Is the reason why nobody has grown back a limb...?

Question

because they don't believe it can happen?

I know it hasn't happened, I'm saying is the reason why it hasn't happened because nobody thinks it CAN happen

Answer 1

Nah, even babies with no formed beliefs haven't grown back limbs.

Answer 2

That's my understanding. On a larger scale than one on one though, there is a group consciousness that enters in here, the belief in disease and suffering. But this is a huge debatable issue for many. To me it is an individual internal knowing, private for each person. It saddens me that we keep 'missing the mark' and 'misunderstanding' when we have all the tools and abilities to dig deeper spiritually.

Some will say that it's just God's will. I disagree with that strongly. But it's just my opinion. I do believe that there is a greater good in all things and I have to be willing to wait and watch and not decide against God just because it doesn't appear 'logical' here in this dimension. God allows circumstances to occur, and sometimes from what I deem horrible circumstances, much good has come (like people drawing closer together and experiencing the power of unconditional love, and maybe that brings others who are watching how we experience our circumstances closer to the heart of God, etc.). I'm a living breathing example of what I talk about. I gave up long ago being stuck in the why of it all. I got nowhere but upset and confused.
I do know of people who have had regeneration of tissue bone and nerve, which continues to set the medical community back on its heels. And if a lizard or starfish can regrow limbs and tails, then we, the delight and preferred by God can do so too, but it takes more study and understanding and acceptance until it happens. Jesus teaches demonstration, and shows us resurrection. I study on this alot. I know, lots of thumbs my way. So be it. This is just my 2pt answer to the Q.
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Thanks for asking what many may find to be a trivial or unimportant Q. I don't find it so. It's easy just to put the question off with a straight line logical response on either side of the fence. But if people think about it a bit it's a very deep Q which goes to the heart of many people either coming closer or moving farther from God in their thoughts and hearts. Lean not on thy own understanding...

Answer 3

I just figure God made Starfish, Lizards, and probably other creatures with regeneration properties such as that. It is not the way he made humans. A doner limb is a possibility, but why would anyone compromise their immune system by taking all the anti rejection drugs required for such a procedure that is not for a life threatening loss of a limb.
My prosthesis works quite well, think I'll stick with it.

Answer 4

The reason that people don't grow back limbs is the same reason they need kidney transplants, liver transplants, and heart transplants. There is no miracle in medicine. There is occasional spontaneous cure or improvement of certain conditions, but that is more likely owing to immune responses and other biological quirks.

My religious sister-in-law has a condition that leads to her spleen creating a potentially fatal blood disorder. Surgeons removed her spleen to save her life. Oddly enough, her spleen, which was threatening to kill her, DID grow back several years later. Somehow I don't think you can attribute that to a divine miracle, but more to a quirk in her biology. So they had to remove it a second time.

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Answer 5

The human liver can regenerate when it is damaged. Is this because people believe it can? Human skin can regenerate when it is cut. Is this because the wounded person believes it will heal?

Lizards and starfish can regerenate lost limb tissue. But I would not suggest that this is because these intellectually-limited creatures believe they can.

Regeneration of tissue (or inability to do so) is not something willed by the mind but is a characteristic of the body, based on whether natural selection provided a mechanism for regeneration.

The larger religious issue touches on whether we must accept the limitations of our human bodies, or if wishing/believing can transcend those limits. This is especially apt at Christmastime, when we recall how the Deity incarnated himself as a child -- prone to cold, hunger and disease -- fully accepting our human limitations. As Paul wrote in his letter to the Phillippians, of Christ, "Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; 5 and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross."

We followers of Christ should not be in the business of seeking equality with God either, whether it be to regenerate limbs or hoping for any other self-serving miracle.

Answer 6

no... it doesn't happen because the medicine has not developed a way to do it yet.
Jesus just said "ask and you shall receive" and "whatever you ask in my name I will do it". I don't think he said you had to believe it could happen...obviously you would believe it would happen otherwise you wouldn't waste your time asking for it.
There's a whole website devoted to this anyway

Answer 7

A starfish or a shrimp can grow back a limb. God has nothing to do with this.

Answer 8

LOL. Excellent question. It is the only way to verify that healing miracles occur. Yet it is the only healing that has never occured. And don't think for a second that an amputee hasn't beleived with all his/her might that it might happen. hmmmmmm....

Answer 9

I saw on Wired Science last week that they are doing it, using a pig bladder "matrix" to give the cells a scaffolding to build on. It was pretty fascinating.

I think that we have evolved very useful brains that can figure out almost anything that we need/want to.

Answer 10

It's cause they haven't prayed hard enough. Our amputee neighbor, Mr. Gibby, could have gotten a new leg from Jesus, but his prayers were not fervent.