've heard people say things like "God cured my cancer" when they've been fortunate, due to medical treatment, to fully recover. It's just interesting that nobody has ever mysteriously grown a limb due to prayer so I thought maybe Christians could explain phenomena.
2007-12-01 07:51:08 · 15 answers · asked by clint 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The fundies won't give a real answer to this. It has been asked many times. It causes the fundies to shuck and jive. Their "god" can't heal amputees because "he" does not exist.
Notice the answers you got. "Prove that 'god' has never healed an amputee." "How do you know 'he' has never healed one?" What hilarious nonsense. Are they beyond embarrassment???????
2007-12-01 07:58:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
Why should God heal an amputee or for that matter, any other sickness? What are they going to do with their healing? Continue in sin? Only God knows. Even when Jesus healed there were still those who witnessed it with their own eyes, yet didn't believe in Jesus the Messiah. The idea that God is available to bail us out of every bad situation in life is, well, arrogant. Our intentions are not right.
God looks at the heart of those who ask and receive. Apparently, the motive isn't right in most cases we hear about today. God does heal today. There are many documented cases. Have they changed your or any other skeptics opinion? Nope. That is exactly why you won't see a healing.
Besides that, healing is not important. We all have our aches and pains. Some more so than others. A perfect and care-free life were never promised. It's what you do with what you are given that is most important.
2007-12-01 08:36:28 · answer #2 · answered by JohnFromNC 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For one, Christians will ALWAYS give a justified answer because Christianity has so many gaps for vague answers such as Phoneix's:
"Because God has a special plan for amputees, obviously."
Does that mean God wants them to stay limbless? That is the stupidest thing I've heard all day.
The other arguement is that most "healing" is done by taking things away whereas "healing" amputees is replacing something or rather putting something there. Theoretically if healing was real, this would be much harder due to the fact that it's something you can visually observe.
All in all, this is a weak arguement but Christians will always say one thing or another because of the unexplained gaps in their religion.
2007-12-01 08:22:05 · answer #3 · answered by Dave 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Amphibians have limb regeneration. Because humans have an amphibian ancestor 335 million years ago, we still have deactivated chunks of amphibian genes within our junk DNA. Project ENCODE is seeking to find out how these deactivated genes can be repaired so we can some day use a genetic therapy to regenerate limbs in amputees.
But Rebekah, the consortium of scientists working on project ENCODE get their inspiration from evolutionary theory, not god.
2007-12-01 08:01:58 · answer #4 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. That is, although God's Spirit sustains this Universe God does not interfere or intervene.
The scriptures are a Meta-Physical handbook teaching us 'the re-generation' of our minds.
The body is a picture of the mind, it is each person's 'book of life' - a record of every thought, word and deed.
God is not separate from us - we are: Hu-man Be-ings, that is God's Mind In Activity.
Hu-manity has wandered far from home, that is we through selfishness have become imprisoned in our own ego.
When, we re-generate our minds and discover the Fire of Life within us and establish a state of consciousness where we are able to sustain UNITY with the Divine Spirit, we shall heal the mind and the body will reflect the renewed character of the mind.
Do not be deceived into thinking that 'evangelists' who 'heal' people's sense of taste in a mass rally are 'christians' - if you are seduced into thinking they are, you will get a false idea of Jesus, God and the REAL power available to sincere people.
Our duty is to heal ourselves by overcoming our ego - 'health' really means 'wholeness' and wholeness is the result of attaining UNITY with God.
When we attain to the most powerful aspects of the Spirit, reserved for the pure in heart, then the rivers of the waters of life shall flow through us, and we shall become 'Christian' and do the works that Jesus did.
Until then, we persevere, striving to overcome the limitations of our own ego by working each day to become more and more selfless to make way for the Power of the Spirit to flow through us.
When that day comes (and it is not far off) we shall heal every disease and infirmity.
2007-12-01 08:20:42 · answer #5 · answered by the_metaphysician2001 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because God has a special plan for amputees, obviously.
2007-12-01 07:55:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
God is impartial and will heal those deserving at his due time these works that you describe go to show that really these supposed miracles are really worked by the wicked one (satan the devil) with whom the whole world is lying in his power
2007-12-01 07:56:26 · answer #7 · answered by kriss 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Because he is a cruel bastard. We have the genetic capability to regrow limbs but he "turned it off."
He gave chickens wings, but not the ability to fly even though he KNEW wolves would eat them.
2007-12-01 07:59:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God gave us minds, he already healed amputees, artificially.
2007-12-01 07:55:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
God strengthens the ailing. God inspires the knowledge of healing practices. Prayer could inspire the researcher who discovers a clue to limb regeneration. With God and in His time, all things are possible.
2007-12-01 07:58:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 8⤋