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Why does god discriminate against amputees?
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Runt
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There's a website floating around somewhere on the Internet about this topic. No matter how much we pray, no matter how fervently we pray, no matter how saintly the person who prays may be, God never has and most likely never will restore an amputee's limb. Never.
So much for the efficacy of prayer...
There's a website floating around somewhere on the Internet about this topic. No matter how much we pray, no matter how fervently we pray, no matter how saintly the person who prays may be, God never has and most likely never will restore an amputee's limb. Never.
So much for the efficacy of prayer...
Didn't we do this already with the "why does God not grow amputees limbs back" thing?
God is you. God is me. God *is* the amputee. The question you should be asking is, "why doesn't the God-amputee grow his own limbs back?" And the answer is simple: he doesn't believe that he can (just like you, I suspect).
God is you. God is me. God *is* the amputee. The question you should be asking is, "why doesn't the God-amputee grow his own limbs back?" And the answer is simple: he doesn't believe that he can (just like you, I suspect).
What's wrong with being amputee? (I dare you say anything.)
The question that I want to ask:
"Is the God-worm a lot more powerful than the God-man?" I'm going to ponder that one for awhile.....
Frubals for that.
Lindsey-Loo
Steel Magnolia
If the issue here is "Why doesn't God answer people's prayers to heal amputees?", you might find this link helpful.
I thought this was going to be a reference to the Old Testament prohibition on someone with a "defect" approaching the altar.
Jaymes
The cake is a lie
I take it you've never tried to tell an amputee they're just not trying/believing hard enough?
There is no "trying" that could ever be "hard enough". It's the nature of the beast (belief/ego/"I am").
That doesn't really answer the question of why God apparently heals (according to the Bible) blindness, muteness (IIRC), mental illness/demonic posession, leprosy, lameness, palsy (IIRC), actual death, etc., etc., but never, either in the Bible or in all of recorded history, re-grows a limb. Ever.
Your article compared God's rejection of some requests to a parent saying "no" to things that a child wanted, but were harmful.
If having four working limbs is the equivalent of having marshmallows for dinner, maybe we should all be sharpening our hacksaws, no?
FerventGodSeeker
Believer
I think it's different for different people. Perhaps my having no legs will teach me something that you having no legs will not teach you. This is just a more extreme example of any number of things you could insert in place of a missing limb: Why didn't God give me more money? Why didn't God make me born into a better family? Why didn't God make me popular? Why didn't God make me athletic? Why didn't God make me smart? etc etc etc It's based on a faulty premise that, since life isn't perfect, it must be God's fault and you should blame Him.That doesn't really answer the question of why God apparently heals (according to the Bible) blindness, muteness (IIRC), mental illness/demonic posession, leprosy, lameness, palsy (IIRC), actual death, etc., etc., but never, either in the Bible or in all of recorded history, re-grows a limb. Ever.
Your article compared God's rejection of some requests to a parent saying "no" to things that a child wanted, but were harmful.
If having four working limbs is the equivalent of having marshmallows for dinner, maybe we should all be sharpening our hacksaws, no?
No, it's based on the premise that God seems to be willing to heal all sorts of things, but makes an exception for amputees. What is it about amputation that would explain this?
FerventGodSeeker
Believer
Off the top of my head I do recall that Jesus restored someone's shriveled arm. I don't know why it would be necessary for every known disease or injury to be healed in the Bible, though...?
If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. [Matthew 21:21]
If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. [John 14:14]
Ask, and it will be given you. [Matthew 7:7]
Nothing will be impossible to you. [Matthew 17:20]
Believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. [Mark 11:24]
Liar, Liar. Pants on fire.
Wait. Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions here. I'm sure there must be some rational explanation for the lack of action on the part of our cosmic zombie friend. Maybe he just doesn't "love" amputees. Or maybe he doesn't intervene with amputees because it's not his will. Or maybe his answer to their prayers is and always will be "no". Or maybe the issue is that he wants to stay hidden and restoring an amputated limb would just be too obvious. Or maybe he has a higher purpose for amputees because everyone's life serves the cosmic zombie in different ways. Or maybe he does answer prayers by inspiring scientists and engineers to create artificial limbs. Or maybe our cosmic zombie friend will answer the prayer, just not now, in this life. It may even be the case that we just have no way of understanding the way of the cosmic zombie and we just need to be content with that fact. Or maybe, just maybe this "loving" cosmic zombie doesn't exist in the first place and all amputees are on their own just like everyone else.
If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. [John 14:14]
Ask, and it will be given you. [Matthew 7:7]
Nothing will be impossible to you. [Matthew 17:20]
Believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. [Mark 11:24]
Liar, Liar. Pants on fire.
Wait. Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions here. I'm sure there must be some rational explanation for the lack of action on the part of our cosmic zombie friend. Maybe he just doesn't "love" amputees. Or maybe he doesn't intervene with amputees because it's not his will. Or maybe his answer to their prayers is and always will be "no". Or maybe the issue is that he wants to stay hidden and restoring an amputated limb would just be too obvious. Or maybe he has a higher purpose for amputees because everyone's life serves the cosmic zombie in different ways. Or maybe he does answer prayers by inspiring scientists and engineers to create artificial limbs. Or maybe our cosmic zombie friend will answer the prayer, just not now, in this life. It may even be the case that we just have no way of understanding the way of the cosmic zombie and we just need to be content with that fact. Or maybe, just maybe this "loving" cosmic zombie doesn't exist in the first place and all amputees are on their own just like everyone else.