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Why does prayer never work for amputees?

Lots of people have been cured of cancer and other diseases by praying to Our Lord Jesus Christ, but I've never found any record of an amputee regrowing a limb. My uncle was injured in the first Gulf War and lost his left leg below the knee. He has prayed daily for a new lower leg since then, but nothing has happened yet. Why not? why can god cure cancer but not regrow a leg? Lizards can regrow their tails!

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  • 3 years ago

    It would take an act of creation since there isn't any matter to work with. This is a very high form of healing.

  • 3 years ago

    <Lizards can regrow their tails!> At least some can. Some amphibians can regenerate whole limbs. All of which mean genetic coding for regrowing organs is buried in reptilian and amphibian and other DNA readily accessible to researchers. And which requires stem cell research, of course. Not to mention science. Even gaining the ability to regrow teeth would be huge, but we'll have to rely on science, because religion can't do it.

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    Source(s): Did you ever notice how God never seems to do any of the heavy lifting?
  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Too much homophobia agaisnt them -.-

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    I invite you, Cletus, + anyone else to look at the website of Nick Vujicic ( https://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/ )............you may find it/him interesting at the least

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  • 3 years ago

    This article on faith healing exposes what's real about it and what's not.

    Please read this and see what your opinion on the matter is:

    https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp201...

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Because humans are not tail-regenerating lizards

  • 3 years ago

    Amputation is the medical cure for various limb problems. Jesus healed sick for a limited occasion to set an important sample for us to follow. His miracles are only for proving God's presence. We follow His examples by the "miracles" of our own science. God's assurance is heaven and eternal life, not perfection of earth life. Why is you tone implying that heaven is meaningless?

  • 3 years ago

    God has limited time, and there's far too many lizards on Earth.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    God only likes those rabid followers who have all their members intact, including their genitalia.

    Deut 23:

    1_No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD. 2_No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.…

    Rolls eyes

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    You could end your question on the word "work"

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