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Question: Why won't god heal amputees!?
The age ol' question; well!? why won't he!?

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That's what is wrong with our world!.!. people believing myths!. It's no different than any other 'fairy tale' -- there simply is no 'god' aka 'deity' - just as there is no 'santa claus' etc, etc!.!. ad nauseum!.!.

We surely are in dire straits!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I must assume you mean "heal" in the physical sense!. I know a few people that were "healed" in such a way that I never understood where they got the strength to go on!. The physical limitations eventually became so unnoticeable in their day to day lives, that all I could see was a force they all seem to have!.
Did God do it for them!? I never asked them, but I suspect they all feel that a power source had touched them with the strength to carry on!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

although i am not religious in any way I could only look at it in their perspective!. God believes in self-sacrifice and everything that happens, happens for a reason!. So somewhere along the line whether the amputee had to get his arm blew off in combat (self-sacrifice) or amputated through a disease they must follow some path!. Remember this is my guess of what a Christian person would say!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Because God is a Deist!. Deists like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson believed that although God created everything in existence, He then sat back and watched, and does nothing to change the "natural order of things as He has conceived them!."

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By the way, it sounds as if Jefferson was aware of evolution and believed in it:
"!.!.!.there is in all this, design, cause and effect, up to an ultimate cause, a Fabricator of all things from matter and motion, their Preserver and Regulator, while permitted to exist in their present forms, and their regeneration into new and other forms!." ibidWww@QuestionHome@Com

Why does God allow people's limbs to get severed!? You can ask a hundred whys, why don't we fly!? Why do we die!? Why do we fall sick!? Why is there evil!? Why is the world designed in the way that it is!? Why do we feel pain!? Why doesn't God make me taller when I pray!? Why are there short people and tall people!?

But you can ask the same thing of governments, why is food not free!? why doesn't the government help everyone who needs expensive surgeries!?

It's pointless, because at the end of the day, there's a system that has been designed, and it follows rules rather than use exceptions!. Why are we asking why there are no exceptions!? We should be asking 'Why' when there is an exception!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

God created Man, He didn't create our capacity for evil!. We humans did that one!.!.!. and violence is what creates accidents that cause amputation to be necessary!. --- God had nothing to do with it!. 'Violence' could be as subtle as getting gangrene or irreversible frostbite, to something as obvious as getting hit by a car, incoming mortar or bomb!.

As for your first answerer ---- there IS a God, and I have proof!. Let's see you top THAT one! Yeah!.!.!.!.!., proof!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

To quote-

God: I put a lot of thought into the universe!. Came up with the rules!. It sets a bad example if I break them!. Not to mention, It shows favoritism!. Why should one person get a miracle!? And not every body else!? Can you imagine the confusion!? It's better when we all abide by the rules!.

J: No miracle!.

God: Miracles happen within the rules!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well, I have a work mate who had his leg amputated when he was young, he is now 60, and it was some months after meeting him that I found out about that, he walks almost like anyone else with only a slight limp, so I think God has heald him!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

This is not "our" final resting place!.
Spirit creatures having a human experience!.
Heal!?!? as in what healing!?
Spirit!. Mind!. Body!. Soul!?
Maybe "god" has healed them!.
I do not know because I am not with the "amputees"
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As crazy as this sounds!.

They're beauty in vulnerability!.

We won't truly love someone fully if they were perfect, but we will open up to people who are vulnerable!.

It is within vulnerablity where true love exists!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

we shouldn't wait for a physical healing!. that's not what will open our way to Heaven!. Our souls have to be healed!. and I am sure more amputees have pure souls that us, the "perfect" peopleWww@QuestionHome@Com

Why has evolution not solved that problem!. Would be nice to grow back a limb would it not if you lost one!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

God's a lizard and expects you to heal yourself!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Maybe there's nothing to be healed!.
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Blah,bla,bla!. If they are up right and sucking air then he did did he not!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

well he must feel that they are not worthy of his help like starving kids!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

There's a reason for each bad thing, of course!. Just depends on what!. Just wait for the future!.Www@QuestionHome@Com