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Home/Biblical and Theological/Does Christianity Have an Answer?

Does Christianity Have an Answer?

Wright leaves us only with the Christian tradition of lament in times of distress.

Written by Richard D. Phillips | Monday, April 6, 2020

Wright is right to warn Christians against specific claims about the coronavirus that go beyond the clear teaching of Scripture. And he is certainly right to say we are lamenting. Yet is it really true that the Christian faith gives no answers about the coronavirus? The reality is that God’s Word does give a vital message, including answers to the most important questions.

 

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.
My soul also is greatly troubled.
But you, O Lord—how long?

— Psalm 6:2, 3

Anglican scholar N. T. Wright posted an article last week on the TIME magazine website, titled “Christianity Offers No Answers About the Coronavirus.” Wright makes the valid point that we should be hesitant to offer quick and easy explanations regarding God’s purpose in this pandemic. He comments that Christian rationalists want explanations, while Christian romantics “want to be given a sigh of relief.” Neither can be had from Christianity, Wright states, which leaves us only with the Christian tradition of lament in times of distress. He cites Psalm 6:2 as an example: “Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.”

Wright is right to warn Christians against specific claims about the coronavirus that go beyond the clear teaching of Scripture. And he is certainly right to say we are lamenting. Yet is it really true that the Christian faith gives no answers about the coronavirus? The reality is that God’s Word does give a vital message, including answers to the most important questions.

Let me suggest two of them:

First, the coronavirus pandemic has delivered a message that this world is not and will never be the paradise that secular men and women have wanted it to be. For all our technological advance and economic development, the world remains cursed by a plague that originates in sin. When Adam committed the first sin, God declared: “cursed is the ground because of you” (Gen. 3:17).  Thus, one clear message of the coronavirus is that sin is a bigger problem than most people have thought. The pandemic calls for us to be delivered from sin’s ultimate plague—death and judgment—by appealing to the forgiveness offered by Jesus through the blood of His cross. The answer to the clear message of the coronavirus is Jesus Christ, the only Savior from all the curse of sin.

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