One of the most fundamental errors in Christian thinking is the idea that God is the author of sickness, suffering, and loss. This error has produced generations of believers who are afraid to pray in faith because they do not know whether their sickness is God's will to heal or God's will to teach them something through the illness. It has produced funerals where grieving people are told, 'The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away.' It has produced a theology of surrender t
