1 Corinthians 11
20When you come together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat. 21For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk
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People get sick and die because some folks allow others to starve....not because God is punishing people for their sins by making them sick.
Sickness and suffering is due to the sinful nature of the world....NOT because God is punishing people.
Why did Jesus suffer?
20When you come together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat. 21For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk
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People get sick and die because some folks allow others to starve....not because God is punishing people for their sins by making them sick.
Sickness and suffering is due to the sinful nature of the world....NOT because God is punishing people.
Why did Jesus suffer?
Paul is speaking of those who go hungry, not starvation.
God does indeed discipline those who belong to Him, and it can very severe. Sin is in the world, but it is with us still also (1 John 1:8) and there is sin that leads to death (1 John 5:16).
Ananias and Sapphira sinned to their deaths in Acts 5. No one took their lives but God alone.