Well, I asked this question but I will give a response which I think the answer is and maybe you can give a different response which you think the answer is.

Sickness is a state where good health is missing and can also be described as something that is corrupting a good and healthy state of being. When Adam sinned, he condemned all of humanity to suffer the consequences of that sin, one of which is sickness. The sickness of someone can be the will of God but not in all cases because some people sick because of their own negligence and nonchalant attitude towards their own health and well being.

But again some ailment in some believers can be the will of God to bring about His sovereign purpose to glorify Himself and to exalt His holy name. God can devise so many approach to draw you close to Him and one of which is sickness and after your tussle with the ailment and your mind is finally made up to follow Christ, He will take away the ailment eventually and you will live your life like a new born baby.

God can also use sickness as a method of discipline or as a judgement against sin, though sickness is certainly the result of the fall of man into sin but God is very much in control and will never allow Satan to go beyond his boundaries in the life of a sick believer and the case of Job is an example of this.

So my dear nairalanders, do you think otherwise? If yes, please give your reasons. Thanks and God bless.

ah ah na God tell you make you no dey watch your health?

forreelinc:
ah ah na God tell you make you no dey watch your health?

not at all my dear and that's the reason I said " some people sick because of their own negligence and nonchalant attitude towards their own health and well being"

Take it like this pathogens e.g viruses and bacteria dont discriminate

Christian, pagan, muslim, buddhist, atheist everybody gets sick everybody must die one day


We are mere mortals if religion helps you deal with the fear of the unknown after life kudos to you but yeah everybody gets sick

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. - 3John 1:2

This is what I believe and what I live.
I do not believe that God will make me sick just to prove a point or glorify himself, even if some people may be able to find 'examples' from the Bible. Every good and perfect gift (including health) comes from the Lord and every sickness from the Evil One. Again this is what I believe and what I live by.

Jesuobu:
not at all my dear and that's the reason I said " some people sick because of their own negligence and nonchalant attitude towards their own health and well being"

All sickness have to do with nonchalant attitude towards health and well being

forreelinc:


All sickness have to do with nonchalant attitude towards health and well being

I beg to differ. Remember some people are born with one sickness or the other. The bible scripture below will convince you that not all sickness is as a result of the individuals carelessness but the will of God. Read below...

John 9:2-3 ==>His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Jesuobu:
I beg to differ. Remember some people are born with one sickness or the other. The bible scripture below will convince you that not all sickness is as a result of the individuals carelessness but the will of God. Read below...

John 9:2-3 ==>His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Yea not necessarily nonchalance alone but we live in a synthetic world filled with things that either have an expiry date or side effects
Think of any sickness in the world and I'll tell you how man has something to do with it

Satan inflicts every bad things on our unconscious Minds. Satan makes us sick, worry, abandon, forget, hate and fall. Satan is responsible for change to bad Government

Jesuobu:
Well, I asked this question but I will give a response which I think the answer is and maybe you can give a different response which you think the answer is.

Sickness is a state where good health is missing and can also be described as something that is corrupting a good and healthy state of being. When Adam sinned, he condemned all of humanity to suffer the consequences of that sin, one of which is sickness. The sickness of someone can be the will of God but not in all cases because some people sick because of their own negligence and nonchalant attitude towards their own health and well being.

u started well sir. the origin of sickness is Adam's sin. which means that sickness is not the original will of God just as Adam's sin was not the will of God. it was a consequence of Adam's sin. neither the cause nor it's consequence is God's will

freakthingz:
Take it like this pathogens e.g viruses and bacteria dont discriminate

Christian, pagan, muslim, buddhist, atheist everybody gets sick everybody must die one day


We are mere mortals if religion helps you deal with the fear of the unknown after life kudos to you but yeah everybody gets sick

not everybody gets sick. of course I'm not expecting u to believe it! but its true.

1Pe 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Jesuobu:
I beg to differ. Remember some people are born with one sickness or the other. The bible scripture below will convince you that not all sickness is as a result of the individuals carelessness but the will of God. Read below...

John 9:2-3 ==>His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

do u agree sir that there is a difference btw permitting( or not preventing) something and being the cause or doer of the thing?

aaccountable1:


do u agree sir that there is a difference btw permitting( or not preventing) something and being the cause or doer of the thing?

I don't get you please. Make it clearer.

Lalasticlala let's get people's response

What do you mean by will of God? Apostle Paul battled with an ailment all through his ministry. Anybody can be ill...its natural to get sick if there is imbalance in the body health system.

@ the OP I will speak using my personal life. I Once believed sickness was for everyone until I saw where the Bible said that if the spirit of God dwells in me He will give life to my mortal body and I took that scripture and applied it to my life 21yrs ago and till date I have NEVER been sick or visited any hospital for check up. I never suffer from any sickness even if there is an epidemic of it....I walk free.

Sickness is an infirmity and infirmities are not of God but life, strenght and peace are. If any man be in Christ old things are passed away...Behold ALL THINGS are become new.

It is the will of Satan and not God.. A good tree can never begat a bad fruit.

God has no will for anyone...

It just would not make sense that God's will for some is filled with so much negativity whilst others get an almost seamless ride through life..

ok

How can someone claim not to have been sick for 21years ?

Op i hope you were thought what MRNIGERD in secondary school

You must be prof in LIEING

4everGod1:
@ the OP I will speak using my personal life. I Once believed sickness was for everyone until I saw where the Bible said that if the spirit of God dwells in me He will give life to my mortal body and I took that scripture and applied it to my life 21yrs ago and till date I have NEVER been sick or visited any hospital for check up. I never suffer from any sickness even if there is an epidemic of it....I walk free.

Sickness is an infirmity and infirmities are not of God but life, strenght and peace are. If any man be in Christ old things are passed away...Behold ALL THINGS are become new.

No headache too?

4everGod1:
@ the OP I will speak using my personal life. I Once believed sickness was for everyone until I saw where the Bible said that if the spirit of God dwells in me He will give life to my mortal body and I took that scripture and applied it to my life 21yrs ago and till date I have NEVER been sick or visited any hospital for check up. I never suffer from any sickness even if there is an epidemic of it....I walk free.

Sickness is an infirmity and infirmities are not of God but life, strenght and peace are. If any man be in Christ old things are passed away...Behold ALL THINGS are become new.

Tell me with a straight face that this is the will of God.

No! But some sickness might be trial, like that of Job.

I'm also pounding on this statement: Doctors will pray for people to fall sick (to get customers), while people will pray for good health to stay away from hospitals)

so who then goes to hospital??
Sinners?

I don't think Baba God wants bad for anybody, however If there were no sickness, there would be no doctors, nurses, pharmacists and tens of other allied health disciplines.
Jesus himself is our role model, The Great Physician.
So while sickness is inevitable, the healing power of Jesus is always there for us to tap into

aaccountable1:


do u agree sir that there is a difference btw permitting( or not preventing) something and being the cause or doer of the thing?

There is no difference if the being in question is supposed to be the all powerful creator of all things.

If god has pre ordained all things then his omissions are intentional and a considered part of the plan.

DONT START ARGUING THIS MORNING U CANT NEVER UNDERSTAND THE WAYS OF GOD ITS FAR OUR COMPREHENSION.. SO LIVE YOUR LIFE WHILE YOUR STILL ALIVE.


CHEERS

No it is not the will of God.Scriptural ref: "For they that dwell in Zion shall not say I am sick".Divine health and healing has been made available in Christ.

ok

Jesuobu:
Well, I asked this question but I will give a response which I think the answer is and maybe you can give a different response which you think the answer is.

Sickness is a state where good health is missing and can also be described as something that is corrupting a good and healthy state of being. When Adam sinned, he condemned all of humanity to suffer the consequences of that sin, one of which is sickness. The sickness of someone can be the will of God but not in all cases because some people sick because of their own negligence and nonchalant attitude towards their own health and well being.

But again some ailment in some believers can be the will of God to bring about His sovereign purpose to glorify Himself and to exalt His holy name. God can devise so many approach to draw you close to Him and one of which is sickness and after your tussle with the ailment and your mind is finally made up to follow Christ, He will take away the ailment eventually and you will live your life like a new born baby.

God can also use sickness as a method of discipline or as a judgement against sin, though sickness is certainly the result of the fall of man into sin but God is very much in control and will never allow Satan to go beyond his boundaries in the life of a sick believer and the case of Job is an example of this.

So my dear nairalanders, do you think otherwise? If yes, please give your reasons. Thanks and God bless.

I think the tittle of this topic should be different from this based on the above points.

God's will for you or anyone else is not sickness. Yes you may suffer sickness as a consequence of sin but it is not God's will for you.

God tempts no one but He chastises to correct but that doesn't mean that it is His will for you to fall sick.

to me, sickness is just among the trials.....



I think it's natural to be sick......