Tough Questions for Christians #15: Amputees

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I haven’t posted a “Tough Question” for a while, so here’s a new one for you: Why won’t God heal amputees?

Most people I talk to, or most people I pose this question to, say: “God doesn’t work like that. He casts out devils, he heals the sick, but losing a limb isn’t exactly a sickness.”

If the bible story is to be taken literally, then God works exactly like that. When the soldiers came to capture Jesus, one of them had his ear cut off. Jesus picked up the ear and reattached it to the guy’s head. Just like that.

Jesus said that anyone who truly believes in him will be able to perform the same type of miracles he does, and even greater miracles. So reattaching arms, legs, ears, noses, or any other body part should be a simple matter of faith.

So, why aren’t Christians doing it?

There has not been a single recorded event of anyone having a limb grow back, or be reattached, by prayer. It just hasn’t happened.

Christians, why aren’t you out glorifying God by reattaching the severed limbs from the war victims in Iraq, or causing people to grow new limbs, thus proving the validity of your religion?

Why aren’t you healing amputees?

TOUGH QUESTION FOR CHRISTIANS # 15:

WHY AREN’T YOU REATTACHING LIMBS FOR THE GLORY OF GOD?

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Tough Questions for Christians #12: Evil God

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God is good, God is great, God is infinitely merciful, or at least that’s what everyone tells me when they send me emails saying he’s going to burn me in Hell forever.

This “great” “good” God has personally drowned millions of people, he’s killed people for infractions as minor as simply looking the wrong direction, and if God created everything, then he is personally responsible for the ebola virus, the bubonic plague, flesh eating bacteria, and bad breath.

If that’s “good,” then what’s "evil?"

That’s my question for you this time. What action could God commit, or what action could God do that you would consider evil?

TOUGH QUESTION FOR CHRISTIANS #12:

WHAT ACTIONS WOULD BE “EVIL” OR “IMMORAL” IF COMMITTED BY GOD?

originally posted on YouTube at: www.youtube.com/azatheist