Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a sexually transmitted human viral disease that destroys the immune system, weakening the body’s ability to fight off infection and disease. The body’s ability to resist opportunistic viral, bacterial, fungal, and other infections is greatly weakened. Neurological problems and severe weight loss, or “wasting,” are typical complications of AIDS. Caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), AIDS makes an infected person susceptible to opportunistic infections, which are eventually fatal. Doctors use the term AIDS for the final, life-threatening stage of HIV infection. There is no cure for AIDS, but drugs are available that can improve the quality of life and prolong life for those infected. Is this disease a judgment of God or simply a viral infection that someday can be cured?
Are people infected with AIDS cursed children, who have left the right way? What do we know about AIDS and how it is spread?AIDS can be transmitted sexually; through contact with contaminated blood, body tissue, or hypodermic needles; and from mother to child during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding. Full-blown symptoms of AIDS may not develop until several years after infection, but infected people can infect others during this time. Some of these people who are infected are completely innocent, simply spouses and children, or just someone who had a blood transfusion. From a Christian perspective, sin of any kind not only affects those who do it, but usually hurts innocent others along the way. For years, one of the homosexual slogans was that they weren’t hurting anybody, so they should be allowed to do whatever they wanted. Well, AIDS proved that homosexuality does hurt others. AIDS moved from the homosexuals to the drug users and further moved to the blood supply and then to the innocent spouses and children of those who were unknowingly infected. When those who were guilty of sexual sin became one with those who were infected, the disease was spread to a lot of innocent others. But it’s not too late for human beings to change the course of this disease.
