Where does Sickness come from in the Bible?

Posted by Maria Kang on April 22, 2008

There are points in all of our mortal lives that we question:
- why do people starve?

- why do people die?

- where do sicknesses come from?

I am a big proponent of holistic health. I whole heartedly believe that whatever is happening inside your spirit, will always manifest into the physical world. I feel that if you are angry, vengeful, scared, anxious or stressed…it WILL effect the way you respect your body. Even if you don’t know it! For example, when you are stressed, you release the hormone Cortisol, which is essentially a stress hormone. The bad thing about it, is that it is also the little culprit behind a lot of abdominal fat. For your midsection is the first to be cushioned and protected if something bad were happening in the outside world …so your body naturally builds around it because it really doesn’t know any better.

There are a lot of questions as to why people suffer and where sickness originated. I DO KNOW that our bodies were made to grow, develop and blossom…just like a flower. Naturally, there are roses that do not blossom as much as others, and some that die sooner…but I do think that’s God’s plan…and that somewhere in that bush, or that soil…something influenced a rose’s decline. There is SO much you can learn when you look at the smallest of living things and see how it interacts.

According to this website, the author answered some of those questions directly from the bible. Check it out.

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We dwell in a very confusing world. One fact is obvious though: sickness is real in our world and all of us sooner or later face an illness or another. Some are quickly healed, others take longer and others never get healed. Interpretations about the origin of sickness is even more confusing. Some blame it to viruses and bacteria. “If we could get rid of all of them, we would be fine!” Others blame it on genetics. “It’s all my parents and grandparents fault!” (at least they can’t blame their mother-in-law!) Others blame it on the environment, and still others blame God. Some even go as far as to blame aliens from outer space! Who is right in all this?

The Bible is the only true source who can reveal this to us. Let us open God’s Word and find out!

1. The original God’s goal for man.

Gen 1:26 “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.’” God created us on the sixth day of creation. He created us in his image, giving us dominion of this whole planet. If we believe that God gave us sickness as well, then He is subject to it too, as we are created to His image!

2. Origins of diseases.

Gen 2:16-17 “And the LORD God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.’” Here is the first indication of possible sickness and death: disobedience: “you will surely die.”

3. Physical Healing and Forgiveness are correlated.

Generally, sickness is not the consequence of a particular sin that a person committed. Sickness is not the result of personal sin. It is the consequence from Adam’s and Eve’s original sin. It is a consequence of man’s separation from God.

Jesus demonstrated a correlation between forgiveness and healing. He said to the paralytic: Mark 2:5 “Son, your sins are forgiven.” Immediately the Pharisees complained. They thought he was blaspheming (yes even in Jesus’ days there were backstabbing in the church)! In order for Jesus to show that he had authority to forgive, he healed that person as well. Mark 2:10-12 “‘But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins . . . .’ He said to the paralytic, ‘I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.’ He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, ‘”We have never seen anything like this!’”

Jesus connected His ability to forgive to His ability to heal the sick. As Jesus is against sin (not the sinner), he is against sickness as well! Sickness is not from God, it comes from the devil himself! The cause of sickness is not demonic, however the very existence of sickness is due to the evil one.

4. Satan smiting Job directly.

Job 2:7-8 “So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.”

This text is very clear. Although God allows diseases and sicknesses on this planet, the source of it is not God, but the devil himself.

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Check out my article on “God and Fitness”

“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; ²⁰you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body,” (1 Cor. 6:19-20).

Honor your body! What does that mean? What does this short scripture really, really mean? It means that your beautiful spirit is housed in a temple – a temple called the body. Your body allows you to walk, lift, move, take action…your body is what imprisons your spirit in this physical world.

We are all born with spiritual gifts; a perfect and sublime treasure we are made in purpose to give once we are born. This is in the form of many of our blissful passions: whether that is prophecy, speaking in tongues, compassion, discernment, etc. Many Christian scholars describe it as so: “A spiritual gift is anything that a person can do supernaturally well.”

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