Why Blame God?
Because Mankind has suffered thousands of years of misery, pain and death, some will blame God for all of that suffering. "Why has he permitted it to go on for so long like that," some will complain! But did Jehovah cause all of that misery that has been inflicted on Mankind? "But he has the power to bring it to an end," they'll complain." True! He does, and his intention is to do just that. "Why hasn't he done it sooner," they'll continue to complain." Usually that is because they have been directly effected with some of that pain and suffering, and they are having a very difficult time in dealing with it, because it has touched them personally, now. Through the pen of his Prophet Isaiah, Jehovah tells us this about his unfailing word:
10 "As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." {Isaiah 55:10,11 NIV}
When he had put the pair in the Garden he said this to them:
28 "God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."{Genesis 1:28 NIV}
They had started out as two perfect, righteous, sinless, Humans, with the opportunity for everlasting life on a beautiful Park-Like Paradise. With Jehovah's blessing upon them. Had Adam not have fallen he would have passed on to Mankind, the righteous human perfection he had started out with. Because he sinned willfully, rather than being the righteous, perfect Man he started out as, he became a sinner, and rather than pass on righteous human perfection, with everlasting life in view, he passed on now, only what he possessed; sin, and the subsequent result of that, death. Now on Adam's account we are all dying sinners. {Romans 5:12}
Is all of that Jehovah's fault? Should we blame him for Adam's Fall into sin? Should we blame him for the thousands of years of misery Adam's fall brought upon all Mankind? That was not Jehovah's purpose for Mankind. He wanted Man to live forever! To never die! Someone though, wanted all mankind dead! By inducing Adam to eat of that fruit,through his Wife Eve, he [satan] actually succeeded in murdering the human-race, right at its inception. Most already know who this someone was!
What was it that started it all off, in that Garden? Jehovah's own words will explain that:
16"And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." {Genesis 2:16,17 ESV}
So! Nothing too difficult! Obey one simple command, in exchange for everlasting life on a paradise earth.
What happens? Along comes satan the devil, Jehovah's great adversary, who knew all along what Jehovah had said regarding the Tree they were not to touch. Playing ignorant of that, he asked the Woman if God had really said that:
1 "Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" 2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' " 4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves."{Genesis 3:1-6 NIV}
Can anyone imagine just what satan is like? He knows full well if he can get the pair to eat of that tree, they would die, without any doubt in his mind at all. Further to that he would also have known, the entire human-race would be murdered if he could get them to eat of that Tree, because, being as crafty, as he was, he would have known the entire human-race would come from the loins of Adam, and Adam losing perfection, would pass on imperfection, sin and death to all proceeding generations to come. So, whose really to blame for the thousands of years of suffering and death? The one Jesus called, the 'liar and the Father of the lie." All the blame rests on the shoulders of satan the devil, not Jehovah God. {John 8:44}
How did Jehovah rectify matters right there in the Garden, and how did he show by his words to satan, that it would take thousands of years of human suffering, before all of that suffering would end? Note his words to satan first:
15 "I will put hostility between you and the woman,and between your seed and her seed.He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel." {Genesis 3:15 HCSB}
We see, Jehovah foretold two seeds! The seed of his heavenly Woman, and the seed of satan the devil, of which between there would be great hatred.
At that very instance Jehovah had signed the death warrent of his Son, who was the principle or main seed, as well as, all the close followers of his Son, who constituted part of that seed.
This seed was to come through the Family line of faithful Abraham, that would lead right to the Christ. Who would receive a heel wound from satan at his crucification. Paul explains:
16 "Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say "and to seeds," as though referring to many, but and to your seed, referring to one, who is Christ."{Galatians 3:16 HCSB}
We know from the Genesis account of creation it has been, up to now, approximately 6000 years, this human sufering has been allowed to go on. Jehovah knew it would take that long to produce the promised seed, who consisted of the Christ and the 144000 that would rule with him in his Father's Kingdom. Throughout all of that time period this hatred has raged, against the seed of Jehovah's Heavenly Woman. Throughout all of that time period Jehovah has carefully selected out from among Mankind those that would rule with his Son in heavenly glory, as King Priests.
Right there in that Garden those many thousands of years ago, Jehovah proposed a Kingdom with his Christ as King, with his 1444000 followers to restore this earth to the paradise like conditions, that would have existed now, but for the devils influence and Adam's fall into sin. Those conditions will come though! Make no mistake about that! Does that really work any hardship on any of us today, especially if we survive to gain everlasting life under that Kingdom? Why attribute anything bad to a God who has gone to so much trouble, heartache, and pain, himself, to see that all of us are set free from those things, for all eternity. Does he deserve any blame for that? Why, then, blame him for anything else now? If anything; how about a little credit for the following :
4 "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will exist no longer; grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer, because the previous things have passed away." {Revelation 21:4 HCSB}
7 "The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing."{Isaiah 14:7 ASV}
I'm hard-pressed to find any reason to blame him for an earth filled with joy, and peace, when all are singing! No one is in grief, sadness, or crying any tears, anymore, because a loved one has died, and there's no more pain from all the deseases that are running rampant now. Great reasons for singing, wouldn't you say? Living on a calm quiet, restful earth, with everything to sing about? That is the hope Jehovah has given all of us, so why question or doubt anything he's done in the past or may yet do in the future? What he has done has all been for us!
That's why he sent his Son to take away the sin of the World, inflicted upon us by satan causing Adam's fall. "God Loved the World so much that he gave his only begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not perish but have everlasting life." {John 3:16,17} Jehovah has reversed satan's actions, to our benefit, because no demon angel or human can thwart Jehovah's purpose for a paradise earth with perfect righteous, sinless humans, living on it forever. "My word that goes forth from my mouth will prove to be. It will not return to me without results, but it will certainly do that in which I have delighted and it will have certain success in that for which I have sent it." It will all come true! So, why blame God for anything? Put the blame where it rightfully belongs, and give the credit to whom it is rightfully due.
None of us will ever be able to repay him the credit, that is his natural due. So, why blame God? Wannabe