How do Christians manage to divert a question about viruses with "the fall"?

Question

Blame Adam and Eve, fine. But who created these life forms and micro-organisms? Did they create themselves out of materialized "evil"?

You try to blame everything on "the fall" and say the earth was left 'susceptable' to "bad" things???? But this is nothing but a copout since you are avoiding the ultimate question of who created these life forms,
since they are life forms, and God is the only one to be credited as 'creator'.

Or would this be a circumstance where you would have to concede it's more evolution which has to do with the mutation of viruses and bacteria rather than God or the devil?

So if it's just "nature", than why does God step in for a church revival but he can't seem to change 1 tiny particle of DNA code on a strain to make it non-lethal?

With that, it would seem it comes down to 'God's willful punishment' or "God has no control at all with the workings of nature".
---which is actually quite the obvious choice if you look around.

Answer 1

Excellent question which will most likely generate the 'bury head in sand' response.

Answer 2

Actually, a virus hardly qualifies as "living". They are simply strands of RNA (in most cases) surrounded by a protein coat. They do not living although they are active. They don't fit the biological definition.

However, God created all things. The question you are really asking has nothing to do with viruses or bacteria. You are fishing for who created evil? The answer is that God did not create Evil but rather created the possibility for it. He did this because He created us so that Love may be expressed. Where there is love, there must be the possibility for evil. Love is far less an emotion and more of a process of meeting needs (noun in the former and verb in the latter)

Your logic is really bad too. You assume that because God does not relieve the world of disease etc. that he must be evil. You sit in judgement of God. Do you not think this a bit arrogant. That you, a finite, highly limited human, knows so much that you can actually tell the creator of the universe and all created things that what he is doing is the wrong way to do it.

Frankly I would not want to see what the world would look like if I created it let alone if YOU did.

Have a fine day.

Answer 3

God created all life forms, even those that cause us harm.

Before the fall, no two life forms seemed to harm one another.

Viruses aren't a punishment, they're a fact of life in this world.

I'm not sure how God "steps in for a church revival" or why you'd expect Him to make a virus "non-lethal." The point of the fall story is that we're not living under His absolute protection anymore.

Answer 4

"Literal" Biblical "interpretation" is best left to the faithful. Viruses didn't exist before the fall, but Cain's wife was outside the Garden of Eden. It's all so clear because the Bible says nothing of the subject. God gave man free will and intelligence, but using it was the serpent's idea. Shut up, stop thinking, and be a good sheep.

Answer 5

Hey, here is the same answer that I used earlier. Apparently you are not reading your responses.


In the original creation, before the fall, everything was good. Higher life forms [those with backbones] regenerated, perhaps daily, to maintain perfect health. Lower forms, insects and those down to the molecular level, cleaned up, by consuming over ripe produce, etc.

After the fall, the earth was cursed, on account of Adam. Death entered Paradise. Organisms mutated and degenerated, bodies lost their ability to regenerate. This was the dominion of satan whose purpose is to kill, maime, and destroy the life that is a gift from God.

When the age of Grace [church age] is done, and the millennium is over, Paradise will be restored and the earth will be the habitation of God and Man together once again.

Answer 6

First of all the idea that knowledge of good and evil some how gives one a disposition to doing either is ludicrist! All the knowledge could do is make it possible for them to make a choice at all! After all you can not choose to do good or evil until you know what good and evil are!

Second there was no LAW / rules / guidelines until Moses. (Around 1,500 years after the fact)! However this lack of law / rules / guidlines didn't stop this God from saying all were wicked / evil / sinful! Best of all this God of love would kill anyone and everyone that he deamed evil / wicked / sinful!

If this God would feel he needs to have idiots think his murder is justified he says find ten righteous. However there is NO LAW by which to establish who is good or bad! Talk about a set up!

Answer 7

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?
The Holy Bible : English standard version. 2001 (Am 3:6). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.

Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

You need to have a catagory of thought that in theology is called concurrance. Man's intentions are alwyas evil, God's intentions are always good and holy. What we see as evil (because of our evil and intention), God calls good (because His intention in the act is God glorifying and Holy and good.

Answer 8

God created all things.
I don't believe that God is someone who is going to come in and start changing creation. Things evolve and change, become immune, and desolate. Its part of the process. What causes these viruses? They are of nature. What spreads these viruses? It could be from sin, it could be bad luck or both. Faith in God, and trust in God has healing power alone. Whether we as humans have the power to heal ourselves, or God heals us, it happens, miraculously. I say miraculously, because science can't explain it.
Personally, I believe in God, because it goes against all logic. Call it crazy, call it ignorant, or whatever you want. But more than one time in my life, when I have acted out against all man's logic, has my life improved considerably. I can't explain it, and will never understand why, but I trust it and have faith. I can not have faith in men, who claim to know it all, when there is so much unexplained.
Peace.

Answer 9

Your point is not coming accross clearly, its hard to determine who you are putting down here, Christians or Evolutionists? I dont know any evolutionists who believe in Adam and Eve or any Christians who don't give God the credit for creating all life forms.

Answer 10

first this isnt a real question secound where were you when God created the world.
God created the world perfect he created man and gave him a choice eat of any tree you like exept this one. the day in which you eat of it you will surely die. death being seperation from God but also phisical death. once adam ate mankind was cursed by God and he has the right to just as you have the right to do as you wish with the things you make. stop thinking of yourself as God and your "question" will be answered.

Answer 11

Human nature as created by God involved nourishing life within our bodies and bringing it forth to enjoy the world and love one another. The Fall perverted this process so that it now brings pain, illness and death as well as life, joy and love. Don't you think parasitism is the dark side of childbearing?