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Religious people often assert that God heals ill people. Yet this very same God NEVER seems to heal amputees. God only seems to heal conditions that also heal naturally. Why so inconsistent?
if god actually exists he is evil. imagine if there was a child being murdered right in front of you by another person and instead of trying to save the child you just stand there and observe the entire process of the child being murdered, despite knowing you have the chance of stopping it.
people would absolutely get pissed and hate you and you prob would get arrested, and yet when god just sits there watching millions of people being tortured and murdered daily people praise and worship him as a benevolent god. hell nah if that bitch literally has the power to save/revive people or whatever he needs to actually get off his ass and do something imagine being a god with healing powers and not even using them what a loser
"if god actually exists he is evil."
He could also be impotent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGWCxBiCt7Y) or - as I suspect - nonexistent.
I'd be pretty much above it tbh. You are omniscient, that power leap is unimaginable. Worst thing you can say about god is that hes lazy, put in a bunch of systems (laws of physics) that magically work together.
Listen reality is kinda fucky that we are even experiencing this. And the universe as we know it is fucky as it exists. When it simple can, not exist. Whatever created...
*waves arms around* This.
Deserves to be called god. Saving a single person is as insignificant as saving a yeast cell.
If you're an amputee and you're still alive you did heal. You must have or you'd be dead.
Agnostic but I hate when people pick on gods absence as appearing to be willfully neglectful.
So what? You lost an arm or a leg. Others are starving, others are in a trench covered in their own blood, others are trapped underneath meters of rubble. Life can give you a bad hand, to the point where you just die.
Life sucks. But isnt that the point of an afterlife? Where god cares for your needs in a perfect place? How do you weed out the bad apples? Simple you weed them out by applying some resistance to the good hearted.
I hope the christian god exists. The catholic one seems to have a stick up his ass.
Honestly I think 98% of us do the bare minimum to get into heaven. As long as you arent willingly evil, putting in the work to do wrong. I think you are fine.
Life on earth could be better but it's up to all of us to do better. Moping around about how god isnt wiping your ass isnt a good argument about his existence.
"I hate when people pick on gods absence as appearing to be willfully neglectful."
Well, it seems like a very legitimate issue...
"So what? You lost an arm or a leg. Others are starving, others are in a trench covered in their own blood, others are trapped underneath meters of rubble. Life can give you a bad hand, to the point where you just die."
You're talking about suffering in general. I specifically asked about amputees, though, about why God won't heal them, when other people, apparently, DO get healed. You haven't really answered the question...
"I hope the christian god exists."
I sure don't. The Christian God, according to the Bible, is a monster.
"The catholic one seems to have a stick up his ass."
Catholicism is a branch of Christianity. They have the EXACT same God.
Same god, different perspectives one what hes like. The Catholics are the ones that prescribe him to be a psychopath.
The Christian God is a psychopath according to the Bible, which is used by ALL Christian denominations, not just Catholicism. Just read 1 Samuel 15:3, just to name one of mamy, many examples.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense. Like it'd make sense if he was unable to for whatever reason, but that he would if he could. But if you have the ability to eliminate someone's suffering, with so little effort that it'd be nothing to you, then I don't see how that doesn't make you a really bad person for refusing to do so.
Because God theoretically does things on His own timeline according to His infinite, inscrutable wisdom rather than how baseless sinners want Him to do it? God isn't a slot machine? I'm not even religious but this argument is so dumb, take a lesson from that amputee Christian surfer girl and get a life! It's not the 2010s your New Atheism arguments are passé
"Because God theoretically does things on His own timeline according to His infinite, inscrutable wisdom rather than how baseless sinners want Him to do it? God isn't a slot machine?"
You seem to be talking about suffering in general. I specifically asked about amputees, though, about why God won't heal them, when other people, apparently, DO get healed.
"I'm not even religious but this argument is so dumb, take a lesson from that amputee Christian surfer girl and get a life! It's not the 2010s your New Atheism arguments are passé
Passé, huh? Yet you fail to answer the question...
I already did answer it. Theoretically, God does things that you may not understand because it's God. Basically, God works in mysterious ways. Smh.
God isnt your servant its the other way around. God wants you to fear him. All this nonsense you've been taught about God is bullshit. If you read your bible you'll see they have lied to you. He's killed off the entire planet before. He's not really directly worried about your limb missing because this life is a trial.
"Cursed is the man who trust in man." Just because we've been lied to about God doesn't mean he doesn't exist. He just doesn't exist in the hugs and rainbows way you have been taught he exists by man.
"God isnt your servant its the other way around. God wants you to fear him."
You don't even know a God exists, let alone what they are or want.
"All this nonsense you've been taught about God is bullshit."
You don't know what I've been taught.
"If you read your bible you'll see they have lied to you."
If there's a God, why would it be the sadistic God of the Bible?
"He's killed off the entire planet before."
Prove it. And no, the Bible isn't proof, merely the claim.
"He's not really directly worried about your limb missing because this life is a trial."
Then why DOES he apparently heal all kinds of non-amputees? You haven't really answered the question...
I dont know what YOU have been taught, I didnt claim too. Im speaking of the modern day portrayal of Christianity by most churches.
"If there's a God, why would it be the sadistic God of the Bible?" Why wouldnt it be? Does God being a big meanie mean he cant exist? If there is a God is it even logical to think he is all hugs and rainbows when you look around at all the suffering?
I cant prove the flood but many scientists today say there was at one point a massive flood. Half of Africa was underwater just 50k years ago but some say it was even sooner.
Drowning the world and saving all animals? Doubt there is healthy. A big ass flood that's worth writing about? Way more common than you think.
Granted if you lived your entire life within the same group of villages a big ass flood might as well be the world.
"Im speaking of the modern day portrayal of Christianity by most churches."
Fair enough.
"Why wouldnt it be?"
That's not a proper response to my question. Besides, it's not my job to disprove your God, as I'm not the one asserting that this God exists. You are, so you have the burden of proof.
"Does God being a big meanie mean he cant exist?"
No, but it DOES mean I could/would NEVER worship such a being.
"If there is a God is it even logical to think he is all hugs and rainbows when you look around at all the suffering?"
I don't think God is all hugs and rainbows at all. I think God is probably imaginary. I do hope there is a God, though, a truly good and loving God, not that disgusting bitch Yahweh.
You're talking about suffering in general. I specifically asked about amputees, though, about why God won't heal them, when other people, apparently, DO get healed. You haven't really answered the question...
Cause God Ain't real, just a figment of imagination of someone from the past! or it's all part of Gods plan just have faith, it's up to you, what you believe in! The choice is yours, I already know my answer!
As it appears to me, life is simply "organized chaos". The small ants might as well ask, "Why won't human beings walk mindfully so as not crush us to our deaths in significant numbers with their footsteps on a daily basis?". Guess what? We would most likely be asking ourselves, (and God, indirectly, because my belief is that all that's in existence came from one source that religions and faiths label as "God" in their varying terminologies and levels of understanding of the universe) a similar question if that asteroid hadn't wiped out the entire dinosaur population sixty-six million years ago.
Well, personally, if I was omnicient and knew where every ant I personally planned and created was residing,,, I would surely avoid stepping on them.
In fact, If I was omnipitent, I wouldn't have placed them where they would be at risk of getting stepped on and crushed in the first place. Why make them if they mean so little? Why claim to love them?
I'm reminded of how, at one point, one of the Saints, I believe it was Alphonsus Liguori, was concerned that his order wasn't pleasing God well enough. The basis for his concern: things were going too well for them.