Is everybody wonderfully made?

Well, I'm in a church with an awesome ministry to the physically and mentally disabled and I can safely say, "YES, these are fearfully and wonderfully made - fully knit together by God." I've seen a baby who had such severe defects that he passed away during birth and if he hadn't, he would have died shortly after because of his defects. I see people every day with limbs that don't work, limbs that are deformed, brains that don't function like 'normal' people and those who's ears and eyes don't work.

Who are we to say what's beautiful? Do you know that God created slugs and said "It is good."? Any life, whether it's in a 'beautiful' body or a 'deformed' body is beautiful in it's complexity and uniqueness according to God. Yes, there is much that is a result of genetic mutations or 'faults' but that doesn't negate the fact that God knits together each person in the womb. God looks on the outward appearance and God looks on the heart.

Yes, each person is 'beautiful' and fearfully and wonderfully made.

Ann

 

I would in interested in knowing some verses in the bible that you do not have problems with. Are there any scriptures that are meaningful to you or give you peace? How about sharing those with us, too. :flower:

Ironically, this verse gives great comfort to me. How about reading the entirety of chapter 139 to give you some perspective on what David is talking about in the first place when he speaks of these things. He is speaking of the majesty and omniscience of God and not the design of man.

That's because you are interpreting it to mean that "wonderfully made" means physically beautiful and having no physical defects. That is an incorrect interpretation. In fact, it is very far off the mark.

Well, He is the Creative Genuis that made us all.

....what about them?

You have confused the word design with the word made. It doesn't say that we were wonderfully and fearfully designed, but made.

Designed implies that God purposely makes people with grievous birth defects. He does not.

Made, which is the word in the verse, implies that God ordained life to occur and that life, whether it be defect-free or not, is a gift from God Almighty and is sacred and wonderful.

I have a mentally challenged brother. When God made him, He didn't say, "Well, I think I'll design this one to be retarded."

Instead, I believe that God said, "I am going to give that couple a son. Because of his genetic make-up, that son is going to be mentally challenged. I am going to give that couple an extra measure of grace to raise him and love him."

Yes, they are. Wonderful doesn't mean perfect. It means made by God Almighty and in His image.

Of course, that have been some people who didn't think that disabled people were wonderfully made....you know....like Hitler!

It's unfortunate that we as enlightened humans of the 21st century have been conditioned to call other people ugly.

What does that have to do with their being wonderfully made in the image of God?

Again, why are you choosing to equate "wonderfully made" with the idea of physical beauty or physical/mental perfection? The verse in question doesn't even come close to saying that.

Ah....the same babies who poop in their pants and spit up on your clothes and eat out of the dog bowl and drool all over everything. Yes, I can see where the logic of the universe concerning beauty would rest in their tiny little minds.

He was from the Middle East. It's possible that His nose was a little on the larger side compared to a Caucasian like myself. So what if his ears stuck out or not?

I'm sure that Jesus was an ordinary looking man as far as men of his day were concerned.