How does religion explain birth defects?

[Skipper]

Oh? How has he helped you? Directly I mean, not some woo about how you were feeling sad, prayed, and felt much better, or some relative was dying and you prayed and they got better.

Let's see He has helped me to stop smoking, drug use, profanity, abusing alcohol, gave me much more compassion and a great desire to help others and all this before He led me to a church to be a youth leader. He has helped me through my fathers death which effected me more than I could possibly imagine.He has helped me through the deaths of many close family members and several good friends. He helped me through the death of one of the youth in my youth group and used me to help others through such a terrible event. He helps me to make good decisions, when I listen to Him.

All them things people can and do get through without believing in a god. Sorry to say it, it just so happens that you decided to believe god was looking after you as a coping method to help you deal with the issues you had. God played no part at all, the human mind is a very subjective thing.

For years, 30 to be exact, I have asked God to help me choose a vehicle be it car or truck that would be nearly trouble free and He has. In those 30 years we have only had to purchase four vehicles and none of them has given us much of a problem.

haha. Yea, there are millions of people suffering the world over, some very religious ones, who live their whole lives in poverty amongst sickness and war yet god chooses to ignore their plight and helps you get a good deal on a car. Can you not see how silly you sound?

I've asked Him for protection in our lives and to this day He has, asked Him to get us through illness and He has both physically and with peace of mind.

Why are you getting ill in the first place if god was only going to cure you anyway? I obviously believe in no gods yet when I was admitted to hospital for a week I was treated by the doctors and nurses and made a full recovery, by attributing recovery to some higher power that you have no proof for you do a dis service to all those health professionals who helped me and others get better and all the years of scientific discovery that has led us to the point we are at now that allows us to prevent and treat so many more illness' and problems than we ever could in the past ( by the way why didn't god "lead" us to these discoveries earlier so we could save more lives? Why now, over the last two hundred years when according to your lot we are living in even more sin than ever before, I would have thought he would have hidden them so as to punish us) . Also, it's interesting that the amount of people who are ill who also pray and believe in god that don't get better is as high as it is, why does god save some, such as you, and not others in your eyes? Have you ever tried refusing treatment for an illness and just prayed? Try it, and lets see how far you get.