Blaming God instead of Satan and Sin?

[Lamb]

Why do people blame God for bad things instead of Satan or sin?

 

[Albion]

It's because they figure that if God is to be God, he has to be all-powerful. So, to that extent, they do believe in the Judeo-Christian concept of God.

Therefore, when bad things happen, they feel that God must have either have caused these things to happen or else permitted them to happen.

 

[Lucian Hodoboc]

If an insane man somehow managed to escape from a maximum security asylum and started attacking citizens on the street, and there was an armed police officer with a lot of experience, who was three times as strong as the insane man, and the police officer was just standing there at the street corner watching things unfold without interfering,... who would you say was more to blame?

 

[atpollard]

If an insane man somehow managed to escape from a maximum security asylum and started attacking citizens on the street, and there was an armed police officer with a lot of experience, who was three times as strong as the insane man, and the police officer was just standing there at the street corner watching things unfold without interfering,... who would you say was more to blame?

Insane man … people are still responsible for their actions.
The Cop is just a jerk.

 

[Bluezone777]

Simply put, people do not wish to hold themselves accountable for their actions and will point the finger in any other direction that they can to get out of the repercussions of their actions. It started with Adam and Eve in the garden and it continues on to the present day and beyond. Holding oneself accountable is a form of honesty and that is something that is not part of human nature.

 

[Lees]

Why do people blame God for bad things instead of Satan or sin?

My opinion is, that usually blaming God comes during a tremendous hurt of pain and loss. Why didn't You do this? Or why did You do this? Or, why did You do nothing?

We blame God because Satan is not in control. God is.

The truth, I believe, is that we blame God because He is to blame. But, the truth is also, that He shoulders the blame. And, all that He has done and is doing, is for the believers good.

If the God/Man, Jesus Christ, Who was made to feel as man feels with a human nature and body, cries out, "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?", (Matt. 27:46), should we not be surprised that fallen and redeemed mankind does the same.

It's sort of like 'cussing'. No one cusses using the name of Satan. They use the name of God or Christ. Why...because though they don't admit it, they give credence that there is God and He is in control, and is thus to blame.

Lees

 

[Messy]

My opinion is, that usually blaming God comes during a tremendous hurt of pain and loss. Why didn't You do this? Or why did You do this? Or, why did You do nothing?

We blame God because Satan is not in control. God is.

The truth, I believe, is that we blame God because He is to blame. But, the truth is also, that He shoulders the blame. And, all that He has done and is doing, is for the believers good.

If the God/Man, Jesus Christ, Who was made to feel as man feels with a human nature and body, cries out, "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?", (Matt. 27:46), should we not be surprised that fallen and redeemed mankind does the same.

It's sort of like 'cussing'. No one cusses using the name of Satan. They use the name of God or Christ. Why...because though they don't admit it, they give credence that there is God and He is in control, and is thus to blame.

Lees

God had forsaken Him because He was made sin, a curse, carrying our sin.

Isaiah 59
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened,
That it cannot save;
Nor His ear heavy,
That it cannot hear.
2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God;
And your sins have hidden His face from you,
So that He will not hear.

When I divorced a nasty judge gave my 3 month old baby to my ex. I prayed to God that I would get them back, but He didn't answer.
He was not to blame. He simply could not help me, because I was mislead and lived in sin. I remember I then saw a preaching from Carlos Annacondia and I did not understand it. I lived together with an atheist in sin, thinking God was fine with it and saw us as married. So he preached on that widow from Nain, whose son Jesus raised from the dead and he said: God will give you back what you lost. And he said that when he preached this elsewhere a woman yanked his tie and said: Mis hijos! Mis hijos! Why? Why? Why? (My kids my kids) and he said: Because you turned your back on God.
I didn't get it. Only later when I saw I had been mislead, I understood. You first have to repent and then He can help you. And it's not always because of someone's sin. Someone can be innocent and die as a martyr because of other people's sins. The only thing you can say God is responsible for is that He created Adam and Eve, knowing that it would also cause a lot of suffering, but He still thought it was worth it. He can't just stop the suffering for everyone. He waits for the harvest to come in.

 

[Ammi]

Why do people blame God for bad things instead of Satan or sin?

Because God is all-knowing and all-powerful. Which is true. Why He created Lucifer, knowing what was going to happen? I don't know. But I do know He is in control, and I do know that He loves me forever, and I do know that I'm just passing through this life and that I'll get a new body and I'll be with Him forever. My job is to endure. Sometimes pain drives me to act not very good.

 

[Messy]

Because God is all-knowing and all-powerful. Which is true. Why He created Lucifer, knowing what was going to happen? I don't know. But I do know He is in control, and I do know that He loves me forever, and I do know that I'm just passing through this life and that I'll get a new body and I'll be with Him forever. My job is to endure. Sometimes pain drives me to act not very good.

Pain and sickness is from satan. My mom fell and had terrible pain. She watched a preacher all day every day on tv, who preaches about healing and just rebuked it and the pain is now gone. She felt like a demon kicked her in the back when she fell and she had just shared the Gospel with her neighbour, who wanted nothing to do with it and got mad. It was really an attack.

 

[Ammi]

Pain and sickness is from Satan. My mom fell and had terrible pain. She watched a preacher all day every day on tv, who preaches about healing and just rebuked it and the pain is now gone. She felt like a demon kicked her in the back when she fell and she had just shared the Gospel with her neighbor, who wanted nothing to do with it and got mad. It was really an attack.

I've gone through various healing ministries and doctrine. I've been told at times that I have a lack of faith, that I don't want to be healed, that there is sin in my life. I have broken curses off of me and got deliverance. Powerful times with good results, while at a week-long Christian retreat. But physical healing has evaded me.
I arrived at the place where I had to accept that either God was unfaithful to me, or I just didn't understand. He is faithful. I found some comfort in the writings of A.W. Tozer. That He may use affliction to prepare His vessel for His purposes.
The Lord told me a few years ago that things would soon improve for me. Within a week I was prescribed a medication that had an almost miraculous effect on me. I was really angry at Him for a few months. Why would He tell me about a pill when He could heal me? I don't know the answer to that question.
One thing I know, one thing I believe, one thing I am sure of is that He...is...faithful! He gives, He takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord!

 

[Messy]

I've been told at times that I have a lack of faith, that I don't want to be healed, that there is sin in my life.

What a horrible stupid thing to say. Just throw the blame on you when they can't heal you. Jesus rebuked His disciples for their unbelief, not the people who came to get healed. We used to have a church with a healing ministry, but I saw that most big miracles happened when there was unity. There was a pastor with a healing ministry and another pastor and my ex and they worked together. His dad got healed from cancer, my aunt, a woman from church with small kids, who was dying. Instantly healed. The whole church also prayed together for these people. 1 puts 1000 to flight, 2 10.000. Maybe that's why satan does so much effort to let churches fight over nonsense and keeps them occupied with their own kingdom.

 

[Ammi]

What a horrible stupid thing to say. Just throw the blame on you when they can't heal you. Jesus rebuked His disciples for their unbelief, not the people who came to get healed. We used to have a church with a healing ministry, but I saw that most big miracles happened when there was unity. There was a pastor with a healing ministry and another pastor and my ex and they worked together. His dad got healed from cancer, my aunt, a woman from church with small kids, who was dying. Instantly healed. The whole church also prayed together for these people. 1 puts 1000 to flight, 2 10.000. Maybe that's why satan does so much effort to let churches fight over nonsense and keeps them occupied with their own kingdom.

I guess people want things to make sense. I know the Lord can heal me. My sister's friend Suzanne got healed out of a wheelchair. Then there was the morning while I was away at a retreat and alone in my room, when the weight of the Lord pushed me over backwards. It took about 15 seconds for me to reach the floor. That was physically impossible. And then I got the gift of tongues!
Once while sitting in my room, He lifted me up onto my feet from sitting in a chair. So, I know He can heal me. He just hasn't. I used to go all over seeking healing. I don't anymore. I just accept my state and get through the day the best I can.
My salvation is not based upon whether or not I get healed. I know He loves and accepts me, and that's what really matters.

 

[Messy]

I guess people want things to make sense. I know the Lord can heal me. My sister's friend Suzanne got healed out of a wheelchair. Then there was the morning while I was away at a retreat and alone in my room, when the weight of the Lord pushed me over backwards. It took about 15 seconds for me to reach the floor. That was physically impossible. And then I got the gift of tongues!
Once while sitting in my room, He lifted me up onto my feet from sitting in a chair. So, I know He can heal me. He just hasn't. I used to go all over seeking healing. I don't anymore. I just accept my state and get through the day the best I can.
My salvation is not based upon whether or not I get healed. I know He loves and accepts me, and that's what really matters.

I got a course in a church when I was 18 or so. It was from an American couple with a healing ministry. They had a book called How you can heal the sick. It was a few meetings I think and we got some of that teaching that we now can heal the sick in Jesus' Name and then we had to practice with each other. You had to say: muscles come into place in Jesus' Name etc. So I just did that, thinking: We're just practicing here for the course. Noone is really sick. Just like learning to put a bandaid on someone with a fake wound. But years later I visited that woman I practiced with and she said her whomb was tilted after 2 or 3 kids, so she couldn't get another child, but after we did that the whomb just tilted back and she got another child and my mom's back hurt, so hey we just got a course. Lets do that. Vertebrae come into place in Jesus' Name, muscles. Whoop. She was just healed. But it's always easier to believe for others. I got pain in my shoulder, RSI, couldn't work anymore. Went to the front in church to get prayer. Felt better. Started to use the computer mouse. Ouch. So a year long I put a walkman with Bible texts about healing on my head every night and during the day I would confess and write down Bible texts about healing for hours, day in day out and it felt just as bad, I couldnt work, but I just kept confessing by His stripes I am healed, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, the Lord is my Healer, You're healing me now Jesus (I almost know that cd word for word) and after a year I had built my faith and I went to a healing service and then I saw a guy on the podium who just got saved and they said: do something you couldn't do and he was just jumping over the podium and threw away his crutches and then I was like: What? He just got saved. Look at me being complicated, doing all this effort to build my faith and he simply jumps all over the place, so he inspired me, I slammed the floor with my arm and the pain was gone. Next day I had to go to the office doc and he wanted to let me get disability, but I said: no hear. It's good. I went to a healing service. I go work again. He didn't trust it at all, but I just never had to go back to him. That idea was from John G. Lake with the healing rooms. They would let sick people stay there and hear the Word all day until they got healed.
Anyway you're on my prayer list.

 

[Ammi]

Healing Rooms, Theophostic prayer ministry, listening to word tapes, making the right confession. I was on a ministry team for several years. Once I was given a prayer someone had written out. I was told that if I prayed it every day, that God would heal me. I prayed it every day for months. Then one day I woke up and felt fine.
I went to the doc and told him to get me off the meds. God healed me! 9 months later I got sick again. In hindsight I see that it was the HCQ I'd been on that put me in remission. I asked the doc to put me on HCQ again but this was after it was demonized by the Democrats. So, now I can't get it in my area.
I'd just finished taking a 4 month computer course, had voluntarily withdrawn from my disability pension, and was handing out resumes. Fortunately, I was fast-tracked back onto my pension.
People do not know what I went through to get healed. So, in order to keep their belief system intact, they conclude that I'm to blame for not getting healed.
Some get healed, some don't. I don't believe that anyone really knows why.