Does God Create the Handicapped?

satan has to do withe the handycap i think he was trying to make people see that god dosent love all his 'children'

Originally posted by iceofspades
I had this discussion in my theology class and no one seemed to honestly be able to answer it;

Does God create handicapped people?

Consider this.

Think about all of the people who are touched by that persons challenge in life. The workers who help them, and watch them grow, extending thier own heart out to someone who needs to be assisted. The family who loves this person, this person themselves who grows up facing many unique challenges. Many many lives are touched and hearts are opened, minds too, by people with handicaps.
Are they suffering? Many times no, they are happy with themselves.
Being one who has worked with physically/mentally challenged adults for years, and feeling the happiness and wonder in thier day to day lives, and knowing that my own job was much more than just a paycheck with a higher meaning to it, I can honestly say that these people are a blessing and much can be learned from working with them. It is not gods fault or punishment. It is a blessing to all those who are in contact with them.

The Bible teaches that man was created (not through evolution) perfect and sinless and with free will and a perfect relationship with God.

Humankind was deceived by satan and fell into sin receiving the punishment of death and a distant and in some cases non-existant relationship with God.

Over time humankind rejected God even more and fell into all kinds of terrible sin. The reason we have death and suffering in the world is because we deserve it because we are born as sinners.

Death and suffering is admitedly a horrible thing but your physical life is only a miniscule part of your life. When you die your eternal spirit is released from your body and either goes to be with God or without God in torment... forever.

Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life. Nobody comes to the Father except through me."

Anyone who is handicapped can accept salvation through rejection of sin and belief in Jesus and when they die will be renewed by God to the form they were meant to be. For anyone who is too handicapped or too young to understand these concepts we just have to remember that God is infinite in wisdom, love and justice so is perfectly capable of taking care of that person's spirit.

For example I believe that for every aborted pregnancy God has had to receive a spirit.

The idea that God does not love us because there is death and suffering just doesn't work. God loved us enough to send his only Son to earth to live a perfect life, die for us and be resurrected so that anyone who believes in him might have everlasting life.

Jesus took our punishment.

The only thing that distances us from God is sin. God has said that if we reject sin and accept Jesus that we can have a close relationship with him again.

As a Christian I can actually feel myself withdraw from God every time I sin. This makes a good indicator of what sin is and also is a good incentive not to sin ! I still screw up miserably though but I can still be happy knowing that God loves me regardless and Jesus has covered my sin with his blood so I can still go to heaven. It does mean that I have to humble myself and say sorry to God to come close to him again though.

Jesus commanded us to "be perfect" which is clearly impossible in our own strength. When I accept that I am incapable of being perfect and stop trying in my own strength to keep the law then I can ask God to change my life to what it was meant to be. All it takes an acceptance that I'm not God, a rejection of sin and accepting that God's will for my life is infinitely better than the joke I can come up with.



[Edited on 16/5/2004 by TenPin]