Why won God heal amputees?
It’s relatively simple. The Bible is a falsification. I’m not saying that God doesn’t exist (I don’t have the answer to that question). Let’s analyze something. If God has a plan for us, what difference does it make if we do anything differently in our lives? God’s plan is apparently absolute, and we can’t change it. If that’s the case, and heaven forbid that given this plan we still have free will (which is contradictory, but I’ll entertain the thought), if God’s plan is for me to live to be 97 and die a peaceful death, I could go out and murder five thousand people, without a consequence of being put to death. By anybody. Let’s pretend that my killing spree happens in Texas. After all, I have the free will to travel to Texas, and the free will to murder people. Given the fact that I have murdered 5,000 people, I would surely be put to death by the great state of Texas. Granted, I would probably be on death row for a while, but if I did this when I was 18, it certainly wouldn’t be unt
Some use this question in an attempt to “disprove” the existence of God. In fact, there is a popular anti-Christian website dedicated to the “Why won’t God heal amputees?” argument: http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com. If God is all-powerful and if Jesus promised to do anything we ask (or so the reasoning goes), then why won’t God ever heal amputees when we pray for them? Why does God heal victims of cancer and diabetes, for example, yet He never causes an amputated limb to be regenerated? The fact that an amputee stays an amputee is “proof” to some that God does not exist, that prayer is useless, that so-called healings are coincidence, and that religion is a myth. The above argument is usually presented in a thoughtful, well-reasoned way, with a liberal sprinkling of Scripture to make it seem all the more legitimate. However, it is an argument based on a wrong view of God and a misrepresentation of Scripture. The line of reasoning employed in the “why won’t God heal amputees” argum
