He wanted his readers to remember that the difficulty and pain they were experiencing was not God’s punishment for their sins or weak faith.

Does God Punish with Sickness? “By His stripes, we were healed.” (1 Peter 2:24) Jesus bore all sickness,so we wouldn’t have to—just as He bore all sin for us.

Chapters 7–10 beautifully explain that Jesus’s sacrifice for sin was once for all believers for all time (Hebrews 10:14). In Acts 5:1-11 it appears as though God killed two people to make a point.
In essence there was a change and along with that change God seemingly took away a little bit of his sustaining power and allowed things like sickness, suffering and death into His creation. Your sin, my sin, our sin, their sin, Adams sin. Whilst I would opt for a more qualified doctrine of healing than yours, I think you are right: God does not put sickness on people arbitrarily, but He can (and sometimes does) use sickness to punish wicked men and, in serious cases, to correct His people when they are going astray (eg. The sobering truth is, God does punish sin with tragedy, including sickness and death, out of love for believers.

I come to you because I am troubled by your article titled "Why bad things Happen to God's People" and "Why does the Old Testament attribute tragedy to God?" Yet the Word shows us His sacrifice was tremendously effective!

I have no doubt that God was punishing me because of my sin. They are not a retribution or punishment for sin; rather, they are a correction, as a parent would correct a child. It has a board range of meanings.

Where punishment focuses on past sin, discipline focuses on a future of more love for God. As we have already seen several times now, sin is often spoken of as a disease, and redemption from it as a restoration from a deadly bodily disease. God Uses Discipline to Draw Me Back to Himself. I’m confused by God’s response to sin, sickness and death. Moreover, disease is also often the result of other circumstances, not the least of which for believers is as means of testing our faith.


Does God still punish Sin by Sickness? Here is an example of God punishing people in the past. Although God allowed man to make the choice that enslaved him to sin, it was not God's will for humanity to sin—He is perfectly holy, His very nature being in exact opposition to sin (Psalm 5:4; 92:15; James 1:13). Although God allowed man to make the choice that enslaved him to sin, it was not God's will for humanity to sin—He is perfectly holy, His very nature being in exact opposition to sin …