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Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick

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Law <strong>of</strong> Retribution: God's<br />

Justice<br />

● Ancient Hebrew <strong>the</strong>ology understood any and all<br />

suffering (including <strong>the</strong> inability to have children)<br />

as a punishment for sins.<br />

● Death, illness, "bad luck", famine, drought, natural<br />

disasters, slavery, exile, barrenness, birth defects,<br />

etc. You name it, sin caused it.<br />

● If sinned caused it, <strong>the</strong> ancients believed you<br />

deserved your troubles somehow. God caused <strong>the</strong><br />

trouble to strike you, but you earned it. Your<br />

disobedience resembles that <strong>of</strong> Satan, and so you<br />

become his ally, not God's.

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