Reading The Bible In Its Proper Context
Lately, I began reading the Bible again because I was looking for answers to questions as to why the Covid-19 pandemic had to happen. Was there a reason for it? Did God willed it to happen to teach us all a lesson? Was it entirely our fault that it had to happen? Was this event written somewhere in the scripture like a prophetic message? I'm not sure if I can find the answer in the Bible to those questions. But I'll try. My other reason for reading the Bible again is that I wanted to re-ignite my faith in God. I guess it was faltering a bit because of what's happening today. People, who believe in God, resorted to prayers and turned back to God when things weren't looking good. The pandemic which had raged since last year had been tough for all of us. These past years, I have not actively read the Bible and I just relied on sermons from our parish priest when we were still able to attend mass as a community. Sadly, hearing mass is now close to impossible lest you contr...