Please reference your post with evidence from the Bible, academic or personal reading, and experience. Discussion: Illness and Pain Read Biblical…

 Please reference your post with evidence from the Bible, academic or personal reading, and experience. 
Discussion: Illness and Pain
Read Biblical Leprosy: Shedding Light on the Disease that Shuns, an article by Dr. Allen Gillen. 
Post an answer to one of the following questions. 

Is infectious illness a curse from God? Why or why not?
In our society, are we too quick to try to remove pain? How might pain be beneficial? (Think of physical, spiritual, emotionally, relationally?