Atheism and Amputation - (A new obsession of anti-Christian atheism)

Christian Post ^ | 28 Nov 07 | Peter Rosenberg

[beachdweller]

I think it’s instructive to understand the background for this question. A common theme with atheists is that, while healings do occur, it is never a healing that mends a broken bone or regrows a lost limb. The implication is that only healings that can be psychologically explained actually occur, whereas presumably God can perform any healing requested if it is His will. I do believe God could to any of these things if He so chose, but atheists point to this as “proof” He doesn’t actually exist. I think they are ignoring many miracles to focus on one that is rare indeed in order to question faith.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

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[tiki]

“If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.”

[fatima]

I just did a little research.This was the first cure.”The diocesan investigation of the miraculous healing took place at the Salerno Curia from July 24, 1996 to June 27, 1997, and with its decree of September 26, 1997, accepted the validity of the cure. The acts were then published and the documentation was studied by two experts ex officio and then by a medical consultant. On April 30, 1998, these experts unanimously announced the “extraordinary and scientifically inexplicable” nature of Signora Consiglia’s cure.”
http://www.catholicculture.org/library/view.cfm?recnum=1018

[fatima]

God Bless them.I will pray for them.An atheist helped make my faith stronger.We owned a little grocery store and I had just begun a prayer life.When it was slow I would read books about God and the Angels and the Saints.This man would walk in and make fun of me and say prove it.Made me do a lot of research.This went on for about a year but nothing would change his mind but I sure learned a lot.He left the state because his wife was pregnant and he wanted her to have an abortion and she said no so he moved away.A year later he came back.He told me he made a mistake and wanted a life with his wife and son who he fell in love with instantly.She took him back and I told him he was blessed and I asked him to say a prayer with me.He said yes so we held hands and Thanked God,he began to cry.:)It was nice.

[Zionist Conspirator]

So you've had run-ins with our FReeper atheists too, eh?

The really important issue--the root of the whole matter--is that morality is in its very essence submission to the will of the Creator. No matter how good or altruistic atheists may be they do their good deeds because they want to and not out of obedience to G-d, which means it isn't morality at all.

Once "one can be moral without G-d" is translated as "one can submit to G-d without G-d" then it is shown for the nonsense it is.

[allmendream]

Some day we may well be able to regrow limbs. The relevance of this upon the existence of God I cannot possibly fathom; for HE created us with miraculous possibilities and a world subject to natural forces that we can understand and manipulate to heal the sick and give relief to the afflicted. But doing it through Science would do nothing to establish that prayer is not heard, or that God does not exist.

[Gamecock]

her deeds would have been "more noble," since she wouldn't have been doing them with the thought of an afterlife as a reward

Two thoughts:

1. In general, Christians don't do "noble" acts for rewards in Heaven, but out of a grateful response for what God has done for us.

2. Perhaps atheists perform noble acts for rewards on earth.