Big Healing Book - Terminal Illness Can Be a Gift from God

Objection: Terminal Illness Can Be a Gift from God

This is one of the deadliest objections I have ever heard. A person believing this can actually ASK for a terminal illness and Satan, not God, will be quick to oblige that request. A well-meaning but deceived believer will then disappear from the scene prematurely.

The idea is that a terminal illness could give you a chance to be a witness to God’s grace in the midst of the horrible situation and then people can get saved at your funeral. These ideas are covered in other objection replies. The only other type of person who would think this was good would be someone with a miserable life who wants to commit Satan-assisted suicide.

God’s gifts are all good (James 1:17), so if you REALLY believe this objection, why wouldn’t you petition God for the “gift” of a fatal illness?

Someone could say, “Theresa had a lot of friends at the airport where she worked, and when a terminal illness landed on her, many of them got saved when they saw how peaceful and composed she was in her suffering. It even gave her a chance to witness at the hospital.” Then you would reason that if God could use Theresa like that, He could use you the same way. Then you would ask God for a similar “gift” and die yourself. What you would miss is that God used the situation, but did not cause it. God does what He can based on what someone believes.

This objection assumes that God and the devil have joined forces and God is now a SOURCE of disease. But when Jesus healed people, they were the ones oppressed by the devil, not God (Acts 10:38). He destroyed the works of the devil, not the works of God (1 John 3:8). Jesus destroyed the work of God if He healed someone whose terminal illness was “a gift from God.” So we know for sure that it isn’t. Surely someone in the crowds would have been in this category and Jesus would have to have said, “YOUR fatal illness is a gift from God. Stay sick and die for God’s glory.” Since Jesus never had that attitude toward anyone THEN, you know He doesn’t have that attitude toward anyone NOW (Hebrews 13:8). Sickness steals, kills and destroys, and those are the trademarks of the devil’s works (John 10:10).

The fact that something good came out of someone’s bad experience does not prove doctrine. Only Scripture proves doctrine. Beware! You need to believe the many Scriptures cited in this book above any sad experience someone had.