I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you.

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.