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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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Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York, blames the Jews, warning them that he has instructed the NYPD to "proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives. Period".

On the other hand, he advises the blameless Muslims that, if they need halal food for their celebrations, that they are available across 400+ sites, and hundreds and thousands more sites frequented by Muslims.

What a charming, even-handed fellow. No wonder parading NYPD police officers turned their backs on him recently.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:17:58 AM
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good article Spencer. God's mercy is shown everyday as he gives people opportunities to repent and turn to Him despite man's great wickedness. This generation is certainly among the worse with their false religion (gw), massive amount of unborn slaughters and immorality. Its amazing how merciful and long suffering God is.
Posted by runner, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:36:07 AM
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The Holy One,

In your response you dumped your holey presuppositions on us. Your tacitly assumed premises include:

+ YOU DID NOT DEAL WITH THE CONTENT OF MY ARTICLE BUT GAVE A RED HERRING FALLACY OF DEALING WITH WHAT YOU WANTED TO TALK ABOUT - YOUR ANTI-GOD PHILOSOPHY.

+ He is the magical God. You provided not a shred of evidence.

+ 'God that has not adapted to the discoveries of science'. So, science is your measuring stick of what is right. That's scientism, which is 'an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities)' (Merriam-Webster Dictionary 2020. s.v. scientism).

+ 'Science teaches' no Adam & Eve and this is FACT. Which science comes to that conclusion?

+ 'Genesis is a poem with a deep truth and meaning'. That's an imposition of your worldview on Genesis, without an exegesis of the text.

+ 'The cross and resurrection shows (sic) us what God does. ... resurrection, new life, new creativity, new relationships not limited by the past (forgiveness)'. That's nothing but postmodern deconstruction of the New Testament text.

+ 'let's dump the magical thinking and develop a faith appropriate for 2020'. That's your imposition of your worldview on an issue.

+ 'Let's embrace truth and science because that reveals God'. The aletheia (truth according to the Bible) means that which conforms with reality. I'll accept that definition any day of the week but you don't seem to be affirming that. As for science revealing God, which God are you talking about.
Posted by OzSpen, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:43:26 AM
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Alan B,

It's time for you to deal with the content of my article and not promote your anti-God presuppositions.
Posted by OzSpen, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:45:33 AM
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Thank you for your article Spencer.
Posted by LesP, Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:29:23 AM
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'The stupidity of human beings'

I'll start here.
Have you looked in the mirror lately, maybe you're long overdue for a reality check.

You state that "They ate from that tree and death and sin entered the human race with disease like we are experiencing. There was increased pain in childbirth, cursing of the ground with thorns and thistles.

What were the consequences of sin-disobedience entering the human race?"

Based on what you're stated above from your infinite wisdom the consequences of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit were that women developed tighter vaginas (thus resulting in more painful childbirth) and that weeds began to grow all across the planet when they had not existed prior.

"I disagree about the origin. The great harm to creation brought on by Adam and Eve's sin resulted in the curse of disease for plant and human life."

So Adam and Eve created COVID-19?

"Until then, creation is subject to God's curse (including COVID-19, SARS, Ebola, rabies, the plague, and Black Death)."

Or did God create COVID-19? I'm confused?

Q: Why is there no mention of USAID funded PREDICT Program where they collaborated with China to collect the bat samples, isolate the viruses and transfect them to intermediate animals and then humans?

Read These:
http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698
http://vermontbiz.com/news/2020/february/13/leahy-coronavirus-and-trumps-budget

"In China, the PREDICT program sampled more than 10,000 bats and identified more than 500 new coronaviruses, including a strain that is a 96 percent match to the 2019 novel coronavirus strain."

I think you focus too much on God's will and not enough on Man's will, but you stuff this part up regularly.

In truth it was religious who were complicit in the spread of this virus, plenty of Christians claimed God would protect them from Coronavirus indeed an entire church was at the epicentre of the virus in South Korea, also many Hasidic Jews were disregarding social distancing especially during funerals, and Muslims were reminded of social distancing even by the NSW Premier prior to Ramadan.

Your religious beliefs are twisted beliefs that put other innocent people at risk of harm.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:31:46 AM
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