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Yes He does:<\/p>\n
\nExodus 9:8-11<\/strong> (RSV) And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, \u201cTake handfuls of ashes from the kiln, and let Moses throw them toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. [9] And it shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.\u201d [10] So they took ashes from the kiln, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw them toward heaven, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast. [11] And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\nMoses also stated:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nExodus 15:26<\/strong> . . . \u201cIf you will diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD, your healer.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\nAlso:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDeuteronomy 7:15<\/strong> And the LORD will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict upon you, but he will lay them upon all who hate you. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\nAnd:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nGenesis 12:17<\/strong>\u00a0But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sar\u2019ai, Abram\u2019s wife.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nAnd:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nLeviticus 26:21<\/strong>\u00a0Then if you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold as many as your sins.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nAnd there was wicked King Jehoram:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n2 Chronicles 21:18-19<\/strong> And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. [19] In course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. (cf. 21:15)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\nAnd:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n2 Chronicles 21:12-14<\/strong>\u00a0And a letter came to him from Eli\u2019jah the prophet, saying, \u201cThus says the LORD, the God of David your father, `Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehosh\u2019aphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,\u00a0[13] but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, as the house of Ahab led Israel into unfaithfulness, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father\u2019s house, who were better than yourself;\u00a0[14] behold, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nAnd:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nNumbers 11:33<\/strong> While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\nAnd:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nIsaiah 10:16\u00a0<\/strong>Therefore the Lord, the LORD of hosts,\u00a0will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, . . .<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nAnd wicked King Jeroboam:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n2 Kings 15:5<\/strong> And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, . . . (cf. 2 Chr 13:20)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\nAnd wicked King Herod:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nActs 12:23<\/strong> Immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give God the glory; and he was eaten by worms and died. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\nAnd:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n2 Kings 6:18<\/strong> And when the Syrians came down against him, Eli\u2019sha prayed to the LORD, and said, \u201cStrike this people, I pray thee, with blindness.\u201d So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Eli\u2019sha.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0<\/span>And\u00a0wicked Antiochus:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n2 Maccabees 9:4-6<\/strong> . . . But the judgment of heaven rode with him! For in his arrogance he said, \u201cWhen I get there I will make Jerusalem a cemetery of Jews.\u201d [5] But the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him an incurable and unseen blow. As soon as he ceased speaking he was seized with a pain in his bowels for which there was no relief and with sharp internal tortures \u2014 [6] and that very justly, for he had tortured the bowels of others with many and strange inflictions. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\nAnd Miriam (Moses\u2019 sister):<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nNumbers 12:9-11<\/strong> And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them, and he departed; [10] and when the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. And Aaron turned towards Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. [11] And Aaron said to Moses, \u201cOh, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\nRomans 1:27<\/strong> and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nRomans 1:27 is a form<\/em>\u00a0of (\u201cpredetermined\u201d?) judgment (one might conceivably argue):<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n1. God says: don\u2019t do x<\/em>, because it\u2019s sinful (because He knows the consequences will be bad for them).<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n2. People do x<\/em> anyway.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n3. They then receive \u201d in their own persons the due penalty.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\nThe difference is that it is a natural consequence rather than supernatural. Yet God warns about it, so it seems to me it\u2019s almost the same as judgment (especially considering the word \u201cpenalty\u201d).\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Bernard Orchard, Catholic Commentary<\/em> (1953), notes the phrases in Romans 1:24, 26, 28:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nTherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, . . . For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. . . . And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\nHe observed that Chrysostom and Theodoret interpreted this as God permitting men \u201cto follow their own free will.\u201d But Augustine thought this was an instance of God abandoning them and withdrawing actual grace.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nIn a USCCB commentary on Romans 1<\/a>, it\u2019s stated (bolding in original):<\/p>\n
[1:24] In order to expose the depth of humanity\u2019s rebellion against the Creator, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts<\/strong>. Instead of curbing people\u2019s evil interests, God abandoned them to self-indulgence, thereby removing the facade of apparent conformity to the divine will. Subsequently Paul will show that the Mosaic law produces the same effect; cf. Rom 5:20; 7:13\u201324. The divine judgment expressed here is related to the theme of hardness of heart described in Rom 9:17\u201318.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
My thought about AIDS in particular (which was brought up) would be like all the other diseases that result from promiscuous homosexuality (and promiscuous heterosexuality): it\u2019s the consequence of sin that God warned against; in other words, natural, not supernatural.<\/p>\n
We know that God judged many sinful people with disease. My list of passages established that beyond doubt (including a NT one). And he judged Ananias and Sapphira with death in the NT (Acts 5:1-10). That\u2019s not disease, but death is, one could say, \u201cthe ultimate disease.\u201d<\/p>\n
What we see above is not \u201cnormative\u201d judgment. But there is a lot of judgment going on in Scripture, and with the use of disease. STDs are (mostly) the result of promiscuity or sexual acts that violate natural law (even if not promiscuous), just as there are problems when junkies share needles or a bunch of people live in unsanitary conditions. Natural results . . .<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s similar<\/em>\u00a0to judgment because the dynamic is the same:<\/p>\n
1. God: Don\u2019t do x<\/em>.
\n2. We do x<\/em>.
\n3. Oftentimes, the sin will have its own natural negative consequence.
\n4. Or, God judges a person supernaturally in relatively rare and extraordinary circumstances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nIn both instances, God warned not to do certain things, or bad results will happen. Then the bad stuff happens, either from the laws of nature, or supernatural judgment.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s an interesting passage from proverbial literature (which, of course, allows a lot of exceptions):<\/p>\n
Psalm 107:17<\/strong> Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
But it\u2019s not the case that everyone who has a disease, has it because of 1) sin or 2) God\u2019s judgment. This will usually not<\/em> be the case:<\/div>\n\nJohn 9:1-3<\/strong>\u00a0As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.\u00a0[2] And his disciples asked him, \u201cRabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?\u201d\u00a0[3] Jesus answered, \u201cIt was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nGod also sometimes afflicts exceptionally righteous persons, such as Job (Job 1:1; 2:3; 42:11) and as in the case of St. Paul\u2019s \u201cthorn in the flesh\u201d (2 Cor 12:7-10). Way back in 1982, in one of my first apologetics projects as a Protestant, I refuted the \u201cname it claim it\u201d \/ \u201cGod always heals everyone with enough faith\u201d \/ prosperity teaching<\/a>. Each case has to be looked at individually.<\/div>\n*<\/div>\nI think in the NT God presents judgment as a possibly imminent catastrophe due to an unexpected death. So. e.g.:<\/div>\n\n\n\nLuke 12:19-20<\/strong> And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.\u2019 [20] But God said to him, `Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\nMatthew 25:13<\/strong> Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nMatthew 24:37-44<\/strong> As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man. [38] For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, [39] and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>[40] Then two men will be in the field; one is taken and one is left. [41] Two women will be grinding at the mill; one is taken and one is left. [42] Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. [43] But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into. [44] Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n*<\/div>\nLuke 16:27-31<\/strong> And he said, `Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father\u2019s house, [28] for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.\u2019 [29] But Abraham said, `They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.\u2019 [30] And he said, `No, father Abraham; but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.\u2019 [31] He said to him, `If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.'\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nSt. Paul and St. John give us three lists of serious sins, that if not repented of, will bar one from heaven (1 Cor 6:9-10; Gal 5:19-21; Rev 21:8, 27).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n***<\/p>\n
Photo credit:<\/strong> Plague of boils. Biblical illustrations by Jim Padgett (1931-2009), courtesy of Sweet Publishing, Ft. Worth, TX, and Gospel Light, Ventura, CA.\u00a0 Copyright 1984.<\/span> [Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \/ \u00a0Creative Commons<\/a>\u00a0Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported<\/a>\u00a0license]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Formerly a campus missionary, as a Protestant, Dave was received into the Catholic Church in February 1991, by the late, well-known catechist and theologian, Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave\u2019s articles have appeared in many influential Catholic periodicals, including \"This Rock\" (now called \"Catholic Answers Magazine\"), \"Envoy Magazine\" (Patrick Madrid), \"The Catholic Answer,\" \"The Coming Home Journal,\" \"Gilbert Magazine\" (American Chesterton Society), and \"The Latin Mass.\" He also writes a featured column for every issue of \"The Michigan Catholic\": published by the archdiocese of Detroit, and was editor for most of the apologetics tracts published by the St. Paul Street Evangelization apostolate. Dave\u2019s apologetics and writing apostolate was the subject of a feature article in the May 2002 issue of \"Envoy Magazine.\" He served as the staff moderator at the Internet discussion forum for The Coming Home Network, from 2007-2010. Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. 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