Matt Slick errs horribly in why disability exists.

Matt Slick’s answer as to why disabled people exist is so far off, it is almost reason for me to end my life now.

Obviously, it is not God’s will for people to be sick or disabled, since Christ healed the sick when He walked on earth. He raised the dead, too. This is enough to show how wrong Slick’s answer is. He is sex-obsessed anyway, as he admitted to having had pre-marital intercourse before becoming a Christian.

Strangely enough, he—as a Christian already!—said he no longer loved his wife:

Many years ago when my wife and I were newly married, we had a great deal of stress, and we ended up going to a Christian counselor. In one of the sessions, I told the counselor that I no longer loved my wife. She was sitting next to me. I didn’t care if it hurt her or not. I was angry at her for not being what I wanted, the way I wanted her to be, etc. My love for her had grown cold because she did not meet my expectations. The counselor paused for a moment and then said something I’ll never forget. He said, “What do you think love has to do with being married?”

He is not divorced, of course, but how is this even possible? Matt Slick suffers from Asperger syndrome, too …

A womaniser in the past nonetheless? A horrible thought, a horrible world!

And why am I not allowed to not like life then? Or even kill myself? Will I be saved according to what many evangelical Christians seem to believe: “Once saved, always saved”?

Hardly, I guess. Job did not commit suicide, God forces us through his meat grinder … this horrible world!

Returning to the subject of why people are born disabled, one ought not to forget that the state has its authority from God, it even punished criminal behaviour with death in the past – Christian states did.

Marriage is no “right”. Not to speak of a right to have children! – many people nowadays even abandon them anyway. Think of all the single mothers existing in the West nowadays. Apparently, children are not worth much – I was born out-of-wedlock even! Worse, had my father been given the choice of getting paid to be sterilized, he would have taken the deal, I’m sure. After all, he did not care much about me anyway, growing up with a step-father at age five-six.

Christ and the Apostles recommend celibacy anyway, so what’s the point of acting as if behind every human being there exists some grand story of why he exists? I live because of someone else’s lust, sad as it is.

I did not need to exist. It is laughable to claim that my awful, hunchbacked, depressed existence is needed. Had the state implemented eugenics, I would have been spared this awful life, which I wouldn’t have missed then, anyway; now that I exist, I wish to die.

It is certainly the case that some people suffer way more, even among fellow Christians, and the question arises why that is. Full stop.

Says Slick:

Another possible reason why God could allow people to be disabled and handicapped is because it could bring them to redemption. Oftentimes, when people are injured, they are also humbled. So they could easily turn to God in their humility and be saved. This may not sound like the best reason, but it is certainly a possibility.

It is not God’s will, as I wrote already, and some people are even born this way, they lived their life this way from the beginning. I hanged myself aged twenty-three due to depression and awful genetics and would still do it had I not been “born-again”, which means that God now forces me to live this disgusting life.

It is also questionable how many turn to God, it is pure speculation. Maybe many kill themselves or drown in alcohol.

Slick continues:

Though this may not be as heartwarming an explanation, it does have some merit. My wife, for example, has a very rare connective tissue disorder that has required multiple surgeries. She is also in constant pain. But she has never complained against God. So, through her illness, she still praises God for His goodness, for saving her, etc. This brings glory to God and, I suspect, results in an increase of reward for her in heaven.

Job was a man of God and complained about his awful life, for which God did not lecture him. This is a fact that Jacques Ellul alludes to in his “On Being Rich and Poor”.

Therefore, that his wife does not complain because of her rare illness does not mean that one has no right to, or ought not to. Apart from this, she has children and is not isolated. Job was, even his wife left.

Even a mainstream Protestant like Josh McDowell wrote that if God created the world as we experience it today, i.e. soaked in sin, He would indeed be a criminal.

Most theology is upsetting and boring.

Gómez Dávila was tired of such theological know-it-alls, too:

The heart does not rebel against the will of God, but against the “reasons” they dare attribute to it.

When the theologian explains the reason for some act of God, the listener wavers between indignation and laughter.

The impertinent attempt to justify “the ways of God to man” transforms God into a frustrated schoolmaster who invents educational games that are both cruel and childish.

It is not primitive cults that discredit religion, but American sects.

Christianity, when it abolishes its ancient liturgical languages, degenerates into strange, uncouth sects.
Once contact is broken with Greek and Latin antiquity, once its medieval and patristic inheritance is lost, any simpleton turns into its exegete.

The theologian corrupts theology by wanting to turn it into a science.
By looking for rules for grace.