Good lunchtime or good evening, depending on when you read my question 😃, this question goes to all believers of the 3 world religions. Do you think that people with pre-existing illnesses, allergies and / or autoimmune diseases are cursed by God, it serves as a punishment or a test?
I watched the movie "Eli" on Netflix, in which a boy is allergic to everything and in the end it turns out that his real father Lucifer, Mephisto, is Satan himself.
Sure it's just a movie, but what do you think? Do you believe that these people have been punished or tested by God?
No. Definitely not.
Did you know, by the way, that children in families with a dishwasher are more likely to have allergies than children in families without a dishwasher? Apparently the dishwasher washes too hygienically.
The theory has often been put forward that allergies have something to do with the fact that our immune system does not have enough correct germs to fight, then it turns against us.
No, I don't believe in a punishing God.
As a Deist, I can only imagine God as the origin behind the creation of time, space and matter. But that was it (largely).
I do not believe in a divine test.
It is as it is and it comes as it comes. This is.
Who claims to receive special treatment from God? This also includes suffering or wealth.
Everyone has to carry their own package, test? What for? God knows everything anyway, all we have to do is hold on and carry on.
There's no Satan.
The whole world and our life is a test. The following verse is best used: "And verily, We will test you with fear and with hunger and loss of property and human life and fruit; yet proclaim salvation to the steadfast." (Surat Bakara, [2: 155]) "Blessed is He in Whose hand is lordship and Who has power over all things; Who created death and life to test who of you does best. And He is Exalted, the Forgiving. " (Surah Mulk, [67: 1] [67: 2])
There may even be other reasons:
Joh9 And Jesus went by and saw a man who was born blind.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?
3 Jesus answered, Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but the works of God should be revealed in him.
4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; the night comes when no one can work.
5 As long as I'm in the world, I'm the light of the world.
6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made it into paste, and put the paste on the blind man's eyes
7 and said to him, Go to the pool of Siloam - which is translated: Sent - and wash yourself. So he went and washed and came back seeing.