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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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From volunteering at hospice, I'm going to share that people pray for things that aren't medically possible all the time. We can look at prayer causally. An attempt to achieve a result. Let this person not die. Well. He's got stage 4 cancer. He's gonna die. So we can get caught up in this causal aspect, but there's also a process aspect. Spiritual or religious prayer is a way of dealing with grief and loss. Which is why prayers change through the process. May they not die ferments down to may they die peacefully. May we all be OK. That's not a Christian thing. That's universal. People with no spiritual or religious confession often pray just like this, almost like holding an aspiration, a positive vibe. Looking at the prayer of non-theistic people might make this more clear.