Is AIDS a judgment from God?
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Because AIDS can be contracted in many ways, it would be a mistake to assume that everyone with AIDS is suffering the consequences of God’s judgment on behavior. At the same time, we ought not to ignore the fact that in the Old Testament God warned His people that violating His law would result in disease, sickness, and plague: \n\n\n“If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, then the LORD will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed” (Deuteronomy 28:58-61). \n\nRomans 1:21-32 also implies the serious physical and spiritual consequences of sexual immorality: \n\n\n“For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. . . . Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion (Romans 1:21-32 NIV). \n\nAIDS, along with many other sexually transmitted diseases, only reaches epidemic proportions when large numbers of people depart from biblical standards for behavior. This doesn’t mean that individual AIDS-sufferers are under God’s judgment, but it does mean that the cultures of the world—including the dominant Western secular media culture that is currently exporting the irresponsible and culturally arrogant ideals of a “sexual revolution”—need to think carefully about whether the consequences of a choice-related disease is pointing to deeper moral and spiritual issues.
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Each of us are judged on what we did with the time, health and wealth that God blessed us with. If we had a hand in harming our environment, we will be judged accordingly, and if we did our best to help our environment, we will be judged accordingly. No one will have to worry about being held accountable for another's sins, and no one but you can account for your own self.
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I want to know who are any of you to judge this person. I bet if we followed you'd have some issues also. The first person who posted is right. And just so you know smartass a baby is not automatically born with HIV if the mother has it.
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Have you ever watched a loved one wither away in their hospital bed from a common cold because the AIDS virus made their immune system so weak? If not, you should be grateful. I watched my uncle sit there and wither away to skin and bones because of AIDS. Please educate yourself more on this subject and be more respectful about it.
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God can touch or heal according to his will, and often does.\nWe cannot know all things as God does - but he never wills harm to anyone, it is not possible for him because of who he is.\nThe reason we have awful things, wars, hunger, poverty, mental illness - is because we chose to rebel against God, to sin, and we live in the consequences of sin - in a broken world. Again, the terrible things of this world are not God's desire or will.\nHe would not create things to harm them - his way is love, forgives, grace, mercy.
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No disease is accepted by anyone if their is a cure available.but the irony about AIDS is that Its not curable but completely preventable...thats why the interventions are targeted to youth to make them acknowledged so that they can prevent it..
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I think your question is very interesting. What the world is coming to is very involved in what you are asking as well as other sins.\n\nIt matters a great deal whether a person is homosexual or not. The Bible says it is an abomination to God. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for their sins, one of their most predominent being homosexuality.\nyou can read more here :\nhttp://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5003/5003_01.asp\n\nThe legalization of abortion, homosexuality etc is going to lead to the judgement of our country make no mistake. Some judgement has already come.\n\nAs far as what the world is coming to.The Bible has the answer to that also. \n2Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.\n 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,\n 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,\n 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;\n 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.\n\nYou can't deny that is a very good description of the world we live in.\n\nHope is found in the Lord Jesus Christ. He died for our sins and arose the third day that we might be saved. God's wrath and judgement is coming to this earth - only those who have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ will escape that wrath.\nRevelation 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?\nIf you really want to know more about what the world is coming to read this :\nhttp://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5025/5025_01.asp\n\nAs far as being put here for a reason - you are right - we were put here for a reason. The Bible tells us in Revelation 4:11, that reason is to please God. If one is living in sin that is not pleasing to God. Hebrews 11:6a tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God. Faith in what?  Faith in God's Word, in the Lord Jesus Christ. The only way to please God is to be reconciled with Him through the blood of the Lord Jesus. When we trust Him as our Saviour that pleases God. When we live our lives according to His Word that pleases God. That is our purpose on this earth.
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If we are going to invoke Leviticus to condemn homosexuality then we must also remember that the Bible calls for the execution of homosexuals. Not only that but it calls for the stoning of disobedient children and adulterers. I wish that fundamentalist/evangelical Christians would not be so selective in their application of scripture. And to the guy who says that 80% of homosexuals have AIDS? Where on earth did you get such a ridiculous statistic? I've never heard such rubbish in all my life.
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I think God judges us by our actions. I mean afterall we can't always control our thoughts. Sometimes they just come from out of nowhere. But it's how we react to those thoughts that I feel God judges us by. And yes your question was very clear.
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They could be.  A person with AIDS has a suppressed immune system, so they are more prone to getting infections, diseases, or cancers than a person without AIDS.  Actually a lot of people with AIDS die not from AIDS itself, but from other dieases that they contract...their immune system is so weak that they can't fight it off and they die from it.
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Only God can judge someone. Never try to judge someone without taking a look at yourself cause everyone has at least one time made a mistake in there life no one is perfect.
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Absolutely not, god gives us free will to make choices and if firmly believe that's where it ends and Thur those choices he knows what the outcome will be for us.  If you are not careful and participate in the things that could cause such a disease than you suffer a possible consequence.  Hope this was of some help to you.
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Now is the time to turn the rest of your life over to Christ. In doing so you will no longer fear death .So it will not matter if you have aids or not.
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I know a sister who was HIV positive tested in three different hospital. During a deliverance crusade this sister was prayed for and God operated a miracle of divine healing on her.She went back to these hospital and was tested again and truely she was HIV negative. What a miracle God!. This sister went to the fourth hospital and truely she is healed.The proves are there. The doctors who made the test plus the papers.
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It is bibical but God isn't causing them.  He could see the future and what man was going to do to the earth.\nHe told prophets to tell the people what was going to happen.  We are living in the last days.  Wickedness is everywhere.  It is sad that Indonesia had an earthquake.\n5 maybe 6 thousand will die.  This year already 25 million have died from AIDS. In Indonesia alone.  It was said a minute ago on the internet they have lost the war against aids. 40 million more have the disease.\nHow is that spread?  Was that gods fault?  No but he could forsee the future and said, great pestilences.
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Ever hear of AIDS? Where do you think it came from? Do you REALLY believe that it has something to do with monkeys from Africa? Any chance that the U.S Government had "something" to do with it,but it did`nt take off like expected,in order to decrease the population? Go to www.infowars.com to learn more!
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I dont think it was fair, they basically dismissed the witness completely.  The fact that he had unprotected sex with a person with HIV shows his skills as a leader. Shit they should but a shower in every city. It would be the cheapest solution to the AIDS epademic. If he was charged, there would be riots. I wonder if he's got AIDS? Heidi