(USA TODAY) Faith leaders for Muslims, Jews, and Christians share varied perspectives on God’s role with coronavirus.
Christian theologian, author and teacher at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, Thomas Jay Oord tries to answer the question “If God is good, then why does the coronavirus exist?”
According to Oord, God can’t simply prevent the coronavirus – or any other natural evils – singlehandedly but requires “our participation and cooperation” to fight it, he says.
“It’s not my job to be God’s lawyer,” says Rabbi Chaim Bruk, co-CEO of Chabad Lubavitch, a Hasidic Jewish community in Bozeman, Montana. “I’m his salesman. I do believe he’s the greatest thing that ever existed, and I encourage people to get to know him without trying to explain what he’s doing or why.”