Objection: 1 Peter 2:24 Means That You Were Healed from the Disease of Sin

The Bible does not confuse sin with disease, so this assertion cannot be backed up with Scripture.  There are NO instances in the Bible where God punished someone for catching a cold or getting cancer or getting sick in any other way.  DISEASE is not punishable, but SIN is, and part of the punishment for sin is sickness, as shown in Isaiah 53, Leviticus 26:14-39 and Deuteronomy 28:15-68.  Therefore, they CANNOT be the same thing.   A non-punishable disease logically cannot be a punishable sin.

A DISEASE can come on you without a moral failure on your part.  SIN is always a moral failure on your part.  The same thing can’t be both a moral failure and not a moral failure.

God could not justly tell people to repent of a disease that just came on them.  If sin were really a disease, God could not command anyone to repent of sin – but He does, even today under the New Covenant.

I can understand how someone might buy into this objection given our modern tendency to give sins disease names and claim in misleading 12-step recovery programs that a sin like drunkenness is the “illness” of alcoholism.  It is a way to shift blame away from yourself, but God sees men’s hearts and won’t buy into blame shifting.  We know He won’t accept blame shifting because He didn’t sympathize with Adam’s excuse that his wife led him into sin, nor with Eve’s excuse that the serpent put her up to it. 

It doesn’t matter how many biblically illiterate social workers or psychotherapists call sin a disease – it isn’t one.

So given that SIN is not a DISEASE, 1 Peter 2:24 cannot possibly mean that sin is a disease from which you are healed.