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Lv 4

Why is god thanked but never blamed?

I am curious as to why Christians, and people of other faiths, are so eager to thank god for the good things that happen, but when something bad happens, they rarely lay blame on him(or her or it). Say your brother was saved by medical providers after being in a horrible accident. You would thank god openly for sparing your brother. But if your brother died in that accident, you probably would not say "This is all god's fault, I can't believe he killed my brother." Why is it like this?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Same reason that no matter what happens, a Christian will say the prayer was answered.

    "Oh, the answer was just no" or "it wasn't in god's plan". Sure.

  • 9 years ago

    Consider what the Bible reports about a man named Job. Without warning, he suddenly lost his wealth. Next, all ten of his children were killed in a windstorm. Soon thereafter, he was struck with a debilitating, loathsome disease. (Job 1:13-19; 2:7, 8) Such adversities led Job to cry out: “The hand of God has struck me down.” (Job 19:21, Today’s English Version) Evidently, like many today, Job felt that God was punishing him.

    However, the Bible reveals that before Job’s trials began, God himself had described Job as “a man blameless and upright, fearing God and turning aside from bad.” (Job 1:8) In view of this expression of divine approval, it is clear that Job’s adversities were not a punishment from God.

    The fact is, the Bible is filled with accounts of upright individuals who faced personal adversities. Although he was a loyal servant of God, Joseph endured years of unjust imprisonment. (Genesis 39:10-20; 40:15) The faithful Christian Timothy suffered from “frequent cases of sickness.” (1 Timothy 5:23) Even Jesus Christ, who never did wrong, was cruelly mistreated before suffering an agonizing death. (1 Peter 2:21-24) Hence, it is a mistake to conclude that adversity must be an expression of God’s displeasure. But if God is not responsible for adversity, who, if anyone, is?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Because there is no God + unknown fear factor about that God thing.

    They do not know as to what to do with that thing and how to use that thing.

    Senselessness, foolishness, superstition, sentimentality and what not?

    We are responsible for our good and bad actions and not that non-existent God.

    God was created by human beings for the fear of unknown natural calamities and nothing else.

  • Esther
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Because God is not to blame for any evil in the world, ever. Death, disease, starvation, everything horrible human beings have happen to them is the result of the fall of the human race in the garden of Eden. Sin entered the world then and all human suffering can be traced back to the fall and to sin. I do not blame God because He is never, ever to blame.

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    Because God always works things out for the good.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    God gets blamed for nearly every bad thing that ever happens, have you not read 99% of the questions on here???

    A Christian would realize God didn't cause the accident

  • 9 years ago

    "God" was created by the constructs of the human mind.

    They scare themselves with their own creation out the fear and ignorance.

    It's quite pathetic really

  • 9 years ago

    Christ came to take all the Blame, so people could take it all out on him.

    Blame spelled backwards is E-Lamb.

  • 9 years ago

    The same reason he does not regrow the limbs of amputies.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Because you don't bite the hand that feeds you, or the one that can magick you into a car crash.

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