Blaming God

Human nature does not change over time. We commit the same sins as our first parents did when they got humanity kicked out of the physical presence of God in the Garden. Whether Adam actually understood what he was saying is debatable, but regardless of that, he blamed God for his subsequent fall. (Genesis 3:12) “And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.” Notice Adam said, “the woman thou gavest …”. In effect, Adam said it was God’s fault. In Adam’s mind, God set the stage for Adam’s fall into sin by giving him a woman. And throughout history, mankind has continued on this path of blaming God for whatever goes wrong. How often have we heard the voices of anger toward God for anything that goes wrong? Nobody cusses the devil for the evil. No, they all scream their anger at God with curses and accusations of Him not caring because He did not stop the bad things. First, God the Father did not send Jesus Christ to make this earth into heaven. Our redemption is for the heaven to come for eternity [John 14:1-3]. Second, for God to “fix” everything in this life, He would have to put an end to all sin, and that means all sinners as well. God would have to put us all in hell right now. Instead, God is longsuffering because He is giving another day for people to repent [II Peter 3:9]. I have noticed that some of the doctrines that have revived in popularity are basically ways of blaming God. Calvinism, or its rebranded name of “the doctrine of grace”, has become popular again. It claims to stand for the grace of God, but ultimately is just blaming God for people going to hell. If God predestines people to heaven or hell, then for anyone to go to hell is God’s fault. He did not choose them. On the surface, Calvinism sounds good and uses a circle of Scripture. In an entire systematic theology is falls apart quickly. God does allow people to say no to His grace [Acts 7:51]. Jesus did die for the sins of the whole world [I John 2:2]. God’s will is that everybody be saved [II Peter 3:9] but some refuse it. And God allows you to make a choice [Joshua 24:15, “choose you this day whom ye will serve …”]. But in the end, it boils down to mankind blaming God. In this doctrine, if everybody is predestined for heaven or hell with no choice, then God predestined them and it is therefore God’s fault if they are not saved. JUST LIKE ADAM SAID. The doctrine of the Impeccability of Christ is another that blames God. This doctrine teaches that the temptations of Christ were just a play-act. Because Jesus is God, He cannot be tempted by sin [James 1:13]. So Jesus could not actually be tempted and that is why He did not sin. Humanity, on the other hand, is quite capable of sin and that is why we do so. In other words, I can not help it that I sin because God made me this way. It is God’s fault. Again, this doctrine falls apart in light of all the Scripture. Jesus is God manifest in the flesh [I Timothy 3:16] but He limited Himself for us. Can God get hungry? Suffer? Bleed? Or even die? No. But Jesus Christ did all of those things. God in His eternal glory cannot be tempted, but God manifest in human flesh can [Hebrews 4:15]. The purpose of this writing was simply a reminder that we need to be careful in what we say or accept as truth. The last thing we want to do is have to face God at the judgment and explain why we blamed Him for the choices we made.