Objection: God Clearly SENT Plagues in the Old Testament.  We Cannot Say That God Never Makes People Sick, Because He Obviously Did.

Agreed!  God did make people sick in the Old Testament, and He judges people with sickness in the New Testament as well.  This point is brought out in the eye-opening discussion, Sickness as Chastening and Judgment in the New Testament.

It was God, not the devil or his crowd (the magicians) who sent the plagues to Egypt.

It is a little too thin to simply say that God “allowed the devil” to do certain things.  At the very least, you must admit that God was actively involved in the process.  He promised to send all kinds of sicknesses if Israel did not keep the Law of Moses (see Deuteronomy 28:15-68 and Leviticus 26:14-39).

However, God does not go around making righteous people sick.  Sickness in both Testaments is described as a judgment.  Righteous people have no business being judged with judgment!  The only way you can heap judgment on yourself is if you do not “judge yourself” concerning your conduct and you are hurting the Body of Christ.  See 1 Corinthians 11:27-32.

So while God has had an active part in making people sick, it has always been the sinful, the disobedient and the ungodly who were the recipients.  (Job, a righteous man, was afflicted by the devil, not God, as clearly stated in that book.)  This does not (or should not!) describe you.  As long as you are not in rebellious, deliberate sin, no judgment of any kind will fall on you as a believer.  Thus, the question of whether God ever made anyone sick is irrelevant to you, because God will never make you sick.  Never!

The alleged reasons God makes righteous people sick are all garbage.  God does not put sickness on you to teach you things.  He gave you his Word and his Spirit to teach you things.  God does not put sickness on you to humble you.  You are told to humble yourself (1 Peter 5:6, Matthew 18:4, Luke 14:11, Luke 18:14, James 4:10), not let God humble you!  God does not put sickness on you to teach you patience.  Patience is a fruit of the Spirit.

God has no interest in “plaguing” a New Covenant believer who has been redeemed from EVERY plague (Deuteronomy 28:61, Galatians 3:10-14).