Exactly why can't we blame God for anything ?

Question

I honestly fail to see this. A Guy creates everything, and with everything I mean E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G, but when somebody blames Him for the smallest of things (you know, cancer,Aids, starvation, etc), people always start to shout that it's never God's fault. It's always free will, sin, devils and I don't know what other reason.

I'm seriously interested in how this works in the human brain. I don't believe in a god, but I can understand that others do. I just can't understand why a creator always only has to be given credit for the good things and never for any badness. It's like humans try to protect the creator from any responsibility. Why is that?

If my best friend would murder somebody, I would first not believe it, after that I would blame others, but at some point I would accept in my mind that he really did a horrible thing. I would still love him. Why does God have a free-from-responsibilities card?

Answer 1

Its not Gods fault when his children act stupid.If you smoke and get cancer that's not Gods fault. When you eat foods that God said were unhealthy Pork you get sick not Gods fault. When you dont pay attition and have a accident again not God fault. He lets his children think for themselves and if they want to live in a way that is unhealthy or stupid he will let you but you will pay the price.

Answer 2

well i do not know which religion you are talking about. i am a muslim. in the quran god states what god will do to the unbelievers. god creates everything. as far as calling it blame from a human persepective i guess you could put it that way. god does inflict hardship on some. god is also good to others. nothing can happen with out the will of god. for the most part though we are repsonsible for our own actions. i once asked if a criminally insane person will be judged on the day of judgement and a shiek told me no. how could you trial an insane person. it is not their fault. some people refuse to say any thing is gods fault out of fear but the way i look at things is god creates all good and evil. it is just up to us to choose the right road. when god allows some lunatic to rape a person it is up to the person to keep their faith. what ever happens to us in this life no matter how horrible it may seem the reward of heaven is the greatest reward that even humans can not imagine. keeping your faith and doin what the quran commands you to do is what you are responsible for doing. if you do that then you are securing your spot in heaven. you choose to stray from that then only god knows your fait from there. life is not fair. that has been made clear from the beginning. we are humans. we are lower then god. but considering you are an athiest what do you care.

Answer 3

I understand where you are coming from. Your questions are very valid. This is what I believe: When Eve ate from the forbidden tree she ushered sin into this world and everyone that has been born since then has been born with the sin nature. Before Eve sinned, the world was perfect. God provided them with a paradise and gave them dominion over all of the other creatures of the earth. After Eve sinned, the world was no longer perfect. Can we blame God for that? God knew exactly what would happen, I believe that He knows everything, it says in the bible that God even knew us before we were even concieved. I think God has a plan for this world and He is fulfilling His plan. He has provided a way for us and that is through Jesus Christ. Although we are born with the sin nature, when we accept Jesus as our Savior we have the Spirit living in us, and when we have the Spirit living in us, we know longer want to do those sinful things that we used to do. Sometimes we do, because the flesh battles with the Spirit but Christ saved us with His blood. You can come to your own conclusions.

Answer 4

God is ultimately responsible for evil, but is not the author of it. Evil is not a created thing, it is the lack of goodness. Only God is perfectly good. His creation was good, with the possiblity of corruption (naturally, since if it were perfectly good in and of itself, it would be equal with God and therefore God, and God cannot create another God).

Cancer, AIDS, murder, various sexual perversions, oppression, etc are acts of fallen men. God is not "responsible" for them. These are acts that wicked people commit. God is ultimately responsible for them however, in that he could, if he so willed, stop them if he wanted. According to his Word, he will stop these things when the time comes. All things whether good or bad work together for his glory. He will be glorified when he punishes the unrepentant wicked for their sins, and he will be glorified when he rewards those sinners who, by his grace repent of their sins and embrace Jesus Christ as he is offered in the Gospel.

God uses evil to bring about his own glory (and that's a very good thing!). When you and I kill and rape and hurt each other, we show what we are. God allows us the "freedom" to do such things. However, I don't know why you're complaining, you enjoy being a slave to Satan and doing whatsoever he commands of you, yes?

Answer 5

Because you can't blame him...death disease and everything else is a result of sin not God. God will still love the person who commits the sin but God isn't a God of only forgiveness he is also a God of Justice. Would your friend not deserve to be punished for his actions as well? The punishment for 1 sin is separation from God forever. Sin is bad...worse than anything you could imagine. That's why a relationship with Christ is so important. It's not about God being mean it's about sin being horrible.

Answer 6

People can and do blame God for many things. There's even a common clause in insurance policies for, "an act of God."

However, it doesn't make much sense to blame God since the whole concept is that there's someone who knows a great deal more than we do. I will always make the assumption He has His reasons even though I may not be aware of them.

Answer 7

The bible says that Satan also has some authority over the earth as well. Believe it or not he's really powerful. For example, Job, you can read his story in the book of Job. God and Satan talked and Satan asked God if he could screw with Job, and God said Ok because he knew the Job would remain faithful to him. So Satan took everything Job had from him. His family died, his animals died, etc etc. But he remained faithful to God, and after the trials Satan put him through, God blessed him with twice as much as he had before.

This goes to say that God doesn't does create all the bad on this earth. The devil does

Answer 8

Because God never intended for anything like that to happen. Adam and Eve, at first, were perfect, as was the world in which they lived. Then Adam and Eve destroyed God's utopia by eating the forbidden fruit. So God never meant for there to be AIDS, and thus AIDS is not his fault.

I actually believe the Adam and Eve thing is one large metaphor, but the message is the same no matter how you interpret it: humans cause their own despair and demise.

Answer 9

that is because although humans didn't create everything they did create religion..... Julius Cesar is the creator of the Catholic Religion... and the off shoots of christianity.. same mentality... and through this he high jacked the future of humanity.... mother nature has been given the earth to rule... she's just beginning the clean up... including having destroyed man's made heaven.... now life is for the living not the dead... also because of how it was used by humanity she refuses the title god.....

the man made gods... including julius cesar didn't care about life on earth and no one was able to stop them till mother nature.... someday you will see that people will be diagnosed with illnesses simply based on being christian or religious..

Answer 10

We each have a brain. God gave us those brains along with the ability to 'choose'. Whether it be a good or a bad choice, it is still our choice, not God's. Thus, for example, if we choose to murder another human and suffer the consequences of going to prison for the rest of your life and still blame God, isn't that being a little...stupid?