Forget about missing limbs, how come god never cures retardation?

God does not cure retardation, for a couple of reasons:

1. I know that some of the most important things of life are actually more plainly seen and grasped by the mentally retarded than the most erudite scholar.... God uses the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, the weak things of the world to shame the strong (1 Corinthians 1.27)....

2. To those parts of the body (humanity) that are embarrassing and without honor, God gives special honor (1 Corinthians 12, verse 22 especially).

EDIT: Wow, 4 thumbs down and a "shut the *bleep* up"....

Hey Foxy, have you been to a L'Arche community, like I have, worked with men and women with broken bodies and a locked up minds, yet - inspite of all that darkness and death and bitterness - still seen God move in the hearts of people?

I also have cousins and siblings/children of friends with all manner of problems like those in PN's question. Also, I was an "adjunct assistant" (helped friends who were assistants) in university to friends with cystic fibrosis and MS.

And, while some have expressed the bitterness that you have demonstrated by your typed words, (often towards "an unfair God/god"), for some reason that I cannot fully comprehend, all in my circle have been moved at the core of their being to thankfulness, healing and wholeness IN SPITE of the externalities of their situation.

While not "effective" and "efficient" and "productive", and therefore, "valuable" as our capitalist society sees "value", these men and women - my friends on a whole other level - have shown me that they have value in and of themselves. They have even pointed me towards the One that gives them that value....

I have had the most real signs of deep affection from my friends with Downs.... Deep affection that shows how hollow and conditional in my affection I am; this has been hard for me to face myself, but Someone has been gracious.

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I would strongly recommend checking out the site below in my sources, as well as any of Henri Nouwen's later writings. Henri spent the last many years of his life in one of the L'Arche communities in the Great Toronto Area, called L'Arche Daybreak, north of Metropolitan Toronto. He was an attendant and friend - in all that those terms mean - for Bill, when before that he was a well-respected Roman Catholic Priest and a Harvard scholar.

God can heal anyone of anything including an amputee's limb. But these Judas Preachers are pretenders to gain larger congregations power and money. And they have no power to heal anyone of anything. They can fool most of the people most of the time. But they cannot make limbs to grow before the cameras. They can only pretend to heal diseases that cannot be proven true or false. Bottom li ne is: They lie for the almighty dollar.

I feel sad for you...... I really do....... I know of many that have been healed before and after birth and in all stages of age and life..... Just because you have never been around or known in person, those that have been healed, does not mean it has not happened... I have a nephew that has Downs Syndrom, and he is the sweatest most adorable creation God ever made.... He may not be perfect by YOUR standerds but by Gods and MINE and his parents and his grandparents, and I might add the rest of his very LARGE family, hes is....... He is a special gift to us and to even think of him any other way is impossible for us....... Even by the use of that word *retardation* you show how *ugly* you are inside...... and has for all the other disabilities you name, I have no answer as to the whys or hows, all I know is I look for the beauty in them just as I do in all people.... It is a shame that some people can not see that all people are gifts and should be cherished just as they are, no matter what, even if they are with us only a short while....... How sad that some people can only find fault instead of just loving and living..... I myself chose to love and live........ go in peace...... God bless

Since a retarded person can be elected to office ( with a

little tweaking of the system ) and do God's work, there's

no need for God to cure it.

hmm one time I prayed that the school would burn down and it never happened

I was lied to to!!!!!!!!

*starts crying hysterically and runs away*

but seriously sometimes Patients beat cancer or any deadly disease. not that Im saying that it was a God but it CAN happen (getting cured not God lol)

Because if he cured it nobody would believe in him ! A paradox .

Because Christians have demonized intelligence with their false interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve...

Because his followers might be able to think for themselves if he did...

Insert cheesy cliche here --------> God works in mysterious ways.

One day you will get to ask all those questions to Him face to face. Have you ever prayed and asked Him earnestly? Is this your excuse for not accepting Him? I have the feeling that of you had this answer...you would come up with another excuse.