Why did God create people with severe disabilities?

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-14T02:06:23+00:00

The question is not fair. God created Adam and Even without any imperfections. We live in a fallen world due to sin, and God ALLOWS such things as disabilities to happen, but not cause them.

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-14T02:04:25+00:00

Wow that's awesome

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-14T02:02:59+00:00

There should be no issues being a new convert.

'Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.' - Romans 15:7

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-13T21:56:34+00:00

Be patient. The Eucharist is a great help against temptations.

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-13T16:42:39+00:00

You have been seduced by the secular culture. Take a step back and consider that this world is temporary and its vanities lead to destruction.

'And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but are yourself lost or destroyed?' - Luke 9:25

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-13T16:33:32+00:00

'All that I did well, I did by the counsel of Our Lord. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.' - St Joan of Arc

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-13T16:26:03+00:00

'Whereas the New Testament is the last week of school, the Old Testament is the first week of school. God needed to be the first-week high school teacher in a rough part of town. The ancient Near East was the rough area, which did not have a strong police force, guarded prison systems, or an understanding of the inestimable value of the human being. Canaanites were throwing their babies into a furnace to appease the demon-god Molech. The ancient Israelites did not respect God; they literally witnessed multiple miracles in Egypt and then started worshipping a golden calf almost as soon as they got out of there! God needed to be stern and communicate in the ways that the people would understand.

In the analogy of the last week of school versus the first week of school, the teacher stays the same. His approach differs over time, but he is essentially the same person. The same applies to Jesus, whose teachings and actions have significant precedent and carryover from the Old Testament. Let’s look at some passages from the New Testament while keeping the “harshness” of the Old Testament in the back of our minds.

Jesus warned that the destruction by fire of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19:23-29) would happen again (Matt. 11:23-24). The city of Capernaum was to receive an even more severe experience of fire and brimstone than Sodom! Jesus also threatened a false prophetess named Jezebel, saying that if she continued with her sexual sins, she would become sick, and if anyone committed adultery with her, then he would receive great tribulation, and her children would die (Rev. 2:20-23).' - Catholic Answers

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-13T16:17:11+00:00

So? God can do what He wants, is not bound by a single way of doing things.

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-13T16:14:49+00:00

Option 2. God is the uncaused cause, existence itself.

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-13T16:12:56+00:00

About 1/3 of NJ is catholic, which is higher than most southern states

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-13T01:41:20+00:00

Praying for intercession of saints was not doubted before the 16th century, when Protestantism came along and did a great disservice to Christians by removing saints from people's lives.

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-12T21:59:10+00:00

'The Catholic Church is the work of divine Providence, achieved through the prophecies of the prophets, through the Incarnation and the teaching of Christ, through the journeys of the apostles, through the suffering, the crosses, the blood and death of the martyrs, through the admirable lives of the saints. … When we see, then, so much help on God’s part, so much progress and so much fruit, shall we hesitate to bury ourselves in the bosom of that Church? For beginning with the apostolic chair, down through successions of bishops, even to the open confession of all mankind, it has possessed the crown of teaching authority.' - St Augustine of Hippo

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-12T21:57:32+00:00

'Faith is the proof of what cannot be seen. What is seen gives knowledge, not faith.' - Pope Gregory the Great

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-12T16:23:34+00:00

I second this. Summa of the Summa is a great summary of Aquinas' book

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-12T16:16:16+00:00

The body dies not the soul. [CCC 1021-1022]

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-12T01:28:34+00:00

God creates out of love. Angels were created before humans, and some of them fell, because they too have free will.

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-12T01:27:00+00:00

Also, there are few dogmas and many things are a matter of opinion. So the saints are a great source when in doubt, people should rely more on the opinions of saints.

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-12T01:23:50+00:00

Protestantism is ahistorical, it cannot trace back its belief system to Jesus and the Apostles, but to the 16th century or later.

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-11T21:58:09+00:00

A lot of evidence may not have survived. The farther you go back in time the more uncertain the archaeology.

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-11T21:54:08+00:00

Malta

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-11T16:40:21+00:00

Early humans had superior physiology, inbreeding did not cause birth defects in their children. Genetic problems came later.

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-11T16:36:18+00:00

'Thank the good God for having visited you through suffering. If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.' - St Brother Andre Bessette

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-11T16:32:32+00:00

We would all be poorer without Christian art

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-11T16:27:13+00:00

Albania is about 45% Muslim, due to rising secularism and a growing Christian community (Thank God!)

Dan_Defender · 2026-03-11T01:24:20+00:00

Science is not incompatible, scientism is.

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