Obedience to God and Love of Neighbor in the Face of a Coronavirus

Just this week, I spoke with a national reporter for a major newspaper who asked me why people, in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, are almost universally asking some of the most urgent and important questions any human being could ask. I answered that God made all humanity in his image—and as image bearers, there are certain questions we cannot avoid.

During the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas rightly argued that human beings, made in the image of God, cannot not know God. We may deny God. We may deny that we know God. Yet, in reality, none of us can successfully deny to ourselves the existence of the Creator before whom we will one day give an account.

A crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic tends to jerk humanity into the most fundamental theological questions. Who would have thought just a couple weeks ago that many would be forced to shelter in place, restrict their movements to only the grocery store and a local pharmacy? As this pandemic continues to cast its shadow, humanity will be forced into the most basic yet most important questions any human could ask. Life and death are now, all the sudden, our daily conversation.

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