Anyone knows anyone healed from Amputation?

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Originally posted by mikejuli

where did you go to? god hates amputees? maybe that should be a test for some of those faith healers and those who seek after the sensationalism of miracle men instead of faith.

i do know that jesus healed a mans ear that had been lopped off by peter.. but i also know many people, especially in the evangelical sects that did not get healed. the easy answer is to just accuse them of not having enough faith or having some hidden sin, or the hard answer is that power to heal and be rich and all that is not what the gospel is about evan. the amputees are the exception that prove the rule...

please don't take that as a claim that god never heals.. cause that's not what i'm sayin.. i just think that it is probably rare that an actual provable miracle happens.

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Why Won't God Heal Amputees?

I found this website (click for link) as I was searching for some information for a friend who is an amputee. It's written in book form with extensive analysis of reasons and logical explanations supporting the "fact" that God is imaginary. One argument made is that there never were any healings by Christ of amputees and never have been any healing of amputees.

The author posits that we would be better off in a more rational world.

My immediate response to this, being a person with a disability, was to feel used. This increased as I read on that the author used my condition, spinal cord injury, as yet another example of someone whom God would never heal.

That is simply not true.

I have been healed. I do not walk. My hands, wrists and legs remain paralyzed. But, make no mistake about it, I have been healed.

And that healing has come from God.

If these words make no sense to those of a secular bent, that is fine by me. I am willing to be called a fool in God's name. But read on, because I can explain what I mean in much less space than a book.

It is quite simple: I asked for healing from God. I prayed at Mass every week for healing with a great sense of assurance that God could, if He would, heal me. I remained open minded about how that healing would occur.

And I have been healed.

I am content in my circumstances most of the time. . I, like any other human being, am in a process of finding my way to a full life. Being human, I have bad days, but those are not necessarily related to being a quadriplegic.

If any of you out there don't have bad days, please email me. That surely is another miracle that is on the list of ones God has not performed yet!

My point is that healing does not necessarily mean that a limb will be regenerated. It is a narrow and ableist point of view to take that people with disabilities can only be healed if their disability is removed. How arrogant to assume that we are all miserable because we are disabled. Many people with disabilities, including myself, take offense at that assumption.

What I do know, because I live with a disability, is that the healing I required to move on with my life was spiritual. I took on the assumptions of society that I could not live a full and productive life. I let myself be "psyched out" and became negative and angry. I dug myself into a deep hole of self pity and self loathing.

It was from that pit that I needed rescuing. God did that. That was my healing.

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Originally posted by Faith_at_Large

The Pope does have that level of Faith. Pope JPII healed many while he was alive.

And one does not have to be a pope to heal either. Blessed Brother Andre, founder/builder of St. Joseph's Oratory in Quebec, was a very simple man with a deep and profound faith. He was famous for healing, and worked many miracles when he was alive also.

I usually don't dwell on them because if you are only seeking after signs and wonders, then you are no better off than those who followed Jesus when He was feeding the crowds with loaves and fish but walked away when He wanted to teach something deeper.

The Catholic Church has been filled with many miracles over the centuries. But there are many more things that we should be seeking than just the miracles. Satan performs his own lying signs and wonders.

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Originally posted by Faith_at_Large

Doctors would claim that the amputation never occurred in the first place unless they saw it, and those believers that need this kind of evidence will just as likely believe a lie.

Have you ever restored a lost limb?

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Originally posted by Faith_at_Large

Eyes have been restored, that were gone, I think that this should count.

Atrophied limbs have been reformed into strong limbs capable of supporting weight and full function.

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Originally posted by Taipanus

When skeptics and atheists cast doubt on miraculous healings, one of their main arguments is that we never seem to see amputations being restored. And they've got a point.

Most of the healings seem to be of "hidden" ailments - cancer, deafness, eyesight - but always with the relevant organs still whole.

I fail to see why amputatees shouldn't be healed from time to time, with proof both before and after of limbs missing and then reappearing. But they don't seem to happen.

I have no doubt God could do it. If Christ could raise a man who'd been dead and rotting for four days, then He could certainly restore lost limbs.

But so far He seems to have avoided doing so.

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