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This is the biblical viewpoint on sickness:

Every person who has ever been healed has died. Even Lazarus, the friend
Jesus raised from the dead, died again. The Bible makes no promise that our
present bodies, whatever their condition, will stay healthy or last forever. In
fact, the Bible promises something much more glorious: a new body, like our
present ones but also different, a body made for eternity.


We know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down -- when we die
and leave these bodies -- we will have a home in heaven, an eternal body
made for us by God himself and not by human hands. We grow weary in our
present bodies, and we long for the day when we will put on our heavenly
bodies like new clothing. For we will not be spirits without bodies, but we will
put on new heavenly bodies. Our dying bodies make us groan and sigh, but
it's not that we want to die and have no bodies at all. We want to slip into
our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by everlasting life. 2 Corinthians 5:1-4