2007-10-19 07:54:04 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Search the scriptures... and you will know that God is sending these diseases.
2007-10-19 08:26:25 · update #1
Wow your god sounds like a jerk.
Giving 1 year old kids diseases to punish the sins of others.... doesn't exactly seem godly.
2007-10-19 07:57:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 2⤋
The Bible tells us that God doesn't do that. James 1:13 says - "When under trial, let no one say: “I am being tried by God.” For with evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone."
This wicked system of things is under Satan's rule, not God's. 1 John 5:19 says - "We know we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the [power of the] wicked one." We are wicked because of sin and imperfections. Those are from Satan, not God.
If the world was under God's rulership, things would be much different. God did not create us to suffer, he doesn't want that. He intends to put the earth back to the paradise that he originally wanted it to be.
The questions we have to ask ourselves are "Will we be there when he does that? What do I have to do to make sure I will be there?"
2007-10-19 08:07:16 · answer #2 · answered by SisterCF 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the disease is just that.. disease. God may punish the wicked..but disease effects the pure and good as well. It is our own behaviour that spreads some diseases. To blame someone that is sick by saying..you must have sinned is like being Job's friends..remember they were wrong...
2007-10-19 08:01:02 · answer #3 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Oh, jesus christ, not another one.
Disease is not the result of some pissed off supreme deity. Disease has been around longer than we, as a species, have.
Anyone who would credit an invisible sky fairy for something like disease is severely misguided.
See what too much religion can do to a person????
2007-10-19 08:01:23 · answer #4 · answered by Adam G 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
No. It's obvious that we actually have FEWER individual diseases now than we we used to, because we've learned enough to actually take baths. Unlike the folks wallowing in their own filth back in the first century.
P.S. God isn't suppose to 'punish', remember? Remember the 'free will' thing? Tsk tsk.
2007-10-19 07:59:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If I understand you good. Innocent children are punished with cancer and other debilitating diseases, because other people are wicked. How much sense does this make. I don't want or need a god like that.
2007-10-19 08:01:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm...
Um, no. Disease is a product of mankind. This has nothing to do with god or wickedness, or whatever. As it is, there's no ore violence or sickness in the world now then 1000 years ago. People died younger and lived 'worse lives' around the world.
We just cheated death with heart medications and advanced surgical techniques. So we suffer by our own hands. Nothing to do with god.
2007-10-19 08:07:29 · answer #7 · answered by Bellicosa 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Respectfully, No.
James 1:13 tells us that with evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone
Romans 5:12 tells us that just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin ...
Disease, old age and death are not a direct result of our actions ... not generally speaking ... but are a result of the actions of our original parents. When they disobeyed, they killed us all essentially.
PS: How would you explain the fact that people in one part of the world die of a disease that is routinely cured or completely eliminated in another. Is one part of the world LESS sinful?
2007-10-19 07:58:02 · answer #8 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
God can use disease for punishment or to get your attention if He wants (part of the Egyptian plagues); and Satan can use disease against people also (check out Job); but when you consider that diabetes is a disease, and babies who have done nothing wrong yet are sometimes born with it - I don't see their disease as a punishment. I have a friend who has even wondered if the very difficult to handle mental illness of her son is her punishment for getting pregnant out of wedlock. I just don't think so.
So while God could use it for punishment that doesn't necessarily mean He does.
2007-10-19 08:04:14 · answer #9 · answered by kal2448 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
So the great plague of London (1665) was for the wickedness of Christian London.
The Eradication of Smallpox is because we have all suddenly become good
I think not.
2007-10-19 08:00:04 · answer #10 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋