Why do people distinguish between genetics and God? Is God not responsible for genetics? Isn't God Nature?

Question

If mental illness is genetic, isn't God to blame since Nature is God and vice versa?

Answer 1

Please, please...do not try to inject sanity into this foray..it confuses, demoralizes, and brings out the loudest in those you are asking the question of.

Answer 2

We distinguish between God and genetics for the same reason we distinguish between God and trees....there is no comparison. Genetics refers to the basic building blocks that make up lifeforms; God is supposedly an all powerful entity that oversees life. How can they be the same?
If their were a God and he did indeed fulfill the functions that Christians give him, then yes, he would be responsible for mental illness. He would also be responsible for cancer, cystic fibrosis, MS and every other horrible disease in the world. Does that really make you feel better about worshipping him?

Answer 3

A thinking person would look a little deeper into the mystery of God. Without an understanding of the nature of God and his workings thrugh time... these kinds questions cannot be answered to one without Godly wisdom.

"There is a way that seems right to men but leads off into destruction."

Answer 4

God is not to blame, man is to blame. Man chose evil, sickness, and cursings over the love of God. God does not send evil to men, as God is not evil, but is good.

Mental illness can be a combination of conditions: vitamin deficiency, brain damage, chemical imbalances, or a variety of environmental influences.

God is responsible for DNA, but when man chose evil, things in "nature" were harmed by that choice.

Answer 5

Genetics is a science. God is an entity. Your question is similar to asking whether there is a difference between cooking and Emeril.

Answer 6

Blame the fundamentalist/"Intelligent Design" movement for conflating the two.

Evolution and abiogenesis are seperate theories and are independent of one another. They both are contrary to a strict literalist interpretation of the bible, though, so the IDers like to combine them so they can attack evolution, which is solid, by making Appeals from Incredulity on abiogenesis, which is far more specualtive.

Answer 7

This concept of God is pantheism, the idea that God is everything and everything is God.
The God of the bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob exists outside of time and space and created all things that exists. God created genetics, gave the dominion to mankind, mankind sold his dominion to satan who corrupted it's goodness. God redeemed His creation through Jesus and is allowing the Church to re-establish order to this domain.

Answer 8

"SIN" is the natural condition of the physical world. Disease
is part of the "food chain". It exists on a micrscopic and even
spiritual level. There are bacteria that build up, and break down.
Who to say who is "playing God"? Those that want to heal
diseases, or those who say we can't interfere.

Answer 9

If we consider 'god' as the creative lifeforce, you are correct. The challenge is that many depict god as a specific entity in a specific religion. This situation creates a condition of intolerance towards other religions who also recognize 'god' as the creative lifeforce.

Answer 10

God is the creator of all things, past, present, and things to come.
Illiness is the product of sin, and Jesus died and took those beatings and stripes so we can be healed.

Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Answer 11

God is an imaginary friend for adults.