Who's fault?

[DarkProphet]

A 10 year old boy gets leukemia, who's fault is it?

The boy, humanity, nature, or God? More importantly, why?

 

[AV1611VET]

A 10 year old boy gets leukemia, who's fault is it?

The boy, humanity, nature, or God? More importantly, why?

It's Adam's fault:

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

When Adam sinned, sin entered the universe, and God backed off of His [now cursed] Creation, leaving His Creation to the mercy of raw nature, which is a killer.

 

[Proud Christian 2]

God loves everyone. Everything happens for a reason. Satan causes pain and suffering, but God will try to use it to help others. Satan caused the Leukimia, but I bet that boy will turn Christian as people pray for him, and those around him will too. It's like when my friends brother was dying of cancer. They left Mexico to get help for him. When they arrived, they went to the Church. The entire family became Christian. Is that a good example?


durangodawood, Satan tricked Adam into sinning. Satan was in the universe for a while. He took the oppurtunity to bring suffering into the world. So he tricked Adam and Eve.

 

[Marysmuse]

Whose fault is it?

Do you remember when Jesus and the disciples met the blind man, and they asked Him, Lord, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
And Jesus said, neither, but this happened so the glory of God can be revealed to you.

Assigning fault to tragedy is a tricky business. The truth is, we live in a fallen world. God created an ideal, Eden. He allowed free-will in His creation. Eve, and then Adam, chose self-will over obedience, allowing Satan access to influence their, and our, world.

God does not cause bad and sad things to happen, therefore it is not his "fault". The child did nothing to cause his/her own leukemia, therefore it is not their "fault". The parents certainly didn't bring this on their child, it's not their "fault".

Leukemia is the twisting of a natural occurence. Cells are formed differently in each body. We see it happening as people's hair comes in red or black or blond or brown. Leukemia is just one example of that process gone wrong- a world which has jumped the tracks. It's the result, ultimately, of the choice Eve and Adam made, that we ALL make/have made, to rebel against our Creator. It's no one's fault... and everyone's. As Lewis said, being a son or daughter of Adam is shame enough to bow the head of the noblest King and to lift the chin of the lowliest peasent. Praise God for His merciful intervention which makes reconciliation, and restoration, possible and available to all who will accept it.

Rejoicing in the day,
-Mary

 

[DarkProphet]

God loves everyone. Everything happens for a reason. Satan causes pain and suffering, but God will try to use it to help others. Satan caused the Leukimia, but I bet that boy will turn Christian as people pray for him, and those around him will too. It's like when my friends brother was dying of cancer. They left Mexico to get help for him. When they arrived, they went to the Church. The entire family became Christian. Is that a good example?

The boy WAS Christian but not anymore, that might have to do with him being 14 and thinking on his own but the cancer probably played a role. By the way, his non-Christian doctors probably played a bigger role in his recovery then the Christians praying for him.

 

[ebia]

A 10 year old boy gets leukemia, who's fault is it?

The boy, humanity, nature, or God? More importantly, why?

Humanity. According to the theology of Genesis all suffering and death is a result of sin. That doesn't mean that you can identify a particular sin or a particular person that's the cause of a particular instance of suffering.

 

[ebia]

By the way, his non-Christian doctors probably played a bigger role in his recovery then the Christians praying for him.

Maybe, but God was working through both. God, prayer, and medical attention are not either/or.

 

[Emmy]

Dear DarkProphet. We live in an imperfect, fallen world, When God made ALL, it was GOOD. God is in the process of redeeming the world, God is Love, and LOVE NEVER causes ill-health, or other calamities. One day even you will know the Truth, DarkProhet. I say this humbly and with love. Emmy, sister in Christ.

 

[JohnDeereFan]

A 10 year old boy gets leukemia, who's fault is it?

The boy, humanity, nature, or God? More importantly, why?

Unless he lived near a chemical or radiation contaminated area, nobody's.

The boy WAS Christian but not anymore

No such thing. There is no such thing as a "used to be" Christian.

By the way, his non-Christian doctors probably played a bigger role in his recovery then the Christians praying for him.

Maybe, but doctor or no doctor, no one is healed or cured unless it's God's will for them to be healed or cured.

 

[HeKnowsMyName]

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[DarkProphet]

Dear DarkProphet. We live in an imperfect, fallen world, When God made ALL, it was GOOD. God is in the process of redeeming the world, God is Love, and LOVE NEVER causes ill-health, or other calamities. One day even you will know the Truth, DarkProhet. I say this humbly and with love. Emmy, sister in Christ.

So what made it imperfect and fallen?

 

[DarkProphet]

Unless he lived near a chemical or radiation contaminated area, nobody's.

A strange answer for a Christian, everyone else blamed humanity.

No such thing. There is no such thing as a "used to be" Christian.

How quickly Christians turn on their own that leave. A true sign of a cult.

Maybe, but doctor or no doctor, no one is healed or cured unless it's God's will for them to be healed or cured.

Others would describe it as luck.

 

[JohnDeereFan]

A strange answer for a Christian, everyone else blamed humanity.

You'll have to take that up with them. My Bible simply says that such things as death and illness are a natural consequence of living in a fallen world.

How quickly Christians turn on their own that leave.

But they're not "our own".

Others would describe it as luck.

Then they would be wrong. People are not healed or cured of disease because of "luck".

 

[heron]

The boy, humanity, nature, or God? More importantly, why?

You'd have to look at it from a very natural perspective. There are causes we still don't know about. It's certainly not fair, but plenty of things in life are not fair. Look at the recent concerns that childhood vaccines may lead to autism. Is that the fault of the doctors, the parents, the scientists who simply wanted to cure chicken pox?

Life is full of complex problems. A wind farm is built as a clean energy source, and causes the neighbors migraines. One tradeoff for another.

Two hundred years ago, life spans were much shorter. People died in childbirth, or from the flu. An easy life is not a matter of deserving, even if we wish it were true.

It is rare to find a middle-aged adult who hasn't gone through some sort of medical crisis. Or a twenty-year-old who hasn't had a loved one die. Leukemia is a huge burden for a person to bear, but we each have the responsibility to pull together and help people deal with these burdens.