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Why won't God heal amputees?
#1
Why won't God heal amputees?
It happened before, supposedly:

Wikipedia -- Healing the ear of a servant

Is it wrong for an amputee to pray for such a healing?  By the way, I will convert to Christianity (or, whatever religion the healed person claims to believe in) today if such a bonafide miracle can be documented this day.
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#2
RE: Why won't God heal amputees?
A newt doesn't have to. Cut off it's tail and it will grow back.

Proof positive that god is an amphibian.
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#3
RE: Why won't God heal amputees?
(June 3, 2020 at 11:30 am)Jehanne Wrote: It happened before, supposedly:

Wikipedia -- Healing the ear of a servant

Is it wrong for an amputee to pray for such a healing?  By the way, I will convert to Christianity (or, whatever religion the healed person claims to believe in) today if such a bonafide miracle can be documented this day.

what if he does through grafting cloned biological material or through the use of robotics? or are you a dark age follower of God and God must 'magic' you arm back on?
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#4
RE: Why won't God heal amputees?
God works in mysterious ways, your suffering to prolong.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Why won't God heal amputees?
(June 3, 2020 at 12:10 pm)Drich Wrote:
(June 3, 2020 at 11:30 am)Jehanne Wrote: It happened before, supposedly:

Wikipedia -- Healing the ear of a servant

Is it wrong for an amputee to pray for such a healing?  By the way, I will convert to Christianity (or, whatever religion the healed person claims to believe in) today if such a bonafide miracle can be documented this day.

what if he does through grafting cloned biological material or through the use of robotics? or are you a dark age follower of God and God must 'magic' you arm back on?

Not really a miracle, though, is it? Robotics, cloning and grafting can all come about irrespective of God.

Similar to what Jehanne said, I’ll convert the day I wake up with my left eye regrown and fully functional.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Why won't God heal amputees?
(June 3, 2020 at 11:30 am)Jehanne Wrote: It happened before, supposedly:

Wikipedia -- Healing the ear of a servant

Is it wrong for an amputee to pray for such a healing?  By the way, I will convert to Christianity (or, whatever religion the healed person claims to believe in) today if such a bonafide miracle can be documented this day.

That would be a stronger argument for keeping out of a religion than joining it.  Heals one rando ear, that's a thing it can do....but it's deaf to all the other folks who've been chopped up?

We'd be talking about a god who hears the miserable cries of the injured, could help, and says no.

Pass.
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RE: Why won't God heal amputees?
(June 3, 2020 at 12:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(June 3, 2020 at 12:10 pm)Drich Wrote: what if he does through grafting cloned biological material or through the use of robotics? or are you a dark age follower of God and God must 'magic' you arm back on?

Not really a miracle, though, is it? Robotics, cloning and grafting can all come about irrespective of God.

Similar to what Jehanne said, I’ll convert the day I wake up with my left eye regrown and fully functional.

Boru

it would be to those writing the bible would it not? shouldn't that be the standard of a miracle? other what separates God from science? God is the God of the natural observable world. science is the study of that world. science discovers aspects of God and makes it common knowledge. So what if 'science' recreate something god had only previously been able to do? does it make science any more powerful or God any less? If God creates and puts into place the systems of reproductive cloning that science has recorded and observed, and now science can repeat God's natural processes how does that devalue the creator when all you can do is copy what has been created? it is not like science is calling out into the void and demanding light life and the like. we are just learning how this world can be work or understood.
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RE: Why won't God heal amputees?
Science exists. You're welcome.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#9
RE: Why won't God heal amputees?
(June 3, 2020 at 4:45 pm)Drich Wrote:
(June 3, 2020 at 12:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Not really a miracle, though, is it? Robotics, cloning and grafting can all come about irrespective of God.

Similar to what Jehanne said, I’ll convert the day I wake up with my left eye regrown and fully functional.

Boru

it would be to those writing the bible would it not? shouldn't that be the standard of a miracle? other what separates God from science? God is the God of the natural observable world. science is the study of that world. science discovers aspects of God and makes it common knowledge. So what if 'science' recreate something god had only previously been able to do? does it make science any more powerful or God any less? If God creates and puts into place the systems of reproductive cloning that science has recorded and observed, and now science can repeat God's natural processes how does that devalue the creator when all you can do is copy what has been created? it is not like science is calling out into the void and demanding light life and the like. we are just learning how this world can be work or understood.

Who said anything about ‘devaluing the creator’? It’s perfectly possible that god started a long, convoluted chain of events that will one day give me a bionic eye. It’s equally possible that bionic eyes will be invented in a universe without god.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Why won't God heal amputees?
God gives you a perfect body and you go and lose a bit of it.
All the spare parts are in heaven.
You have to wait until then to get it back.
If we had all the spare parts on earth, men would be walking around with three dicks.




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