Subject: Did Jesus go to hell? |
Bible Note: Hi. You wrote: "Not one time did Jesus encounter in His entire 3 years of ministry, the first person who was supposed to be sick because God wanted to teach them something" The gospels show: 'As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?" Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world." When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes, and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing. Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, "Is not this the one who used to sit and beg?"' --John 9:1-8 While Jesus certainly healed this man, he also specifically said there was purpose in his being born blind: "it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him." God had sovereignly decreed that this man spend the first part of his life in total darkness, specifically for the purpose of glorifying Himself in the healing of the man's blindness. Jesus used the blind man and his healing to teach his disciples that He is the Light of the world. Others saw the healing of the man born blind and could not dispute the authority of Jesus. "There was such a major part of His ministry don't you believe He would have been wise enough to teach us that God makes us sick to teach us?" So why did God make the man blind from birth? "No..I do not believe sickness is the chastening rod of God." Chastening implies sin. No one is saying that all sickness is punishment. Does suffering have purpose, however? What does 1 Peter have to say about suffering? Is it meaningless and unnecessary? --Joe! |