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1 " Beware of anyone who interprets pain caused by natural evil as a divine punishment. But equally, beware also of anyone who says that God has nothing to say through this pandemic, particularly to Western societies that have largely turned their back on him as culturally irrelevant. "
― John C. Lennox , Where is God in a Coronavirus World?
2 " Your worldview will make a difference to how you react to disasters like the coronavirus pandemic, and to earthquakes or tsunamis. "
3 " Here is the problem with our natural response to God’s future judgment: we welcome God’s intervention only so long as it is an intervention in the lives of others and not in ours. "
4 " The coronavirus is evidence that both our relationship with creation and creation’s relationship with us are disordered; and that this is not an accident "
5 " When life seems predictable and under control, it is easy to put off asking the big questions, or to be satisfied with simplistic answers. But life is not that way right now—not for any of us. It is not surprising that, whatever your faith or belief system, the big questions of life are breaking through to the surface, demanding attention "
6 " A Christian, then, is not a person who has solved the problem of suffering but one who has come to love and trust the God who has suffered for them. "