How Should We View COVID-19 through the Lens of Scripture
How Should We View COVID-19 through the Lens of Scripture? The whole world has felt the impact that a tiny microscopic virus can have on people’s health and wealth. No doubt it is leaving a path of destruction both in the lives it is taking and the economic impact it is having. Over the past few weeks as all of this has settled in, I have read many articles and social media posts about what to make of what is going on from the spiritual side of things. Perhaps the one that is most concerning to me is a jump to the conclusion that God is punishing people because of the immorality of our time. Is this true? I want to answer this by stating what I know to be true and offer a word of caution from presuming too much. Is this virus judgment from God? In a general sense, I can say with confidence, YES. I come to this conclusion based on my understanding of sin and putting COVID-19, like any disease, into the context of the Fall. In Genesis 3, God curses the earth because of