who cries, "Why did God allow this to happen to me?" when his payback comes? When bad befalls you, do you blame God for allowing it or do you look to yourself to see if your righteous heavenly Father might be disciplining you as a beloved child?
Looking back on my life I can see that a lot of the bad that happened to me I brought on myself. What are everyone's thoughts on this? If you don't believe there's a God you probably won't want to answer this one.
2007-07-17 04:31:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oops. I did spell steal incorrectly. lol sorry.
2007-07-17 05:11:03 · update #1
The Bible says that we reap what we sow, yes. And it also says it rains on the just and the unjust. Sometimes we do bring about bad things by our behavior, just as sometimes, bad things happen through no fault of our own. Life isn't fair--God never promised it would be. Yet God is a righteous judge, and in the end, we will all be judged or rewarded accordingly.
2007-07-17 05:16:08 · answer #1 · answered by beano™ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You know, you are right. For the most part our choices, good or bad, smart or unwise, thoughtful or impulsive, have consequences. I was taught that I could not control anyone else's choices or actions or behaviors, ONLY my own. I was expected to admit to my screw-ups and to be ready to pay the consequences for them from the cradle. Social and political opinions and correctness ran tandem to my upbringing.
People thought anyone who took their child to see psychiatrists, psychologists, & school facilitators were for the idle rich, who were too involved with their social lives and simply too lazy to be proper parents to their children.
Then Dr. Spock wrote the perfect parenting book, and it was amusing and ridiculous to REAL parents, and completely dismissed as psychobabble, especially considering the man did not have children of his own and had a very unstable marriage.
Then entered the "no moral absolutes" and "the devil made me do it", and "temporary insanity" theories and it went absurd legally and socially from that point on. Now, children are not held responsible nor acountable for their actions...something or someone ELSE is to blame.
All most all of my hard knocks in life were the result of my decisions, good or bad. Almighty God may have allowed things to happen to me, but at its core, I would not have suffered many of the pitfalls I faced, had my decision been different.
Those pitfalls or challenges I faced that I did not invite, presented me the opportunity to stand up for my beliefs in right or wrong, or waffle and at times take the easy way, which may or may not be the right way.
But, now as an adult, I know it was those hard places, those challenges, those pitfalls that made me stronger and a better person.
Regardless, I do not blame God, my environment, my parents, my neighborhood, my school, or the color of my skin for my pitfalls, I blame me.
2007-07-17 12:28:40 · answer #2 · answered by faith 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that God gets involved with us here.
The day that changed my life forever was not my fault in any way. I still hated myself for years though.
2007-07-17 12:02:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is because people use religion and god as an excuse for there actions in life.
2007-07-17 11:34:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Many times I was in disobedience,,therefore it was me who caused all the pain..I would never blame GOD.
2007-07-17 11:40:09 · answer #5 · answered by I give you the Glory Father ! 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
did you ever notice you spell steal incorrectly?
2007-07-17 11:33:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You might be correct or it's all a big coincidence
2007-07-17 11:34:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
You reap what you sow.
2007-07-17 11:37:46 · answer #8 · answered by Steel Rain 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Where is thy brother Abel, and what have you done with his flocks?
2007-07-17 11:40:27 · answer #9 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋