Why Do People Blame God For Everything Going Wrong?

@PoeticPlay I don't care what credentials you have, status doesn't make you a Christian. And if you were a Christian, you would know why we need a Savior and you wouldn't have to be asking me. Further, your profile doesn't match what you say but speaks of a different lifestyle. You better clean it up. And for a pastor, that's an awfully dark Avatar. The one that says "I do very bad things."

@PoeticPlay God didnt give humans authority over angels.

@Cloud7593 Right. But later, Paul does ask the Church of Corinth,“Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life”(1 Cor 6:3)? Which angels the saints are to judge is not made clear, but it could refer to judging fallen angels or demons. Paul doesn’t elaborate, but we will judge angels. That much we know. I believe they will more likely, be demons. Perhaps it will be those who have harassed us and oppressed us all of our Christian life. We just can say for sure, but for sure we can say, the saints will judge the angel’s in the coming kingdom, however, that doesn’t mean we have authority over them today.

@Elessar But what about Hilary????????????

@walabby I thought they had imprisoned them already? You know, as soon as the guy who promised to "lock her up" took office and started fulfilling all his electoral promises 😌

@Elessar lmfaoooo I’m so sorry I’m just aggravating you. I saw the opportunity and had to take it 🤭

@DocSavage "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the lord do all these things." Isaiah 45:7

@Emosaur He clensed me from the inside he healed my inner wounds what more do I need. You wouldn't get it till he enters your life trust me. I was in your shoes once upon a time.

@Lichocolati What evidence have you that whatever you felt was due to one specific god rather than one of thousands of others or even no god at all? Maybe you were helped by Odin. Can you prove otherwise?

@Adstar wisdom 👆

@Adstar Well said.

@Lichocolati
Why not accept the fact that. They aren’t processed, and that they’re just really bad people ?
That’s what I was referring to earlier. You’re blaming demons, for what evil humans are doing.

@DocSavage they allowed them in, that’s where they should take personal responsibility

@cherokeepatti
They allowed who ( or what in ) ? You’re still blaming imaginary demons for
Basic human greed and cruelty. God gives you free will, and when it’s used in ways he doesn’t like, you scream “the Devil made me do it !”

@OogieBoogie
If you are asking about the King of Tyre being in the Garden of Eden, the story is in Ezekiel chapter 28 = https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel+28&version=ERV (Read the whole chapter).

Ezekiel 28:11-19 (ERV) = "11 The word of the Lord came to me. He said, 12 “Son of man, sing this sad song about the king of Tyre. Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord God says:

“‘You were the perfect man—
so full of wisdom and perfectly handsome.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God.
You had every precious stone—
rubies, topaz, and diamonds,
beryls, onyx, and jasper,
sapphires, turquoise, and emeralds.
And each of these stones was set in gold.
You were given this beauty on the day you were created.
God made you strong.
14 You were one of the chosen Cherubs
who spread your wings over my throne.
I put you on the holy mountain of God.
You walked among the jewels that sparkled like fire.
15 You were good and honest when I created you,
but then you became evil.
16 Your business brought you many riches.
But they also put cruelty inside you, and you sinned.
So I treated you like something unclean
and threw you off the mountain of God.
You were one of the chosen Cherubs
who spread your wings over my throne.
But I forced you to leave the jewels
that sparkled like fire.
17 Your beauty made you proud.
Your glory ruined your wisdom.
So I threw you down to the ground,
and now other kings stare at you.
18 You did many wrong things.
You were a very crooked merchant.
In this way you made the holy places unclean.
So I brought fire from inside you.
It burned you!
You burned to ashes on the ground.
Now everyone can see your shame.

19 “‘All the people in other nations
were shocked about what happened to you.
What happened to you will make people very afraid.
You are finished!’”

It is very difficult to read the Bible in a paper book format because it's so hard to make connections between ideas in different stories.

I suggest using a site like biblegateway.com. It has all of the English language versions so you can compare passages in the versions to increase your understanding. And, you can search by key words which will give you all of the verses in a version that contains that key word. That also helps your understanding.

For example, the ERV has 18 results for "Eden", which also includes three for the name of a guy.
https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=eden&resultspp=250&version=ERV

The KJV has 19 results for "Eden."
https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=eden&resultspp=250&version=KJV

The DRA version only has 6 =
https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=eden&resultspp=250&version=DRA

Once you get in the habit of doing that it can open-up your mind to a new way of thinking about the biblical stories.

You remember how the serpent tempted Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Now compare that story to Ezekiel chapter 31 = https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel+31&version=TLB

Can you see the connection between the serpent in Genesis chapter 3 and the Egyptian pharaoh in Ezekiel chapter 31?

@Diotrephes im interested in how the bible is wtitten , and translations.
And its history .
I think it has history to tell, but that its been translated badly over and over , and symbolism has been taken verbatim.
It has so much in it . And i yhink very old complex stories have been abbreviated down so much they contain only the essence of what they once were.

He sounds like satan with this 'perfection '. Maybe he WAS in the garden of eden .

Thanks for the tip , ill check it out.

@OogieBoogie
A good site to get get started on the history is https://greatsite.com/english-bible-history/.

&
https://rockingodshouse.com/why-were-14-books-apocrypha-removed-from-the-bible-in-1881/

&
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Amiatinus
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/codex-amiatinus
https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668243
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=188

You can do further research using those as starting points. You won't find an original copy of St. Jerome's Bible. They use it as a red herring.
But if you do, please post it.

@SW-User Isn't this contradictory to free will then? If going against gods will results in horrific punishments where is the freedom to decide for ourselves then.

@SW-User There is nothing to say that you still can't make the right choices, lol.

Really though, we need to consider that God was *trying* to discourage practices that were specific to that time, and that it isn't really applicable now. It was also trying to address the responsibility that we bear for other people (particularly our children). If we commit harm and we have children or will have them, then we know that harm could affect them as well. This again points to our free will and whether we, not God, are willing to cause harm to those around us through our actions.

@Rhode57 That sounds like ignorance to me.

@Lichocolati Its is sadly but its also part of human nature we just have to accept

@Rhode57
Don't take it too seriously? Jesus took it very seriously, when He died on the cross so that your and my sins could be forgiven, and you could have eternal life in heaven with Him.

@DocSavage You do realize you just contradicted yourself in your statement?

@Lichocolati
You bring up summoning demons. How many people do you actually think do that in the world today ? Humans can mess up the planet more than a spirit can.

@GJOFJ3 Those that praise god when good things happen rarely blame it when things go wrong.

@BackyardShaman Manny people have commented on my posts blaming God.

@ABCDEF7 Yet!

@ABCDEF7 That's because non-existant beings can't do anything.

@InHeaven But He will.

@Diotrephes
Ta dah!

@ChipmunkErnie You're funny 😂

@Lichocolati Thank you -- and so are you. Keep trying to make sense of your superstition so I can keep laughing.

@ChipmunkErnie Stop projecting your beliefs on me please. Sounds like you're the superstitious one here not me.

@badminton

@PoeticPlay You make it sound easy and it's not. My life used to be controlled by these demonic voices and I was in my own jail cell all through my teenage years and 20s but God🙌🏾🙌🏾
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@BittersweetPotato What about the fact that he gave us free will. Why do they not take responsibility for their own actions.

@Sharon
Some Christians, I assume, but I did not know that.

He did use the word "God" on occasion, though. I suspect his concept of God is similar to mine. I concluded there is God (a number of names could substitute) by way of fact, reason and observation, including information from science, philosophy and the observation of nature, as well as study of the world's religions (including those non-Abrahamic such as Taoism and Zen).

I'm not a Christian nor am I religious. (But I respect all religions).

@DffrntDrmmr Stephen Hawking later disagreed with Einstein saying "God does play dice with the universe and throws them where we can't see them." That, too, was seized upon by some christians as proof that he (Stephen Hawking) believed in their god. However, when he died, there were some christians rejoicing that he was now burning in Hell because he didn't believe in their god. 🤔 There are probably more versions of christianity than there are christians.

@Sharon Interesting!

I wasn't as impressed with Hawking's mind as some (though he's obviously exceptional). I suspect his unique physical circumstances contributed to his fame. Of course, there were his brilliantly conceived book "A Brief History of Time," and his ideas on string theory, too, but he was no Einstein. 😋

I tend to agree with Einstein's view of it based on the perspective that One underlies all else, including randomness theorized in modern quantum theory. A most elementary foundation has just likely escaped revelation to this point.

Makes me think it's possible that Al reasoned "God" as ultimate reality, as I do.