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Jan 4, 2022 · Why does God allow sickness? Answer. The issue of sickness is always a difficult one to deal with. The key is remembering that God’s ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55:9). When we are suffering with a sickness, disease, or injury, we usually focus solely on our own suffering.
- Sickness and Death Entered the World through Original Sin. On the sixth day of creation, the Bible tells us, “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good” (Gen.
- Sickness and Death Can Strike Us Because of Our Own Sin. Using the Bible again, let’s face the truth that sickness and death can strike us through our sin.
- Sickness and Death Are Not Always the Result of Our Sin. It’s impossible to diagnose the reason for everyone’s sickness, but we could certainly say that most if not all of God-loving, sin-confessing, Jesus-believing Christians who are sick fall into this third category.
- God Can Use Sickness and Death for His Glory and the Good of Others. Just because God is not the cruel originator of sickness does not mean he can’t use it.
If your spirit is separated from God for eternity, it will be lost forever. The Bible teaches that Satan is the author of sin. Sin is the reason that we have afflictions, including death. All of our problems and our suffering, including death itself, are a result of man’s rebellion against God.
- Are Sickness & Death Part of God’s Plan?
- Where Do Sickness & Death Come from?
- Bad Things Happen
- Is God Still in Control?
- Yes, God Is Sovereign
- Can We Still Trust God?
- Asking A Different Question…
- Hope Beyond Sickness & Death
The best place to start when we look at these kinds of adversity is Genesis 1 and 2. There we get the beautiful picture of what God intended our world to be. It is a glorious picture: life was characterised by blessings and everything was working according to God’s plan. Just as Graeme Goldsworthy named his book: According to Plan,everything was wo...
Genesis 3 presents an unfortunate scenario where humanity falls into sin and disobedience. So God justly punished humanity for their disobedience. To the woman he said “I will greatly increase your pain in childbearing”, and to the man, “Cursed is the ground because of you, in pain, you shall eat of it all the days of your life” (Genesis 3:16-18). ...
Importantly, on the other side, this also does not mean Christians will not experience or suffer from the Coronavirus themselves. It is possible for somebody who is faithful to get COVID-19 and die. To put it in another way: individual suffering is not always a direct result of personal sin. In John 9 Jesus condemns this logic. In John 9:3, Jesus r...
This might leave us with two possibilities: God is either not powerful or loving enough to stop COVID-19 and prevent people from dying. But Genesis 3 (and Romans 5) says we are fully responsible for sin in the world. So where does God fit in? This question hits on a tension throughout the Bible: God is completely in control yet we are completely fr...
In Job 29-30, Job is in agony. Added to this is confusion. His suffering was disorientating because he was a righteous man. He could not understand why he had to endure such cruel suffering. But God answered him in Job 38:4-5, by pointing him to his sovereignty. Like Job, sometimes we don’t understand why we are going through the suffering. COVID-1...
To know and understand that God is in total control during death, isolation and loss of our beloved ones, should be a huge comfort for us. Whatever situation we are in, we need to tell ourselves that God is in control. This should be our comfort, yes. But I don’t mean that knowing this will make the COVID-19 pandemic easy. Nor will it necessarily b...
So, our question should change from: “Why does a good God allow the Coronavirus disease to kill people?” to, “Why does a powerful God allow himself to be killed?” To this question we receive a clear answer. “He had to be made like them fully human in every way, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God and that h...
There is a place we are heading to. Let’s not fixate on this pandemic. For there is an image of the world to come, where there will be no more COVID-19. This image or vision, this future, which Christ died to win for us, is one of abundant life in the presence of God. A life without the pain of miscarriages, cancer, poverty, sin, sickness, divorce ...
It’s hard to understand why God might allow a seemingly good person to get sick or die while others are allowed to continue their dark path untouched. Whether we like it or not, sickness and death are a part of life. Every human being alive will experience loss and the death of a loved one.
May 9, 2023 · If God is good, then why does He allow the bad? Learn the biblical answer to this question and how we can be sure of God's providence. All of our problems and our suffering are a result of man’s rebellion against God.
Jul 25, 2012 · Why does God allow evil and suffering? It's a good (and difficult!) question! Author Lee Strobel looks at how the Bible answers this tough question.
