Why Won’t God Heal Amputees?

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Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Why won't

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God heal amputees? Now when you think about this challenge, this challenge has within it a presupposition that somehow

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God is obligated to heal everybody, especially amputees.

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Now, the simple reality is that God allowed sin into the world for purposes that he felt would allow him to show his attributes.

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We've dealt with that on previous podcasts, and the fact that he has done this doesn't mean that somehow he's not a

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God of love or anything else. The reality that you end up seeing is that God allowing amputees or people with challenges actually could be used to make people stronger.

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I remember once in New York City going and evangelizing, and a gentleman told me

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God does not exist because he prayed as a child to be healed of his intellectually challenged.

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Well, he had to study harder than everyone else in school and work harder than everyone else in the job, and that's what got him there.

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And I asked him a simple question, would you have worked as hard if God answered your prayer?

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And suddenly it clicked. He realized he wouldn't be where he was had he not had to work harder than everybody else.

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