Is God To Blame?

Men blame God for injustice suffered at the hands of wicked men. If you have dealt with sinners at all, you have surely encountered some accusations against God. They are quick to lay to God's charge the injustices that abound in the world. Men who have been in battle and experienced the awfulness of war have said to me more than once that they couldn't believe in a God who would let such things happen. People watch television and read newspapers where all the worst of the world is put on display daily and they either conclude that there is no God, or if there is, He is an unjust and cruel God. They come to this conclusion based on the fact that God "lets" these things happen. God "lets" cruel men mistreat and abuse innocent people, therefore the guilt belongs to Him and not to the wicked, cruel men. This is an example of the madness that is in their hearts, as the Bible says in Ecclesiastes. This person is a rebel himself, and refuses to let God control any part of his life, but he blames God for not controlling the lives of others. His complaint against God is based on what he sees as injustice being done to others, but he practices the same thing in his own life, just on a smaller, less offensive scale (that is, in the sight of men.) We can be sure of this because sin is the gratifying of one's own desires at the sacrifice and expense of God and others. It is the opposite of loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and your neighbor as yourself. This man is as guilty of this as those whose sin he is laying to God's charge.

God is NOT GUILTY! God DID NOT kill the six million Jews in Europe during World War II - Hitler and the Nazis did! The massacre that took place in Cambodia in the '70's was not carried out by God, but by the evil leaders in that country at the time. God is not to blame for the crime in the cities and the drive-by shootings that take place every day now - the gangs and the criminals that perpetrate these evil deeds are responsible. God is not to blame for the millions of babies that have been, and are being aborted in the United States since 1973 - the wicked doctors who do it for the profit they can make are! So are the judges who sit on the Supreme Court who continue to sanction this form of murder! So are the Congressmen and Senators who refuse to pass laws banning the wickedness! And so are the preachers who won't preach against sin! There are lots of people to blame, but God IS NOT TO BLAME!

Men blame and accuse God because He says they must be saved while He is calling or run the risk of never being called again. God is not to be blamed here either. God is not the one who hardens his heart, it is man who does that. God's desire to save a man doesn't lessen because the man refuses to hear his voice the first time He calls. What happens is the man's heart gets hard and it is harder for him to hear God's voice the next time he calls. So it isn't that God is giving an ultimatum when He says, "Today, if you hear his voice . . .," it is simply a warning for man's own good. Some men have perceived this as God changing his mind toward men. If He calls and they refuse, then He no longer wants to save them, but in fact will delight when they are cast off into hell, and mock them and roll with laughter. I have actually heard this preached many times. But the truth is that God is NEVER willing that ANY should perish. God didn't want Nero Caesar or Adolf Hitler to perish. Jesus died in their place as much as He did for anyone else, but they refused until it was too late for them.

Men blame God for the death of loved ones. This is something that happens very commonly. Death is so cruel and unmerciful. When we suffer the loss of a close loved one we quickly come to the fork in the road. As we try to come to grips with the reality of the death and separation from this person we loved, we must either become bitter at God or we must trust Him and experience His comfort through the Holy Ghost and the Word of God. Because of the madness in a lost person's heart he will look at the graveyard and curse God because his loved one died. However, the person who knows anything about God knows that God is not the author or cause of death - SIN is. And it is MAN'S OWN SIN that has brought death into the world. God never intended for men to die, and it was never his will for death to reign as it does now. God didn't mean for there to be any graveyards in the world, they are MAN'S doings. So when you want to hate someone, or blame someone for the death of a loved one, blame sin and hate the devil, but don't cast the blame on God, for He is NOT TO BLAME.

Men blame God for their own sin, saying He created them with a sinful nature that makes them sinners from the day they are born. But it was not God who put the desire for tobacco in a person - they did that themselves. You were not born with an evil eye - you got that from indulging yourself in unrestrained lust. It becomes your nature, all right, but God didn't give it to you, and you weren't born with it. You developed it yourself by abusing the natural desires that God DID give you. No sex pervert is born that way! No drunkard is born that way! No one is born with a filthy mouth uttering profanities! These are all learned and acquired by self-indulgence with no regard for God or other men. They quickly become habit, rule of life, and the nature of the man. According to Webster's 1828 Dictionary, a nature is: "The essence, essential qualities or attributes of a thing, which constitute it what it is;" (Rom 6:19) ". . . for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness." Men are servants to sin because they have yielded themselves to be servants to sin - not because God gave them a sinful nature. Then men have the gall to turn around and blame it on God! What an outrageous blasphemy against the person of God!

After all the evil had come upon Job, and it looked like the rest of his life would be spent in loneliness and poverty, this was Job's attitude:

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. - Job 1:20-22

That is the difference between faith and foolishness That is the difference between the wicked and the righteous. . That is the difference between the blind and those who can see. God is NOT TO BLAME!

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