Who can say that they have been hurt by someone or a group of people and they claimed to be Christians. Whether it was a parent that was one way at church then abused you at home or you were touched inappropriately by a church staff person or any situation where you were mentally scarred by someone claiming Jesus was their savior. I'm not talking about arguing over the color of carpet or what VBS program to use this year, I'm talking about deep pain suffered at the hands of someone in the church. It happens more frequently than not unfortunately and as a result, bitterness sets in towards God. Questions come up like, why didn't God stop them or where was He when I was being abused?
God is limited by His love. If that sounds a bit weird, it is to our ears because we always want to impose our will upon others. The argument is this, if a person is doing evil and you stand by and let them do evil, do you not inadvertently participate in that evil. No! Here's why. Love cannot impose it's will upon someone else. It can hope for that person, it can love that person regardless of their actions but it cannot force them to do anything. It can show them the difference between their actions and His actions but it cannot force action. Remember, love is patient, love is kind..... Those word are what God is. If He killed or punished or maimed a person for doing evil to another person, we would have no one on Earth. We would all be destroyed the moment we did something wrong as infants. God created grace for a reason, so that those forgiven could repent and come to Him.
So, it's not Gods fault people do unspeakable things to others. When Adam fell, he embraced the character and nature of Satan. Because like begets like, when Adam had children, the nature Adam received from the serpent was passed down to his kids. Selfishness entered the world and it produced offspring. Offspring have no choice to how they are born. A new dolphin baby cannot request to be a sea lion and a monkey cannot request to be a tiger upon entering this world. The children of that animal or person will inherit the physical traits of their parents. When it comes to us, we have an eternal soul and it is dominated by the nature of our parents when we enter this world. It learns to be selfish through selfish behavior. Thus, those that hurt others, have not been dealt a fair hand. They were born into iniquity yet God has given us a way out of it. In all of human history, only in the last 2,000 years have we had a choice. We are born in one nature not of our choice, but God has opened the door and given us a choice to change what we were born into.
Yet in all that God has done and offered us, we still blame Him for other peoples free will. Don't blame Him for what He didn't do. The father of lies, the devil, who deceived Adam and Eve in the garden created this mess we are in and continues to provoke us by turning us on each other then convincing us it's not his fault but Gods. What a master manipulator he is. He throws us to the dogs to be chewed to pieces then he gets us to blame someone else for it. Stop blaming others, stop blaming God and start creating a relationship with the only one who can rescue us from the lie.
To God be the Glory!
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