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God and Amputees

• Posted by Theresa on February 14th, 2007 filed in Believe It or Not

Last week I posted a video link that asked 10 questions that every intelligent Christian must answer. One of my readers (heissailing) commented on his blog about question #1 Why won’t God heal amputees? One of the questions he raises which I think is even more intriguing than why God won’t heal them. Why won’t Christians pray for amputees to be healed?

Sure, they will pray for someone with cancer and give the glory to God when the treatments made possible through science put the cancer into remission. Sure, they will pray for God to guide a surgeon’s hands and pray for a quick recovery. Sure, they will pray for someone to get a job or a promotion - something that the person must go out and work for. Sure, they will pray for a blessing over the food - something that there is no proof of happening or not. It seems as though Christians only pray for things that take no faith. Heissailing proposes that we never ask for the miraculous because, deep down, even though we are afraid to admit it, we know the miraculous, supernatural healing of God never occurs.

“But we rarely ever pray for an actual miraculous intervention of the supernatural.”

I once met a man who had been prayed for to restore his hearing. He had had to take an early retirement because his job depended on his ability to hear. But God did not heal him. But did the congregation blame God? No, they blamed the man for not having enough faith. This man never let anybody pray for him again.

Heissailing relates a story of somebody in his church saying he prayed for an amputee and his arm grew back right then and there. But nobody believed him.

“Why did nobody believe him? Because deep down, we know but are afraid to admit, miracles do not happen. If you start telling people that you saw an amputee grow his arm back, people, even believing Christians, will think you are a bit nuts. So instead of believing in the truly miraculous, we are willing to accept God granting people jobs and slowly recovering from illnesses that happen at the same rate as the heathen who never acknowledge God for anything.”

Read the rest of heissailing’s post here. He has some interesting thoughts in “My Miraculous Hangup.”

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