Christians believe that God answers prayers and does miraculous healings...but why does he never ever heal an amputee?

I know this feels like a gotcha question and maybe on some level it is but mainly i'm just really curious about what Christians think the answer is.
I recently watched a video where this question was addressed by a panel of Christians and i was eager to finally hear some theological explanation for this problematic oversight....i was disappointed.
The completely failed to answer the question and pretended the question was more like "why doesn't god heal everyone all the time"

God seems to heal mental illness or diseases like cancer which are known to go into spontaneous remission and help people find their keys or get needed money from unexpected sources...but never grows so much as a finger back.

So, Christians....why has God never healed a single amputee?

P.s In case anyone is interested in hearing the apologist's answers for themselves:
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RocktheHouse · M

It's possible but would that not be too obvious? And if he did, you wouldn't believe it. You would just say it's not true and dismiss it like you're dismissing the other claims.

Pikachu

@RocktheHouse

It's possible but would that not be too obvious?

Too obvious? Like turning a couple loaves and fish into enough to feed thousands? Like appearing in a pillar of fire?
lol nah, i don't think "too obvious" is really a concern god has demonstrated in the Bible.

And if he did, you wouldn't believe it

You don't know that. And i'd certainly be a lot closer to believing in god if someone prayed to him and his arm regrew.

But your answer don't really address the question because god's miraculous healings are not done to prove to non-believers that he's real...they're done to reward the faithful for their trust and love.
So why has god never seen fit to heal a lost limb of one who loves him?
Why are his miraculous healings always things that can heal on their own?

RocktheHouse · M

@Pikachu You're talking about feeding 5 thousand people with 5 loaves of bread and two fish. Jesus Christ was the only one who performed that miracle. Healing a blind man, a lame man and raising Lazarus from the dead wasn't enough huh? You wanted him to heal an amputee too? Got anything else you wanna add to the list? Raising a man from the dead is enough to convince me.

Pikachu

@RocktheHouse

Raising a man from the dead is enough to convince me.

I think it would be enough to convince me too.
But that's my point.
We're told that god can and has performed miraculous healings beyond those which can occur naturally and yet we never, never, never see them.
They're always in the distant past, unverified and unverifiable.

And yet god is ostensibly still performing miraculous healing in our present time....just never anything that can heal on it's own.
Why is that?

RopinTexan · 36-40, M

@Pikachu I would argue that the reason God performed these miraculous healings back then, two millennia ago, because they were needed. Modern medical technology didn’t exist back then. Now they do, so there’s no need for God to heal people miraculously when He can just as easily do it through medical technology.

Pikachu

@RopinTexan

so there’s no need for God to heal people miraculously when He can just as easily do it through medical technology.

People are still claiming miraculous healing. Is god healing people or is he not?
If yes, then why has he never in history healed an amputee?

As for it being just as easy to heal through modern medicine and technology, that's just untrue.
There are all sorts of diseases and injuries that we can't fully heal, cure or fix without significant damage or complications.
Cancer for example. We're very bad at healing cancer. We need to literally poison your entire body, destroy your immune system and cut out chunks of your flesh just to slow the progression of the disease.
But in this day of modern technology, god is credited with miraculous healing of cancer.
Similarly, in this day of modern technology, we still can't produce anything but an inferior artificial substitute for a limb... so why has god never miraculously cured an amputee....ever?