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Survey of Doctrine: Topic: Sin/degeneration
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The main thrust of the discussion on sin in this doctrine is the fact there is not necessarily a one-to-one relationship between sickness and sin. Sickness can be caused by a number of different things. Generally the greatest causes are:
- a polluted environment [air, water, food, earth].
- our disregard for obvious physical principles of health [nutrition, sleep, exercise].
- inherited illnesses and diseases.
- injury and accident.
The act of healing takes place when we are made whole from the result of these above-listed factors. If and when sin is involved and as a separate act that is in addition to the miracle of healing, we are forgiven our sins. It is not always possible to determine if a current illness is the result of sin.
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Rather than healing being the forgiveness of sin, Jesus
used His power to heal in order to prove that He also
had the power to forgive sin.
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The
miracle of healing physically represented a restorative
process in which something unclean and broken was
supernaturally made clean and whole.
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Mankind has so polluted the environment and human beings
so often ignore the basic rudiments of health that
imbalances occur, with sickness and disease the natural
result.
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To
the degree that a person disregards the obvious physical
principles of health, such as proper nutrition, adequate
sleep and rest, a positive mental outlook, etc., is
generally the degree to which one suffers ill health.
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Sickness is the general result of violating the
principles of health, or perhaps the direct result of a
person's own sin (Matthew. 9:1-7; June 5:14). At other
times, sin is not involved; and the illness or infirmity
is inherited (John 9:2) or the result of injury or
accident (Luke 13:1-5).
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Whenever sin is involved, healing includes the
forgiveness of that sin (Matthew 9:1-7).
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Not
all illness is the result of sin.
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The
Bible nowhere speaks of "physical sin."
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The
biblical subject of sin comes under ethical, moral or
mental categories-and are all, therefore, spiritual in
nature.
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It
is not always possible, of course, to discern when
illness or injury is the result of sin.
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To
be sick, therefore, is not necessarily to have sinned.
Sickness is sometimes the result of sin and healing
sometimes includes the forgiveness of sin.
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Jesus'
healing demonstrated to the world was His power to
forgive sin, and, ultimately, to resurrect the body from
the dead.
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Conclusion: Key points:
- Mankind has polluted the planet in its soil, water, air and food. Sickness is a result.
- Not all sickness is the result of sin.
- It is not always easy to determine if a current sickness is the result of sin.
- If and when sin is involved and as a separate act that is in addition to the miracle of healing, we are forgiven our sins.
- The Bible no where speaks of physical sin. Sin comes under ethical, moral or mental categories.
- Jesus' healing demonstrated to the world was His power to forgive sin, and, ultimately, to resurrect the body from the dead.
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