Do you think Satan is the cause of disease?

Question

Just curious, cause I know a child who is 3, never sinned a day in his life, and he had a tumor that almost went into his brain. My inclination is, and by no means am I a doctor, but my inclination is that this was caused by some medical reason and that Satan had nothing to do with it.

So, just curious what all you good people thought about that, the boy is now in chemotherapy at the age of 3, so somehow not understanding God or Satan, I really doubt this is Jesus or God the creator or Allah testing this child.

Your thoughts welcome

Answer 1

Yes, Satan is the cause of all diseases, and Santa and Mrs. Claus are the causes of all the world's happiness. And the tooth fairy is the cause of all pain. And the Easter Bunny is the cause of all death. There are scientific and medical reasons for ALL diseases, we just don't know the reasons, remedies, and cures for them yet! Here we are again, reverting back to the notion of some mystical, magical, other-worldly reason for life's mysteries, instead of intense thought and research!! We humans will NEVER learn!!

Answer 2

There is no God, Satan, Allah, or the bogeyman. All living things are prone to diseases, even plants and animals. Does "original sin" cause crops to die of blights? Please! All this nonsense of believing that there are invisible entities causing sickness is so outdated and stupid. It comes from a time when nobody knew anything about how the body worked, how nature worked, or what caused disease and illness. Even an everyday cold was attributed to the workings of some unseen force. I should think that, with medical technology being so far advanced beyond anything that existed in biblical times, people would know better and would abandon silly concepts of sin and evil and devils causing sickness.

I notice that the parents took their child to the hospital for chemo and other treatments. Why didn't they simply pray to God to take away the tumor and save the poor child's life? I can answer that: because it would do no good. In times past, he would have died long ago, and all the prayers in the world wouldn't have saved him. Today is no different. With prayers alone, and no medical treatment, that boy would be dead, and his parents know it. God either does not care, or he doesn't exist. Take your pick.

Answer 3

Scripture says the whole earth is groaning under the curse of sin. Death (and that which causes it: sickness) is the wages of sin. Satan is the author of sin.

The Bible also says that the sins of the fathers are passed down to the third and fourth generations of them that hate God.

God doesn't do it. It's a natural result.
Unthinking people keep it going. Say for example, that a dad smokes in the house while the mother is pregnant. That little baby will suffer. Sad, but true. Or say someone gets drunk and causes an accident where the dad of the family loses his life. The whole family suffers forever, but they didn't cause it. Humanity causes humanity to suffer. God doesn't. If He jumped in every time we did something wrong, we would not have the freedom to choose good or evil. Everything would only be (forced) good. That's against God's way. His government is only based on free choice.

God did NOT create sin, sickness or death. He does, however, give us the freedom to choose whether or not we will perpetuate those things by how we live.

We can't blame God or Jesus, because if He created it, Jesus would not have gone around wiping it out and healing everybody like He did when He was on this earth. You don't fight against that which you create.

Answer 4

My goodness sweetie,

I am truly sorry for what this child is going through and also for what everyone is telling you.

From the BIBLE and what it teaches DIRECTLY:

Job 34:10 says -  Therefore, YOU men of heart, listen to me.
Far be it from the [true] God to act wickedly,And the Almighty to act unjustly!

Here its a simple, but yet powerful statement to assure us that GOD NEVER causes what is BAD.

People blame God for there suffering because they do not understand an important Bible truth. They believe that God is the ruler of this world. But HE'S NOT!!!

Who? Its Satan the Devil.
1 John 5:19 - tells us "The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." <----- Now does that even sound like God? Come on....... Of coarse that's Satan. So, Satan is the ruler of this world that we are living in TODAY. Satan is hateful, deceptive, and cruel. So the world is under his influence, is full of hatred, deceit, and cruelty. That is one reason why there is so much suffering, such as this 3-year old boy.

2ndly, Sinful humans tend to struggle for dominance, and this results in wars, oppresion, and suffering. You can find that out at Ecc. 4:1 and 8:9.

3rdly is found at Ecc. 9:11 - it says,
I returned to see under the sun that the swift do not have the race, nor the mighty ones the battle, nor do the wise also have the food, nor do the understanding ones also have the riches, nor do even those having knowledge have the favor; because time and unforeseen occurrence befall them all.

So, in a world without God as a protective RULER, people may suffer because they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I'll end by saying....... God is not responsible for the wars, the crimes, the oppresion, illnesses, or even the natural disasters that causes people to suffer.

I truly hope this information helps a bit for you. If you would like more information on what I mentioned please feel free to send a message. Take Care and my prayers are with the 3-year old

Answer 5

God is the Giver of all good things. When He sent His Son, Jesus, here on earth, Jesus went about healing the sick, and even raising the dead. God is far more powerful than Satan. However, when Satan "fell like lightning", a third of the angels fell with him, and Satan is the prince of this realm. He comes to steal, kill and destroy. God does not cause disease, but sometimes he uses a circumstance to perform a miracle. A child is innocent and there are some things we will never understand until we get to heaven. I do believe in seeking medical treatment, along with prayer. Prayer and faith can move mountains. I know because I was healed last year of an illness that is rarely survived. Truly, it was a miracle! If you haven't already, call your church and start prayer chains (as many as possible). "One can put a thousand to flight, two - ten thousand". God hears our prayers and knows our heart. May He strengthen you and give you peace. I'm joining you in prayer.

Answer 6

IF you're a christian then you believe God created everything, including satan, the earth, people, and diseases. Satan had no creationist powers and made nothing. He has waged eternal war against man but only through temptation and trickery;nothing like biological warfare or anything. elieving that, it lays premise to the answer that G od made disease. Why? I believe population control, mainly. To keep our population in check. Nature has great balances to keep us in line, food, land space, resources and the like. Diseases, virusses and bacteria are here to keep the human population down. Not coming from a chritian standpoint, I still believe that Nature has a great handle on things and guiding hand for life on the planet and that bacteria, and diseases would have the same purpose, without the existence of a God. In my opinion, medically, things happen and Satan had nothing to do with it. Death is natural, and needed. Children everywhere contract illnesses or are born genetically abnormal, it's just life. That's the only way to explain it really. It's a consequence of living on planet earth. Humans have a good handle of things and a lot of power over our environment, but, we aren't sitting in any God's chair.

Answer 7

Satan is not the cause of disease. Sin is the cause.. The enemy wants us to choose death (sin) over Life (God). But everything happens for a reason. The same reason skin dies for a new life. We are born into sin so the enemy has the upper hand on us. To make us think diffently about such things. Just know that God is in control and he gave us the life in the first place.

Answer 8

Satan is a fiction created to keep the religious minded in line. Without Satan as a fear factor, people would stay away from churches in droves, but because we have multi-generational fear imbedded in our psyches by priests and imams, this whole Satan charade continues - much to the eternal shame of our species.

For explanations, Hank, read Journey of Souls by Michael Newton, PhD. You won't find mention of God or Satan between the pages, but you may well gain some broader understanding of the human condition and why children suffer.

Answer 9

there are many new children having various diseases, this can be due to the various things that affect the mother before the child was born, for example look at the children born after hiroshima in japan or belarus as well, some are happening in every other part of the world that the conclusion is naturally lack of a particular element or the other

Answer 10

its not a test for the child, obviously. It maybe a test for someone else.

Without Ryan White in the 80's would USA have taken AIDS so seriously, and have educated themselves as far as how it is contracted?

Maybe it is something along them lines. Maybe not. Maybe God wants to reach a nurse in the hospital, that will go on to save a bunch of people. Noone ever knows why things happen the way they do.