Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
Disabilities like blindness and deafness are deliberately designed, not caused by biology.
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What current science says
Disabilities are not cosmic jokes; they are natural outcomes of biology, development, and environment. Genes can mutate, cells can divide imperfectly, and conditions in the womb or after birth can affect how bodies and brains develop. Calling disabled people the result of a “wizard with a bad sense of humour” is both inaccurate and dehumanizing. Science shows disabled people are ordinary humans with variations in their anatomy or physiology, not punchlines written into the universe.
What the text says
Exodus 4:11 states 'Who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I the LORD?' — claiming that disabilities are intentionally created by God rather than resulting from natural causes.
Three honest ways to read this passage
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As history
The text records how its authors understood the world with the knowledge they had. Read this way, a difference from modern science is a window into the ancient mind, not a failure.
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As accommodation
The text speaks to its first audience in their own terms, to make a point that isn't mainly about physics or biology. Read this way, the scientific detail is the vehicle, not the cargo.
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As contradiction
The text makes a claim about the physical world that modern findings dispute. Read this way, the difference is a genuine factual disagreement worth naming.
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