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Why does the good God allow COVID-19? : Comments

By Spencer Gear, published 30/4/2020

Before COVID-19, how long has it been since you considered the shortness of life and the possibility of dying?

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The media (and others) blame God for the bad things that happen - BUT when things are going well God doesn't rate a mention. Very one sided to blame God for everything and don't give Him credit for the good things around us.

Maybe the world would go a lot better if we observed what the Bible teaches. No drinking, gambling, rape, porn etc. that would be a better place to live in.

Perhaps we are reaping what we are sowing - we expect God to be at our beck and call rather than obedience.

Great article Spencer
Posted by DL, Thursday, 30 April 2020 8:10:01 AM
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Sadly I think you have a magical God that has not adapted to the discoveries of science. Thomas Aquinas said words to the effect that a faulty understanding of nature will lead to a faulty understanding of God.

Science teaches us that there was no "primal pair" or Adam and Eve. Let's not be scared of that FACT and instead look to what it is teaching us. Namely that Genesis is a poem with a deep truth and meaning.

The cross teaches us that it people who killed Jesus not God. The cross shows us what humans do (sin). The cross and resurrection shows us what God does. ... resurrection, new life, new creativity, new relationships not limited by the past (forgiveness).

The only way humans can grow their agency, develop their real humanity, is to have freedom which permits and allows real love.

CS Lewis said that pain is God's alarm clock to wake up a sleeping world. So let's dump the magical thinking and develop a faith appropriate for 2020. Let's embrace truth and science because that reveals God. let us embrace liminal space and the metaphorical space of the "Garden of Gethsemane" in our own lives and find living God and resurrection, new hope and new possibilities for now and the future.

pax
Posted by The Holy One, Thursday, 30 April 2020 8:57:32 AM
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God is not a Chinaman.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 30 April 2020 9:42:54 AM
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Probably because he/she/it is a figment of your very vivid imagination.
Posted by ateday, Thursday, 30 April 2020 9:50:04 AM
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Who says he/she does, Spencer? You? Are you saying your Dogma is some sort of a very old book quoting mostly myth and legend, is evidence or that the allegorical sections of it have any literal currency?

A good God created planet earth with an atmosphere with double, the percentage of oxygen as present! And where not even HIV could have survived this natural disinfectant. And a crystal clear atmosphere also allowed equally disinfecting UV to keep it more hygienic.

Then there was the natural food chain that was available replete with natural medicinal herbs, fruit, nuts and vegetables!

Then gave man dominion and free will to (deleted expletive) it up! And there we and or our control-freak leaders have succeeded spectacularly!

Assisted by political endorsement and political evocation from the bully boy pulpit! Vote for anti- Christian conservatives for they have promised financial support? Etc-etc. Read the historically accurate, Pillars of the earth.

Then say it isn't so or that you yourself Spencer do not resemble in word or deed at least one of the principal characters?

Dogma is not nor ever was L.A.W!

And no self-appointed purveyor of it, has any moral authority over anyone, save the highly judgemental hypocrite staring back from the mirror? If the cap fits?

Suggest you finally desist from using the pulpit as a platform to divide us along cultural lines and use it to evocate goodwill to all men and inasmuch as you are able, lead by example as the non-judgemental good samaritan.

And while you are at it, stop with the bearing of false witness as you and your kind ignore validated science. Which by the way, is also a gift from the maker along with an investigative inquisitive open mind! At least that was the intention before the religious control freaks, decided otherwise, via absolutistic, flat-earther dogma.

Do not point to the sty in my eye while ignoring the plank in yours! Use you remaining time to advocate for unity and a change of direction to inclusive sharing society, rather than a dividing, finger or bone pointing one.
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 30 April 2020 9:52:26 AM
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DL,

Thank you for your encouragement. I'm grateful to OLO for publishing my Christian assessments of various issues. When this happens, the anti-God folks come out of their rabbit holes with all kinds of logical fallacies that don't address the issues I raised in the article.

You are correct in your observation that the media blame God for the suffering OR Mother Nature. You and I would not be interacting on OLO without the God-given breath we breathe and the ability to use our fingers to type - one finger or touch type

I don't have all the answers regarding why God allows evil and suffering to continue. In the complete knowledge of God He has reasons that are beyond my full understanding. I seek through a glass darkly.

In the article, I didn't tease out some of the principles I've gained from the Book of Job. Here's one of them:

Job 1:8-12 (ERV) gives a powerful message that provides the meaning of suffering for Job: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1%3A8-12&version=ERV.

God used Satan to test a good man to determine if Job would continue to serve the Lord while experiencing horrific suffering. Will we go on living the Christian life in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis? Suffering is meant to test the tenacity of our faith in the Lord. For unbelievers, God can use suffering as a ‘rattling of the cage’ to get them to consider God’s call. It also confirms that in God’s world, bad things happen to good and godly people.

There are 25 'why?' questions in the Book of Job. Job 1:21 (ERV) gives more insight into why God allowed Job to suffer such great loss, http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1%3A21&version=ERV

Thank you for joining OLO as a light.
Posted by OzSpen, Thursday, 30 April 2020 9:54:30 AM
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