Did God create cancer?
Hi.
Welcome to today's little lesson.
We got a very difficult question to try to answer today regarding the origin of sickness,
and where is it coming from.
Did God create sickness or does the Devil have the creative power to create disease
and germs that to plague and afflict so many people?
What's behind it.
People have been pondering that question for a long, long time.
When you look into the Bible, you get some answers, but I can't say that I'm totally
satisfied with the answers that I've read or come up with myself so far.
I think it's safe to assume that in the Garden of Eden there was no sickness or disease.
I mean, Adam and Eve, we understand, would have lived forever had they not sinned.
Even after they sinned, there was still the potential for them to live forever, and that's
why God forbade from to getting access to the tree of life, lest they eat and live forever.
Can't believe that sickness and disease was originally part of God's plan, so it came
as a result of the fall and came as a result of sin.
We certainly see sickness and disease characterized in the Bible as something that's negative,
something undesirable, something that is associated often times as judgment for sin, but not all
times is it, like in the case of Job.
Job suffered maladies, and it wasn't because of his sin at all, was it?
We see that the basic attitude of Jesus towards sickness and disease was one of compassion,
and love, and healing because he healed all who came to him asking for healing.
He was the exact representation of the Father's nature.
He only did what the Father told him to do and what he saw the Father do.
So, we get the idea that God's a healer.
Of course, we get that in the Old Covenant as well, the many times that God healed people
and God even revealed himself as Jehovah Rapha to the people of Israel, the lord who heals
you.
Let's go back to the original question.
What about the origin of sickness and disease?
Still isn't so clear because do we believe that the devil has the power to create germs?
God has placed into all of our bodies these amazing immune system, so God has designed
us to fight these very things that invade our bodies, sometimes make us ill, and that
our immune systems often triumph.
Fact, most times, isn't it true, our immune system triumphs over the sickness, and the
natural healing process that God put in our body.
You cut your finger, you know, and a few days later, it's not cut any longer.
It's healed itself.
It's a regenerative abilities of our body are just absolutely amazing.
It is difficult to believe that sickness has its origin from God, but yet nobody can deny
that it's been allowed and permitted by God, right?
Or else it wouldn't exist at all.
I don't know if anyone has come up with, as I said, with some completely satisfactory
answer, because if God created sickness, gave the Devil some degree of authority over it
... You know, because we can read in the scripture about like that woman who was bent over, the
old woman.
I think it's Luke chapter 16.
But, Jesus heals her.
Then, he says, "Should this woman not have been healed?
She's a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has afflicted all these years."
Jesus gave the blame to Satan.
In acts, I think it's chapter 10, around verse number 35, Peter's preaching and says, "You
know how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth, how we went about doing good and healing all those
who are oppressed by the Devil."
So there's two testimonies in scripture crediting Satan.
Paul, this is a mysterious scripture in some sense, but he talked about a guy that is a
sinner within the church and bringing a stain and reproach on the church.
"We've decided to turn this one over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh that his
spirit might be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus."
All right, so the best I can do in a short answer is that God has revealed himself, generally
speaking, as the healer.
There's great reason, if you're afflicted with a sickness, to have hope, and to go beyond
hope and to have faith for God to heal you.
"Is any among you sick?"
Paul wrote ... Excuse me.
James wrote in his epistle, "Let him call for the elders of the church.
Let them pray over him anointing him with oil.
The prayer of faith will restore the one who is sick."
Now he goes on, "And if has commit any sins, they shall be forgiven him."
Again, as I mentioned earlier, we do see some association between sin and sickness.
Whenever I've been sick, it's always caused me to do a spiritual check-up, and to see
have I opened the door to discipline of the Lord somehow.
Whether it's God who's actively put this sickness on me, or whether it's God who passively allowed
Devil to put this sickness on me, it really doesn't make a lot difference, does it?
The point is that God wants me healed, and perhaps a condition of my being healed is
that I need to confess something.
Remember the guy lowered through the roof?
Jesus, the first thing said to him was, "Your sins are forgiven you."
He took care of the most important thing first, and perhaps the guy was doubting that Jesus
would heal him because he was so conscious of how he messed up, like all of us have messed
up.
Jesus reassured him his sins were forgiven.
Then, that gave them confidence to say, "Well, if my sins are forgiven, what would hold God
back from healing me?"
Well, that's a faith builder, isn't it?
It sure is.
Now, there are those within the church who criticize anybody who speaks positively about
healing, divine healing, and encouraging people to have faith.
But yet, goodness, there's so many scriptures where Jesus, for example, said to people who
he healed, "Your faith has healed you."
So if they had not have had faith, it would not have been healed.
As ministers of the New Testament, we ought to be encouraging people to trust God for
their healing, and also to gently say to them without ... making sure, first of all, there's
not a long in our eye, that there is a possibility that if you're suffering the discipline of
the Lord, that you first need to care of something, all right?
And that is biblical.
All right.
I have a little bit more to say about this in our next episode.
Thanks for joining me.
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