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Kristina_P
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Jesus almost ALWAYS said, “Your faith has healed you,” to people that he healed. I don’t see why your explanation wouldn’t fit.Is it possibly because there is greater faith among missionaries and 3rd world natives than among us? We have a (relatively) easy time trusting God to make changes to the unseen (eg, our brains, inner ears, whatever), causing visible effects (like being able to hear). But I think on some level most of us just can’t bring ourselves to believe that God would replace a whole limb–even though we know He can. Maybe I’m projecting my own lack of faith onto the people around me–but I don’t have the kind of faith that would bring an amputee to a missionary priest to be healed. Maybe that’s why we don’t see those kinds of miracles here.
Another contributing factor could be that God expects us to use the medical resources we have instead of relying always on miracles. But, I don’t disagree with you that we need to stop trusting in “horses and chariots” more than we trust in the “name of the Lord our God.”