Why does God allow disabilities? What is disability theology and what are the implications of this for the church?

In what sense will disabilities be healed when we meet the Lord when he returns?

We'll answer these questions and more with our guest, Dr. Chris Ralston. Chris is a Talbot philosophy grad.

It's going on to distinguish himself with several master

degrees in the PhD. But we're looking forward to this. I'm your host, Scott Ray.

And I'm your co-host, Sean McDowell. This is Think Biblically from Talbot School of Theology,

Biola University. Chris, welcome. Really glad to have you with us. I remember when you were a student

here, and then you've gone on. You went on, got a

PhD at Rice in bioethics, and I've worked for Johnny and friends for a while. But one of the

things, you have an article that tells your personal story entitled, Why Am I Disabled? So tell us a bit

of that story. Sure. Sure. Well, first of all, it's great to be here.

Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. So I came to faith in Christ as a little boy,

which was really the most important decision in my life. And then I've been married for about

seven and a half years, which is the second most important decision of my life, as well as probably the most brilliant decision I ever made.

I've met your wife.

I can attest to that.

Yes, exactly.

So I definitely married up.

Let's just put it that way.

So it's a really a big part of my story is that I'm alive today because of the choice, the decision that my mom made

to choose life for me because even though she knew that I would be born with disabilities,

in utero while she was pregnant, I was exposed to rebella or German measles, that is often called.

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