That is all sheer speculation. I will be so bold as to say God caused my cancer, because from start to finish (whenever the mutations – or even the predispositions to the cancer – began), it was a beautiful display of God’s sovereignty and providence. Some are going to roll their eyes when I bring up Maggie’s account* again – it is comparable because no natural laws were broken, but God’s sovereignty, love and immanent care are illustrated more arrestingly and dramatically in hard times than they are in good. Times of testing are exactly that, tests, and we are better off and stronger for them, if we are God’s children – Paul speaks to that in multiple places in the epistles.
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