Most theologians think those verses only applied to His disciples, that the healing left when the disciples were martyred or died. If its in His will to heal amputees, then maybe He will, but you're missing the point. I would say that if the amputee were christian, then it would be better for Him just to kill them and send them on to their better place. Why have a healed leg here only to go to Hell in the end. Your anger at God is very telling. You're a very angry person. Why are you so angry?
Prayer is effective. I know that from personal experience. But the power of prayer comes from faith and it's very rare that you have enough faith to really get a powerful result from prayer. That has happened to me only twice in my lifetime of 46 years.
Or.... um...... anyone? There is not any evidence of miracles, there is little reason to believe that they occur. The reason why I do not believe they occur is obvious.
Because heaven would be better than a healed leg, and yes judging from your posts, on other threads, you do seem angry. Do you really think this is the first time people have heard this arguement? Is it new to you? Anybody who has studied apologetics have heard these questions a thousand times. I wish someone would come up with new questions, but all I see are the same old ones, and I've answered some of them, and others have answered them, but we'll consistently hear them again......
So why not kill everyone? Wouldn't heaven be better fro everyone? I am glad you think so. For having heard them so many times before I would have hoped for better rebuttals. However the answers I receive are short cited. I ask a direct question and receive the run around. Q: Why doesn't god heal amputees? A: Maybe they aren't Christians Quite the argument there.
God is not interested in healing amputees for you to see. As I showed, Jesus healed only one person at the pool in John 5, yet there were many that needed healing. So, its not hard. God doesn't want to heal everyone. Quantrill
Because it is just not possible. Despite what fundamentalists may say, God doesn't suspend the laws of nature very often. However, your posts (that I've read on this and other sited over the years (namely PCF)), IMHO, are a good indicator of why you are so militantly atheist. You learned a strange version of religion, and are rebelling against it.
Not so much rebelling just as a loss of words as to how people can actually believe this (*)(*)(*)(*).
I don't believe the stuff you post as being typical of Christian thinking. It's not. You have a wild idea about what Christians believe, and of course, reality is not going to jive with it.
In Luke: 49 When Jesus followers saw what was going to happen, they said, Lord, should we strike with our swords? 50 And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. 51 But Jesus answered, No more of this! And he touched the mans ear and healed him. I suppose if you had the faith of Christ,amputations wouldn't be impossible.
Because everyone doesn't go to Heaven. I never said "because they weren't christians", and I never gave you the run around. Youre like the little kid that always asks why, but never really wants an answer.
I don't understand this answer. Either God can suspend the laws of nature or he can't. If he can then it is possible for an amputee to get a new limb. If he can't then it is, as you say, "just not possible" for an amputee to get a new limb. Saying that it is just not possible and that God doesn't suspend the laws of nature very often, hence implying that it is indeed possible, is contradictory.
