Dear Ozpen,

Well I'm torn.

I love me a good bible discussion but am seriously put off by the copious blaspheming you are employing to make your argument, and you have already started to trot out your logical fallacies shtick which you have repeatedly demonstrated you know very little about how to use correctly.

But hey, I'm at a bit of a loose end at the moment so let's have at it. I will put on my cultural Christian hat to play.

Adam and Eve eating from the tree of knowledge allowed them to assess good and evil. In doing so it gave them the ability to assess the acts of God, to discern whether they were evil and to challenge God.

What God did to Job was evil and Job challenged him on it.

What he did to Sodom and Gomorrah was too and the flood was an evil act.

If, as you are contending, that God has sent this virus (“not as confident as he about God's justice allowing wickedness to continue worldwide without consequences”), then God is yet again committing an evil act.

If this is the case then God has shown contrition in the past. My hope is that he will again.

Just as an aside it is a little disconcerting to have such a fundamentalist piece on OLO. It will take a little getting use to. But we do indeed live in changing times.

Are you aware that GOD is actually DOG spelled backwards?

As a non-believer, I can't say I've noticed any slagging off of any gods over the Corona virus. Or the reverse.

Probably it's time to admit that all gods are irrelevant in the modern world, and in particular, the notion of blaming any one particular god or fairy or boogy-man for this virus smacks of belief in a thing who/which is willing to kill perhaps half a million human beings over some obscure point which nobody is really aware of yet. Perhaps he/she/it will give someone a sign :)

Or maybe, like in the Book of Job, god has made another bet with Satan ? Strange story, which does not show any god in a good light, merely as a bully and braggart who throws his weight around when he is challenged. And, come to think of it, loses his bet with Satan. Well worth reading, believer or not.

Joe

Reality is a more-than-wonderful Mystery!

The humanly created world is an intrinsically unfathomable beginningless and endless pattern patterning in which everyone and everything is instantaneously interconnected. In which we are unconsciously entangled.

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Indestructible Light
http://www.beezone.com/adidajesus/adamnervoussystemeveflesh.html

Section 4 of this essay refers to Adam & Eve too. It also describes the limits and purposes of all our presumed knowledge.
http://www.beezone.com/AdiDa/Aletheon/there_is_a_way.html

dear oh dear their are some puny fist shakers around olo. We know if you were 'God ' all would be wonderful. Coming from a generation of people who claim we came from slime, invent the gw religion to scare kids and thieve money and somehow claim some sort of morality when in fact that deny the source of any decent morality. Well I suppose you are only left to shake your puny fist at your Maker when you have such pathetic beliefs when it comes to origins, biology and every other fact that stares you in the face.

What is really so different about the Coronavirus?

Its quite amazing. Some books have already been published by "learned" Christian "theologians" attempting to explain how Christians should or can respond to the Coronavirus. Hundreds of "learned" articles/essays have been written too, and countless sermons preached.

It is as if these talking heads do not understand that Death Rules To Here. Or that every mortal entity disintegrates and dies and is therefore effectively eaten by Nature.

Everybody dies sooner or later. At least 200,000 human beings die every day, and 300 children die of malnutrition and/or starvation every hour. Countless billions of non-human entities die or are killed/eaten every minute.

Some more Wisdom on how to live life with Real Intelligence.
http://www.aboutadidam.org/readings/this_liberating_impulse/index.html