All suffering is owing to the fall of Adam and Eve into sin. God subjected the world to futility because of that disobedience (Romans 8:20). So, in one sense, all suffering is judgment. But since Christ bore our judgment, that’s not what suffering is for us who believe. For us, the groanings of disease have become the labor pains of a new creation. “We know that the whole creation has been groaning
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