HIV/AIDS Scourge: The Consequence For The Actions Of Humans As Social Beings
Keywords:
Sexual immorality, Divine Commandment, Divine Punishment, HIV/AIDSAbstract
The disease HIV/AIDS is a global monster engulfing both human and material resources. The actual causes of this dreaded disease is not yet known to man, neither have science and technology discovered its cure. This study is an expository research which looked at the level of sexual in promiscuity, sexual morality and homosexuality in the society. It concluded that HIV/AIDS is the divine punishment for man's immoral behaviour. Though there are cases of exemption. Like Jesus said in the case of the man born blind that 'neither this man nor his parents sinned…' This study explored the relationship between HIV/AIDS epidemic as a divine consequence for human actions and concluded that the scourge is the direct consequence for man’s action, and has a serious pyschological effect on the infected party. Hence obedience to divine laws and principles is the only way to overcome the menace
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