"God, who made the body, did not make illness, just as he made the soul but by no means made sin" (St. Basil the Great). Moreover, "God created neither death neither illnesses, nor infirmities. God created neither the death of the soul nor the death of the body" (St. Gregory Palamas).
"God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living. For he created all things that they might exist, and the creatures of the world are wholesome, and there is no destructive poison in them" (Wis 1:13-14).
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