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Old 02-29-2008, 01:49 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by BearsysRevenge View Post
Legal, why won't God heal amputees?

If he's all powerful that would sure make a bunch more people start believing in him/her/it/them.
There are many possible explanations that have been given for why God doesn't heal amputees, cure cancer, etc. I won't give any of these, but let's take a real world example. Let's say that I eliminate the problem of AIDS in Africa. Great, right? What if by doing this, though, it makes the problem of famine and starvation worse? In fact, the new starvation problem might end up being worse than the previous starvation and AIDS problems combined. While in the beginning it looked like I was doing good (from my limited perspective), it turns out things were better the way that they were. Perhaps God has made the world perfect as it is. It doesn't look that way from my perspective, but God can see much more from her perspective. Hard to believe, yes. Impossible, no.


"If he's all powerful that would surely make a bunch more people start believing in him/her/it/them."-Why would an all powerful being be so worried as to what everyone thinks of it? I've always found it really strange that people think that the all powerful, all seeing God lives to see us worshiping him/her/it. Talk about an inferiority complex!
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