# Believers in faith healing: why doesn't God restore amputated limbs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 4, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-in-faith-healing-why-doesnt-god-restore-amputated-limbs/475741 "2008-12-04T20:45:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-in-faith-healing-why-doesnt-god-restore-amputated-limbs/475741/101 "2008-12-06T21:26:58Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > **Guinastasia** , you made a comment in the other thread about whether your obsessive-compulsive disorder qualifed you as demon-possessed. Just for the hell of it I asked my Pentecostal-Christian brother, and he replied “Yes,” with a raft of Bible verses to back up his opinion. Really? Cool! Not even just as a metaphor? Real, honest to goodness demons? Wow. Wonder if I can train them to be my unholy army of the night? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-in-faith-healing-why-doesnt-god-restore-amputated-limbs/475741/102 "2008-12-06T21:32:15Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Really? Cool! Not even just as a metaphor? Real, honest to goodness demons? Wow. Wonder if I can train them to be my unholy army of the night? I wonder if my brother’s “I am being mocked” sense is going off? As I described you in the email as an acquaintance, and not someone I knew only online, he also offered to pray for you if you wish. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-in-faith-healing-why-doesnt-god-restore-amputated-limbs/475741/103 "2008-12-06T22:06:21Z")
I have depression with a bit of bipolar, am I possessed as well? Of course I’m also gay so that right there probably qualifies. Guin, we should get your demons and mine together and rule the world. (as Skald’s generals or something of course!) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-in-faith-healing-why-doesnt-god-restore-amputated-limbs/475741/104 "2008-12-06T22:08:47Z")
Sounds like a plan to me! Maybe we could even start a training school for demons who wish to posess others? Then we can not only rule the world, we can _control the population_! ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-in-faith-healing-why-doesnt-god-restore-amputated-limbs/475741/105 "2008-12-06T22:11:00Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Sounds like a plan to me! Maybe we could even start a training school for demons who wish to posess others? Then we can not only rule the world, we can _control the population_! And a class where they can learn that showy stuff like making heads spin and spider walking on the ceiling and such. Gotta have an army of the damned with a little flair you know. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-in-faith-healing-why-doesnt-god-restore-amputated-limbs/475741/106 "2008-12-07T22:43:34Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Whatever kind of novel God’s writing, it’s not the kind where anything can happen at any time without regard for reason, rules, or consistency. Like when the sun stood still in the sky? Or water became wine? Or the dead was re-animated? What reason and rules did that follow? ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-in-faith-healing-why-doesnt-god-restore-amputated-limbs/475741/107 "2008-12-07T23:01:25Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > The way to God through Jesus works entirely on faith. God so perfectly controls the universe that he can heal anything and even raise the dead in a way that the general population never realizes. God wants to reveal Himself personally to people who seek. How do you know this? It seems to have access to such information would be nearly god-like itself. I am just a normal mortal and as such have no way to know of the lives and ways of the gods (other then through my senses and logic and no god information has presented itself so far). This puny human doesn’t see any evidence that faith healing has ever occurred. But what do I know? I’m not a god. Aren’t you theists about ready to throw in the towel yet? (Sigh… “It’s Taking Longer Than We Thought.” Indeed.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-in-faith-healing-why-doesnt-god-restore-amputated-limbs/475741.md?page=5)