If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him. You cannot put Him off with speculations about your next door neighbours or memories of what you have read in books. — C. S. Lewis (from here (en.wikiquote.org))

If you have not read it, please read WHY COVID-19? Whereas WHY COVID-19? stated the basic proposition, COVID-19 is a punishment for our sins, this post helps to explain how COVID-19 resulted from our sins.

What is COVID-19? It is a type of pestilence or plague (biblegateway.com). Both these words occur frequently in the Bible, usually in the context of a punishment from God.

Is punishment from God necessarily a bad thing? No.

Hebrews 12:4-11New King James Version (NKJV)

⁴ You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. ⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:

“My son, do not…

Newborn on scale (from here)

According to Olivia Gans Turner, who heads the Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL) in Richmond, we cannot breathe easy now that this year’s session of the Virginia General Assembly has recessed. Progressives are preparing even more legislation for the next session to further destroy our protective laws and instead, promote the abortion agenda.

In VSHL email dated March 23, 2020 and titled “Virginia Pro-Life Legislative Update”, she lists what is in the playbook for 2021 legislation:

1. Amend the Virginia constitution to add a permanent Right to Abortion. Abortion will be legalized for every woman (see Petition to Stop the Pro-Abortion Amendment to the Virginia Constitution).
2. Eliminate Parental Consent laws. Parents will lose even more control over what their children are taught and what they embrace in their sexual/gender identity struggles. Counter measures by family members will be illegal.
3. Increase tax payer funding…

As we cautioned in articles posted before the November 2019 elections, transgenderism is a major plank of the LGBTQ agenda. Voters needed to be clear on positions candidates took on matters concerning sexual orientation and sex education in the public schools.

Once the 2020 legislative session began in Richmond, 50 or more bills were introduced that promoted the LGBTQ agenda and many were enacted into law. According to The Family Foundation (familyfoundation@familyfoundation.org, 2020 Legislative Summary PART 5: Religious Freedom), several of those bills pose the greatest threat to our religious freedom in Virginia.

SB 868 is the primary legislation that makes illegal ANY distinction based on sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI). The bill is aimed directly at religious organizations and people. While it prohibits any discrimination against SOGI, it includes public accommodations, public and private employment and housing. While the Family Foundation tried to add exemptions…

The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni (from here (en.wikipedia.org)).

Because of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), these are especially lonely times for some people. Solitude leads to contemplation. For most of us, there are four big questions.

–Why am I here?
–What is right and wrong?
–What brings me meaning
–What happens to a human being when I die?
List from Ravi Zacharias (an expert in Christian apologetics) who says there are Four Questions To Answer In Life.(=>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfb5-7mtC-8)

Imagine you have lived alone, in solitude — without anyone — all of your life. You might wonder why you exist, but what would be the significance of right or wrong? If it felt good, why wouldn’t you do it? The only person you could sin against would be yourself. Meaning might concern you, but you could not make anyone else happy, except yourself, and that would be…