Your opinions on mental/physical disabilities

i'm a real life 100% Lunatic. (they called it's Bipolar Disorder)
it's a disability.
my doctor gave me a life-time pass to not have to serve Jury Duty.
i guess you must take the good with the bad.
God has a plan for everyone, no matter what cards were dealt.

As someone who has mild Aspergers’s syndrome, I know disabilities can very much affect a person’s life. I think differently and sometimes act like a 5 year old, with being goofy or making loud noises on purpose. Also, I can get emotional easily.

I am of the mind set that any mental/physical disabilities cannot be cured and anyone who claims they can are a liar, doesn’t matter what background of religion they come from, this is stuff that cannot be cured and will be with a disabled person for the rest of their life. I know some disabilities are extreme and sometimes disabled people hate themselves because they are disabled, but that is why we must love them, for God loves everyone, and show them that God loves them, even if they are disabled.

If they believe in bad stuff, like supporting homosexuality, then we as Christians should hopefully guide them on the correct path, but if they refuse, don’t be surprised. A lot of disabled people don’t know how to think deeply, and can sometimes form their opinions based on how their parents raised them. I’m not saying everyone is like this, and I’m very grateful to God cause I could be in a much worse condition with my disability, but it is something to consider. I know this can also happen to people who don’t have a disability, but it just seems to happen more to disabled people, as far as I’m aware.

I used to ride the special needs bus to school and have been around special needs people, it really does give you a perspective and makes you wonder why: “Why did God create a person to be like this?”. The one disabled kid I’ll never forget was on my high school bus, all he could do was say his name over and over and make noises. He needed help to go anywhere, he could walk, but he needed to be guided along, I don’t know what he had, but I’m pretty sure it was mental retardation.

I know I used to doubt myself, thinking I’m different and I still struggle with this mindset, but even with differences, we can all come together as Christians to love and obey God, which just gives me hope, for God is in Control and is Good.

So post your opinions on disabilities and share what disabilities you have/any loved ones with disabilities. I think my cousin’s out of wedlock son has a disability, but they haven’t gotten him tested yet. When you’ve been around disabled people, you kind of pick up who has a disability and who doesn’t. I’m not trying to mean, I’m just aware of it, that’s all.

I think progress in mental disabilities come in trifling and inappreciable ways. Progress is slow. Then again, science has been fighting cancer and heart disease for generations and it's still can be fatal to some. But when I say it's slow it means it's still progressing. There's horror stories about what doctors did with conditions such as yours; especially with conditions like Bleed's just 50 years ago.

I have a family member that was born with dwarfism and has a thousand other issues along with that. I swear if we burried him as many times as doctors said he was gonna die, he'd be in China by now. But he's not. He's getting by and his pain changes all the time but is controlled. This isn't the kind of news people had just 100 years ago. The didn't have ADA accessible buildings and laws and parking lots and adaptable vehicles. They didnt have the kinds of meds you're on. Are they working? To some extent. And that's the story right now and it will be untill it's something we can fix . I really have no doubt but that even schizophrenia or schizoeffective disorder, which is controllable with a lot of people right now, will be a total fix sometime in the future. So, to say that disabilities or disorders can't be fixed, I think is not seeing a bigger picture of tediously slow but effective progress. You and I don't worry about Tetnus or Cholora or TB, Polio. Heck even a bladder infection killed people.

God touched us. Breathed His breath into us. He built us in His image. I think He expects us to use our minds and bodies the very best we can . Some like you Sarah and Bleed are tested more than me. I mostly think some people are refined more by fire. Refined and heated for a better grade of steel.

We're still not smart. Our best wisdom is God's folly. But I think He wants us to keep trying. I really do.

As someone who has mild Aspergers’s syndrome, I know disabilities can very much affect a person’s life. I think differently and sometimes act like a 5 year old, with being goofy or making loud noises on purpose. Also, I can get emotional easily.

I am of the mind set that any mental/physical disabilities cannot be cured and anyone who claims they can are a liar, doesn’t matter what background of religion they come from, this is stuff that cannot be cured and will be with a disabled person for the rest of their life. I know some disabilities are extreme and sometimes disabled people hate themselves because they are disabled, but that is why we must love them, for God loves everyone, and show them that God loves them, even if they are disabled.

If they believe in bad stuff, like supporting homosexuality, then we as Christians should hopefully guide them on the correct path, but if they refuse, don’t be surprised. A lot of disabled people don’t know how to think deeply, and can sometimes form their opinions based on how their parents raised them. I’m not saying everyone is like this, and I’m very grateful to God cause I could be in a much worse condition with my disability, but it is something to consider. I know this can also happen to people who don’t have a disability, but it just seems to happen more to disabled people, as far as I’m aware.

I used to ride the special needs bus to school and have been around special needs people, it really does give you a perspective and makes you wonder why: “Why did God create a person to be like this?”. The one disabled kid I’ll never forget was on my high school bus, all he could do was say his name over and over and make noises. He needed help to go anywhere, he could walk, but he needed to be guided along, I don’t know what he had, but I’m pretty sure it was mental retardation.

I know I used to doubt myself, thinking I’m different and I still struggle with this mindset, but even with differences, we can all come together as Christians to love and obey God, which just gives me hope, for God is in Control and is Good.

So post your opinions on disabilities and share what disabilities you have/any loved ones with disabilities. I think my cousin’s out of wedlock son has a disability, but they haven’t gotten him tested yet. When you’ve been around disabled people, you kind of pick up who has a disability and who doesn’t. I’m not trying to mean, I’m just aware of it, that’s all.

SarahUmbreon you seem to be getting hung up on that Bethel church, to the point of getting bitter about it. What's going on?

“Why did God create a person to be like this?”

That's not God's doing. When God designed the world, things like that were not part of the design. We broke the world with sin, so now bad things happen, but it's not God's fault. That would be like me choosing to never get an oil change for my car, then blaming Mazda when it breaks down.

"I am of the mind set that any mental/physical disabilities cannot be cured and anyone who claims they can are a liar, doesn’t matter what background of religion they come from, this is stuff that cannot be cured and will be with a disabled person for the rest of their life."

Then you're calling me a liar, because I have seen it happen. I have not seen it happen with everybody who has a mental illness, or even everybody with a mental illness that somebody has prayed for, but it happens. In the Bible Jesus healed people, the apostles healed people, and it still happens today. Either the Bible is lying or people get healed.

Thread title: What are your opinions on mental physical disabilities?
My answer: My opinion does not matter because the Word of God says:





Sarah, have you watched any youtube videos featuring Tahni Cullen? She wrote a book about her autistic son, Josiah's Fire.

Beth Moore

just wondering if anyone would be sharing how their disability or loved ones with disabilities have changed their life, or let them look at life differently.

Jesus modeled how we are all to live, he healed all, and modeled how we are to do so, Bethel Church members walk in the power of the Holy Spirit as we are all to do.
The body of believers are those filled with the Holy Spirit and walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, as did Jesus and then the 12 as He conveyed Holy Spirit to them, the operated and grew in ministry of healing , deliverance , restoration, raising the dead, etc. Jesus never sent anyone to the Dr.
Jesus said in these days many would have an outward form of godliness and deny the power, that is what takes place in most churches today.
Healing is available, we are all to walk as Jesus walked, every ability Jesus manifested is available top every believer.
When "churches" as we know them now began we lost focus on personal relationship as in Genesis 1 and Revelation 22 when He restores us to right and personal relationship, in the meantime those who have ears to hear and eyes to see will accept this personal relationship and keep they're minds "stayed on Him" with every "thought , word and deed" and receiving healing , restoration, favor, blessing, etc that He always intended before the fall in Genesis.
One way to begin is to understand that all sickness and disease is not something we "have", it is an attack from the enemy who only seeks to steal, kill and destroy and as such it has no right to be on a person.
I know a ministry where a young man who was once a Downs Syndrome child is now freed, high functioning, and his face is restored and no longer bears appearance of the condition. What God does for one He will do for another.

You speak of strong dislike for people who mislead.......
I STRONGLY caution you against Bethe Moore, she falls into the group you have made clear you have distaste for.
Here is a woman who speaks, and sounds good, but she twists the Word of God to fit what she wants to say, and uses phrases such as "you have to manipulate God" ( an example of twisting right there)
YOU CAN NOT MANIPULATE GOD.


yes, I will..... in time.
I am Mama Bear to an autistic child who has changed my life and outlook.

But remember this:
Autism, Asperger's, insert diagnoses name here are NAMES.......
and according to Philippians 2: 9-11

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place

and gave him the name that is above every name,

10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,

in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God the Father.

Jesus is still above it all.

here's a video featuring Tahni Cullen I mentioned above