Please reference your post with evidence from the Bible, academic or personal reading, and experience. Discussion: Illness and Pain Read Biblical...

 Please reference your post with evidence from the Bible, academic or personal reading, and experience. 

Discussion: Illness and Pain

Read Biblical Leprosy: Shedding Light on the Disease that Shuns, an article by Dr. Allen Gillen. 

Post an answer to one of the following questions. 

• Is infectious illness a curse from God? Why or why not?
• In our society, are we too quick to try to remove pain? How might pain be beneficial? (Think of physical, spiritual, emotionally, relationally?