How Can Birth Defects Be Part of the Curse for Breaking the Law from Which We Are Redeemed?  It Would Make No Sense for God to Say That If You Break His Law, He’ll Give You Birth Defects.

It would be illogical for God to “give someone birth defects” who breaks His Law when the person either did or didn’t have birth defects before he was even able to sin!  Is this why birth defects are not mentioned in particular in Deuteronomy 28:15-68?  Does it mean that Jesus did NOT redeem us and our children from birth defects after all?  My wife was in a service where the minister told people with birth defects not to come up for healing, though everyone else was welcome.  Did that preacher know something that we don’t?

No, we ARE redeemed from birth defects!

This matter is easy to understand when you realize that the curse in Deuteronomy 28:15-68 was not just an individual thing, although most of it could be applied individually.  If Israel collectively did not heed the Law, these curses would come upon Israel collectively.  Take for example the “curses” involving foreigners invading Israel and carting off its produce and people.  That’s part of Deuteronomy 28:15-68.  So is borrowing from heathen nations instead of lending to them.  Such things were not related to a particular individual’s sins.  God would not send invading hordes because one particular person in Israel coveted his neighbor’s wife.  He would not cause the Israeli economy to tank for everyone just because one person cussed when he stubbed his toe.  There are clearly judgments on the nation as a whole due to sin in the nation as a whole.  While some curse components are individual conditions (such as the specific sicknesses mentioned), others are conditions (like slavery to other nations) that would be imposed on the nation as a whole.

Before you get all excited about “God’s judgment” on your country the next time there’s a bad storm, you need to realize that such country-wide judgments were not applied to the Gentiles in the New Testament.  Israel was judged for having rejected its Messiah.  There will be worldwide judgment in the coming times foretold by the book of Revelation.  But we are not in that era yet.

The good news is that Christ did not just redeem us from PART of the curse – He redeemed us from ALL of it!

“ALL of it” would include Deuteronomy 28:61, where EVERY sickness is part of the curse for breaking the Law.  So if Israel broke the Law, it would have not only flu epidemics but cases of Tourette Syndrome, Down’s Syndrome, everything on the “autism spectrum” and the like, as these are part of “EVERY sickness.”  EVERY sickness includes every chromosomal abnormality, whether named after someone or not.  Every neurological deficiency, every missing body part, EVERY abnormality is covered by Deuteronomy 28:61, and you and your children are legally redeemed from them all!

You have to renew your mind to this, because worldly thinking says, “God made this special child this way” as if He had some purpose in giving that child something that would make his life (and probably yours) horribly difficult.

The man in John 9:1-7 was born blind and Jesus healed him.  Peter healed a man who was sick from his mother’s womb (Acts 3:1-16).  Paul preached to a man who was crippled from birth and the man walked when he believed Paul’s preaching (Acts 14:7-10).  So we see that God’s will is for birth defects to continue to be healed in the name of Jesus.  I’ve seen God do it and so have other evangelists who flow in the Bible pattern for that office.

The case in John 9:1-7 in particular makes it clear that birth defects are here because of sin in the earth in general – NOT the specific sins of the parents or the child.  Jesus was explicitly asked about that issue and we have His answer in that passage.  Having a child with birth defects is NOT punishment from God for something awful that you have done.

The name of Jesus is above EVERY name that is named (Philippians 2:9-11).  That includes the names of specific birth defects and genetic “diseases!”