Please write a paragraph responding to the discussion bellow. Add citations and references in alphabetical order.

Creation: God is an intentional creator who only created good. He wanted to create an Earth where man could live without any difficulties. Therefore, God’s nature is love, caring, and peaceful.

Fall: When Adam and Eve rejected God they rejected creation, which was good, allowing bad to come into the world: death, disease, and suffering. Humanity caused its own spiritual and physical death.

Redemption: Even after Adam and Eve rejected God, God planned for humanity’s redemption. It is in God’s nature to be forgiving. Within the Christian biblical narrative it is “the atoning sacrificial death of Jesus Christ, by which God makes available forgiveness and salvation by grace alone, through faith alone” (GCU, 2018)

Restoration: Sickness and disease were man’s doing and something God never intended for us. God will eventually come again to purge evil and sin from this world, restoring humanity to its original healthy form. God does this for us because it is in His nature to be caring and forgiving. “The end goal is the restoration of all creation to a state of “Shalom” (GCU, 2018).

All four parts of the Christian Biblical Narrative bring comfort and hope in the light of illness. In creation God made us in His image, which gives purpose to our existence. Even through the fall of Adam and Eve, where illness was introduced to us, we still have hope because of redemption. “Sickness, suffering, and death are evils that plague human life, but they are not the greatest evil. That would be to lose God, to have reason to doubt His faithfulness to us” (Shelly, 2006). God promises a restoration for mankind. To come, heal and restore us from all diseases and illnesses.

References

Shelly, J. A., & Miller, A. B. (2006). Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing (Second ed.), from https://viewer.gcu.edu/UGPTQ4