Objection: Disease Viruses Are Part of God’s Creation and Are Therefore Good, Even Though We Often Don’t Think So When We Catch Them

Disease viruses are not part of God’s original creation that He declared to be good.  You will not find viruses in Genesis 1 and 2.  You will not read, “Sometime between the sixth and seventh days, God said, ‘Let there be viruses to make My creation miserable for a season.’  And it was so.  And God looked on the various flu strains and called them good.”  Diseases are mentioned only after Adam fell.  Death, and with it, sickness, came into the world through sin (Romans 5:12).

Further proof that disease is not part of God’s original good creation is that fact that there will be no more pain in the renewed earth that we will inhabit forever (Revelation 21:4).  (Yes, technically, you don’t live in heaven eternally, you live on the new earth in which righteousness dwells.  This isn’t worth splitting hairs over with people who talk about heaven in a generic sense.)  The former things will have passed away!  If sickness were good, it would be in heaven forever and continue to cause pain.  But sickness will be absent from heaven and the “new earth” will not be fallen; it will be in the same good condition that our current earth was in before sin corrupted it.

God declared everything that He made good or very good.  You don’t have to go through mental gymnastics trying to convince yourself that disease germs are somehow “good.”  They aren’t.  They’re bad.  Any right-thinking person can attest to that.  However, someone actually tried to get me to believe this ludicrous theory about viruses in creation.  It was too corny to forget!  However, you may feel free to forget it.

Seeing that physical death only came through sin (Genesis 3:19), fatal diseases could not have been around before Adam fell, because Adam could not have died physically before he sinned!  Disease came only because Adam allowed Satan, the author of disease, into the earth.  Jesus did good and healed all those who were oppressed by the devil (Acts 10:38)!  Peter called the healing of the crippled man in Acts 3:1-16 a “good deed” in Acts 4:9.  If the REMOVAL of sickness is GOOD, sickness itself CANNOT be good!  That settles the matter.