A non-Catholic asked, "Was a battle with cancer due to unrepented sin?"

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Someone I know lost their first wife to cancer and she’d had affairs, but never admitted them to her husband, even though he knew, and she never admitted it to their pastors either. He’s wondering if she suffered for years before death due to her unrepentant heart?
 
I would say not to tread into a person’ s heart.
What he thinks aloud,he thinks aloud.
And also,one would never know,nor need to know if a person confessed to her priest or not.
It is in God’s hands.
May she rest in peace and may her husband find healing.
 
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What “graciew” says is absolutely true. It is in God’s hands. And only God knows.

But let’s add one more important detail. It may be worthwhile, even desirable to PRAY for this individual who died from cancer with a (seemingly) unrepentant heart.

In the end, one cannot just sit around wondering and hypothesizing about God – without a willingness to share in the work of God…
 
His question isn’t whether or not she’s in heaven, but whether or not God permitted her sickness due to her (unrepented) sin? As like a way to suffer to be purified.
 
Some cancers are correlated with sexually transmitted infections.
But that would be a natural consequence.
Did God sit up there in Heaven on His throne and decide to strike somebody dead?
No.
 
Blessings
We live in a natural world and a supernatural world. Sometimes, we are exposed to toxins in this world that causes illness in our flesh. Sometimes, in the supernatural world, things can affect our Spirits. that can cross over to the physical world to affect our flesh. No one can know. We can feel she, probably, talked to God all the time about it.
What’s a beautiful Testament to love ❤️, is he stayed w her. I pray they felt the love they knew at their beginning.
May God forgive her, her sins. May His mercy surround her and the Holy Spirit full her.
In Jesus name
Amen
Tweedlealice
 
God does not punish us with cancer due to unrepentant sins/heart. Diseases are a result of original sin; not a punishment from God.

As Catholics we don’t know who is unrepentant and who is not.

God bless.
 
Jesus would say no. Our sickness is not a result of our sin. It is between us and the Father, and punishment, if any, will be meted in the hereafter.

Btw, many Catholics would ask the same questions - what sins did I commit that I have this sickness?
 
No, it wasn’t a result of unrepentant sin. She could’ve had a family history of cancer or been a smoker. Any number of reasons. But sin? That’s between herself and God.
 
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May she rest in peace and may her husband find healing.
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Respectfully towards. A Beautiful, Compassionate, Comforting reply graciew! I learned from you today, from your sound advice! Peace:)
 
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I disagree, God does hit people with sicknesses for unrepentent sin. Sometimes it fataly and other times its punishment for doing evil.
 
Mostly true, except in this case she continued to deny it up to her death even though there were at least 2 different witnesses. In her journal found after passing away, she’d written about it at the to time she been found out and expressed her shock & dismay as to “who told him!?!” “how’d he find out!?!”. It was her own best friend who first let him know as well as an honest neighbor who witnessed & confirmed it.

And yes, even though she never asked, he did forgive her. And they did experience the first good years of their marriage after she got sick.
 
Sin isn’t just between God & self, it’s also negatively affects the whole world, especially those the sin was committed against.
 
It was throat cancer originally and then metastasized into lung cancer & skin cancer. After her death, he also discovered she’d given him Hep.C, but by the grace of God he’s one of 10% of people who’s body healed itself of the disease, so he won’t suffer from it and can’t pass it on to another, but the antibodies will remain so he’ll never be able to donate blood. And should he ever get cancer himself, then chemo could bring it back.
 
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His question isn’t whether or not she’s in heaven, but whether or not God permitted her sickness due to her (unrepented) sin? As like a way to suffer to be purified.
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God obviously permitted the sickness and resulting death. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have happened. But that doesn’t mean it was due to her sin of adultery. Nor does it mean she was unrepentant. She may have asked God for forgiveness but was too ashamed to ask her husband for his.

We don’t know the answer to that. What we do know is that this woman died from her cancer. And that her husband is worried that her cancer may’ve been the result of her (supposedly) not repenting of the affairs she’d had.

We here can give our opinions and pray for the repose of her soul and that her husband will find peace in his time of grief.

But in the end, only God knows the condition of this woman’s heart. He is the Judge not anyone else.
 
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Sin does have its consequences. I don’t know how I feel about some comments concerning original sin & illness? I guess is there any proof saying how God directs our lives? There was the story of the blind man’s condition being a curse. Jesus said,”No, it was for the Glory God to be seen.” Extrapolate, that=I.e. He received blindness in utero. The Healing shows the greatness of God. 
 I’ve been taught about GOD pruning us as we grow. How do you prune? Things happen in the Natural world. He uses that to help us grow. AHA! God doesn’t do bad things! Recall Job! We are tested to be pruned. THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH! If we chose to walk down a muddy street, we’ll get dirty. 
  It’s sad. God bless the husband and any family members. May sweet memories come forward and sad, leave. Prayer for the deceased.
Thank You God, for always being there in confusing times.
In Christ’s Love
Tweedlealice
 
Thank you for giving us basic lesson in sin and repentance.

God bless.
 
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Do we really know she was unrepentant? I can’t know that. I am “battling” cancer at the moment and have come to consider it as a cross to bear or a yoga posture to ease into. Difficult at times but simply a tool to deepen my spiritual practice. In no way do I consider the dis-ease the body has as a punishment. It is simply karma moving along in my view.
 
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