2006-07-08 06:15:16 · 16 answers · asked by Kenny ♣ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The buzz is you are not supposed to blame god for bad things that happen, because he "does not make them happen" but then you are supposed to thank him when good things happen (even if you worked your *** of to make them happen) because he "made it happen".
Figure that one out.
2006-07-08 06:22:09 · answer #1 · answered by innocence faded 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Freewill is just that.......a blessing among many from GOD. Therefore it gives you the power to make choices as GOD allowed it to be.
GOD is blame free......HE is a Savior and makes the rules, not get blame for the ones that were broken by people who define those rules with their interpretation of "freewill"......... +
2006-07-08 06:30:29 · answer #2 · answered by silhouette 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would void the "free" in "free will" wouldn't it?
You can't have it both ways.
God created man with a free will so that man could make a choice to follow God, instead of being a "robot".
When man rebels, choosing instead to go the other way, he is responsible for his choices and must face the consequence of that choice.
Mix a few billion people together, most turning away from God, and you have the current conditions of human misery, man made consequences of wrong choices.
We can't live our lives ignoring God and then rationalize holding God up for blame when our wrong choices blow up in our collective faces.
Each one of us has to choose. Together, society reflects the consequences of majority decisions.
The United States of America, a country founded upon Christian principles, has, in the past been mightily blessed as a nation because of the Christian bedrock. Now, as a nation of whining, rebellious, self indulgent children, turning almost completely away from God, we are spiraling to destruction.
We reap what we sow.
2006-07-08 06:29:59 · answer #3 · answered by steve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The facile answer is "yes". But the question is actually more profound, and has had people scratching their heads for centuries. Related issues: Is there "free will"? Can God create a rock that is so big that he cannot move it? If God created everything, did he also create evil, and if so, why?
My own view: Theories about God and His doings do not lead to testable conclusions. Hence, all such theories are pure speculation -- they cannot be used to predict anything -- so I do not waste my time with them.
2006-07-08 06:24:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God designed feww will to allow human beings to persist with there personal course. The made guy to worship him and run the earth as his representivitve, yet he would not favor robots. loose will supplies human beings the right to deside to worship and persist with god, or now to not. God can make human beings obay him, yet he would not favor the worship, a lot as he needs the desier of worship for him, imagine of it like this, A thanks isn't a manadotory even as someone does something, yet you would possibly want to and they get extra satifaction from the theory that someone talked about and acknowlaged the act extra then the words themselves. God also has the devil, God gave the devil potential over certain acpects of the international, if he became omnipresent/efficient and used it, earth ought to haven't any reason to exsist becouse it must be like a e book, each and everything has allready be planned and your existence must be like a computer application. God does understand what is going to ensue and facilitates it, he knows your desisons and ought to favor you chosen a distinct course, yet authentic potential comes from no longer employing it, he's dissaponted in human beings movements at circumstances, yet accepts them. decrease back to worship, compelled worship isn't authentic worship, yet worship it extremely is selected and volenteery is authentic and efficient worship it extremely is the kind god desiers. that's an extremely comlex problem that theologans talk and debate for centeries, this explination scatchs the floor and leave a lot extra to talk and clarify. that is a preview to the vast image.
2016-11-06 01:29:51 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, free will, like life itself, is a gift. Thus the meaning of "The Grace of God". But I see your point. I know a man who once gave his retarded son a 750cc motorcycle for his sixteenth birthday in the hope that he would kill himself on it. But I think the average man "made in God's image" is not deficient or incompetent to guide his own destiny -- that is unless he comes to believe that he IS God himself, so not needing of the guidance that an open mind will give him. That is, after all the way Lucifer himself ended up where he is.
2006-07-08 07:44:23 · answer #6 · answered by titou 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a child of five or six and told that person to stay away from a lit candle. If he burns himself should you be blamed for the pain that is caused for the child that used his freewill to put his hand in the burning flame?
The obvious answer (No there is only one answer) is..............?
2006-07-08 06:38:15 · answer #7 · answered by caedmonscall99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, just because you HAVE it does not mean that you have to use it. Just because I own a shotgun does not mean I need to go and shoot things.....Just because I own a vaccume doesn't mean my house is spotless!
The whole idea of free will is that God is NOT responsible for the actions the creatures choose to make.
2006-07-08 06:18:48 · answer #8 · answered by Michelle A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a perfect person so therefore he can't take the blame for what mankind does. You use your own mind to do what you do.
2006-07-08 06:19:04 · answer #9 · answered by tracey986 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because man made the choice to disobey. God gave Adam and Eve the choice, and they made that choice.
2006-07-08 06:20:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋