Many atheists have technical and emotional
reasons why they can't believe in God. Many of these
are misrepresentations of the Bible and the real world.
There is a famous argument used by atheists, it seems to
have turned into some sort of mantra. They ask why
won't God heal amputees, when he causes so many
other medical miracles.
This question is easily answered; the human mind
is a very delicate operation, it does not like breaks in its
ability to process the world, therefore it doesn't like
miracles. When a person looses a limb their brain sometimes is
unable to cope. The brain has a hard time breaking the
connections that once automatically acknowledged the
existence of the limb. They actually feel pain in a limb
that is no longer there. This is referred to as phantom
pains, the brain can comprehend no reason for such a
traumatic loss. If the brain can't easily acknowledge the
lose of a limb, then the question is, what would be the
traumatic effects on the brain if an amputee was walking
down the street and their arm popped back into
existence. One would have their arm but they would
end up in a madhouse. Therefore, God does not heal
amputees because he knows that the human brain can't
function if it thinks that limbs can appear and disappear
without reason.
Human beings were meant to walk with God, so it
is understandable that they may be confused outside of
his presence. Jesus reminds us that if we have faith as
small as a mustard seed we are able to move mountains.
That is hard to come by as we, the ones who will face
judgment day, the Laodiceans, are a lukewarm people
who believe in God but deny his true power (as in
saying he couldn't create the world in six days).
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