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=> Email to Ray => Topic started by: Craig on July 25, 2008, 04:55:22 PM
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Could you please comment on Henry W. Wright's assertion that all physical illness has its origins in sin?
Dear Reader: Certainly. It is an amazing thing to me how that Christians will often spend many hours, years, and whole lifetimes, researching and writing books, etc., using as a premise something that can be totally invalidated by 30 seconds in the Scriptures.
Jesus Christ "knew NO sin" (II Cor. 5:20). Contrary to those deranged heretics who think this verse teaches that Jesus was the very personification of sin. No, Jesus was "WITHOUT sin" (Heb. 4:15). Now then, did Jesus ever experience sickness or disease? Yes, matter of fact, He did. Isaiah is a prophecy concerning Jesus Christ, and here is what it says:
Isa 53:3 He is despised959 and rejected2310 of men;376 a man376 of sorrows,4341 and acquainted3045 with grief:2483...." Strong's #2483, choliy, SICKNESS, DISEASE."
So much for Wright's assertion that "...all physical illness has its origins in SIN."
See also: Luke 4:23--Why would Christ the Great Physician need to be "healed?"
Notice also:
Joh 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Joh 9:3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents [that is 'sinned to cause this blindness']: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
God be with you,
Ray