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If God, Why COVID-19?

3/22/2020

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A truly good God would not want COVID-19 to exist.
An all-powerful God would not allow COVID-19 to exist. 
COVID-19 exists. 
Therefore, a God who is both good and powerful cannot exist.

So goes the logic.

But there is a hidden premise buried inside the argument. The premise is: God does not have any good reasons to allow COVID-19 to exist. But suppose someone has a very strong desire for something and is able to obtain that thing, but doesn’t act on it because he has reasons for not doing so that appear to outweigh the desirability of the thing. How do we know it doesn’t work this way with God? Might God have reasons for allowing COVID-19 to exist that in his mind outweigh the desirability of its non-existence?

The problem of suffering used to be a personal struggle for me until I began to realize some of that struggle comes from intellectual arrogance. Those who argue against the existence of God based on COVID-19 seem to say, “If I can’t see any reasons God might have for permitting it, then he doesn’t have any.” 

But a God who is infinitely more powerful than me would also be infinitely more knowledgeable than me. I began to realize that if God is infinitely knowledgeable, why couldn’t he have morally sufficient reasons for allowing this I can’t think of?

This is why, in the end, to believe that a truly good and all-powerful God exists in a world of COVID-19 requires humility.

A fool’s mouth lashes out with pride… - Proverbs 14:3
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” - Psalm 14:1
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