Relation of Sin and Sickness

The Relation of Sin and Sickness

3 ways sickness comes about that we need to discern to realize how to confront it:

1) sin, that is specifically something you did individually, that brings about the sickness, even unto death. Example of this is the disobedience of the Corinthians in 1 Cor. 11.29-30.

2) providentially provided by God unto repentance and salvation, not by specific sin nor unto death. Such is the case as seen in 2 Cor. 7.9-10, a godly grief (sickness: Hebrew), rather than a worldy one. The church ought to forgive such a one (2 Cor. 2.6-7) as found in 1 Cor. 5.4-5. Though a sin in particular itself does not cause the sickness, the sickness (destruction of the flesh) comes about through divine intervention.

3) natural cause from global sin generally, naturally that follows according to natural laws.

So you see there are reasons other than specifically related sin of the person's doing, there can also be provedentially accounted for sickness (for God's purposes for His children) as well as natural globally following laws of nature.

There is the application of mankind as a whole as well as individually.

Because of sin there is a sickness and death, but not all sickness is due to sin specifically, only generally, nor unto death.