"Who makes people deaf and blind?" (Alleged Contradiction #E3076)
And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
Exodus 4:11
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John 9:1-3
And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit … When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
Mark 9:17, 25
Response
God makes everyone and has a purpose for their life, including those who are blind, deaf, or dumb. Many times ailments like blindness or dumbness are physical limitations, but sometimes they are results of possession by evil spirits, and yet other times physical ailments are the results of Satan’s persecution against Christians. 1
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Notes
- Luke 13:11, 16: “And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. … And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?”
II Corinthians 12:7: “And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.” ↩