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‘Coronaviruses are named after their appearance as a round blob surrounded by a garland or crown of knobs. “Corona” means “crown” as in “coronation”. They consist of a package of genetic material and proteins surrounded by a membrane, with club shaped protein spikes protruding from its surface. The protein spikes form the “crown”, and are what enables the virus to attach to, and then enter the cells in an animal or human body. The creature successfully invaded is known as the host.’
So, ‘Why did God make viruses?
The original function of viruses is rather a mystery, but let’s look at viruses from a Biblical worldview, i.e. an original very good creation. On this basis we can be sure that viruses were not originally created to kill people or animals since there was no death, disease or violence in people or animals. People and animals ate plants, and there was no struggle to survive. Therefore, no-one could have contracted any virus disease through eating animals, or having a violent encounter with an animal.
Many viruses we have found do not make people or other living things ill. We carry them around on our internal body surfaces, along with myriads of other microbes (bacteria, etc). This indicates they must have a function, or have had a function in the past that didn’t involve making people ill. Even the current coronavirus has been found in people who are not ill, as revealed when mass testing has been carried out. Therefore, it is possible the coronavirus virus has already existed harmlessly in animals or even people but no-one knew about it.
This leads us to an important point – unless viruses are causing problems we don’t hear about them because researchers are not even looking for them. When things are working quietly in the background, or sitting passively not giving anyone any grief, no news media is going to report it as no-one would consider it to be news, and scientists are not motivated to study them. The current lack of knowledge about any original good functions of viruses is due to lack of interest in research, and lack of grant money for research. You don’t find out things you are not looking for, and if you believe that viruses evolved to reproduce themselves and spread by making people sick, you concentrate on that aspect of their existence. The same situation existed to give bacteria a bad name in the 1800’s but 150 years later we know that most of them are not only useful, but really helpful. We predict, based on the goodness of Christ’s original creation, the same will happen to viruses, as they are elevated to perhaps useful micro-messengers needed by all cells and environments. This is where Biblical biology can form a useful basis for scientific research.
Now back to the next step of Biblical history. Following Adam’s sin the creation degenerated into a mix of good and bad, which means we can be equally sure that degenerative processes in living things also happened to viruses, as well as in people’s behaviour, and these are the root cause of any bad interaction between viruses and people that results in disease.
One result of having ‘tolerant’ people who can carry the virus without being harmed is that they can pass it on to vulnerable people who do become ill, which brings us to another degeneration – our human immune system. One function of the immune system is to keep the microbes we live with in their place. In the beginning this process worked efficiently, so any viruses in the wrong place would be eliminated. Since then, our immune systems, like all other body functions have degenerated.
The other thing that has degenerated, and therefore caused disease, is human behaviour. Simple hygienic practices such as washing, cleaning clothes and household surfaces, safe preparation and storage of food, etc. will keep a lot of disease-causing microbes at bay. The really big revolutions in improving the health of overall populations are the provision of good infrastructure, such as clean water supplies, effective sewerage, drainage and rubbish removal/recycling, and avoiding overcrowding and pollution. The reasons these are not provided in many places are human ignorance, oppression, wars and greed.
Therefore, let us not blame God for the current outbreak of disease, when it is much more accurate to blame people’s unclean habits. Even though He has allowed it to happen, and in a sovereign way He will use it to His glory in the same way He has allowed other “natural disasters” happen in the world ever since man rebelled against his Creator, back in the Garden of Eden. One purpose being to allow man time and opportunity to realise we are not God, and we do need a Saviour. God did not lose control of the world after man sinned, and He hasn’t lost control now. He is still Creator, Sustainer, Judge and Saviour, and is working His purposes out for mankind and the world.’ https://askjohnmackay.com/coronavirus-did-the-coronavirus-evolve-to-infect-people-if-not-why-did-god-make-viruses/
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