Why do people say god is responsible when good thinks happen to them but dont blame him when bad stuff does?
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This is a common religious practice known as "selective observation." People who are religious will count good things that happen in the world as proof of God's existence, while either ignoring the bad, or passing it along to another (god-created) source.
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We live in a fallen world.  God gave us a chance, and we blew it.  Ever since, God's Word has not failed.  They ate of the fruit, and all of creation began to die.  \n\nWhy blame God for the fault of man?  As to the issues of people starving while others are overweight, that is also man's fault.  There is more than enough resources for the world to be fed.  Countries who suffer famine in Africa (just one example) take donated resources and are diverted by tyrants who then distribute food to their cronies.
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Someone is punished for the wrong he did and that is punishment.If you are punished and you die in the cause of the punishment, you must have merited it.\n   On the other hand if God allow you to be passing through some difficulties we can call it trials.God may do that to see how much you love Him or He may do that to glorify His name at the end. The point here is that if you remain faithful to God until you die in that situation, that is not punishment.Look at the trials Job had in the Bible. His wife even asked him to curse God and die but he refused and said it is God that gave and He has taken back. Look at what happened to him at the end. You see how God showed his power? If you do not know the story read Job.\nI live in Cameroon, the neighbour to Nigeria.
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Simple answer:  Because bad thing happen to good people.\n\nIf nothing bad ever happened to good people, you would not need laws.  If anyone who did something bad was punished...visably...quickly...and justly...by some cosmic force, you would not need laws.  However, that does not happen.  While God does dole out the enternal reward or allow you to be tormented, he tends to reserve this for the afterlife.\nIn THIS life, we need jails.
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God can touch or heal according to his will, and often does.\nWe cannot know all things as God does - but he never wills harm to anyone, it is not possible for him because of who he is.\nThe reason we have awful things, wars, hunger, poverty, mental illness - is because we chose to rebel against God, to sin, and we live in the consequences of sin - in a broken world. Again, the terrible things of this world are not God's desire or will.\nHe would not create things to harm them - his way is love, forgives, grace, mercy.
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good luck or bad luck does not exist friend, most of it are the consequence of our actions, or God just let it happen. by believing in luck, you are not submitting to God's authority in our life which means things can go into chances. you are not a product of a by-chance, you are not an accident, and so are the things around you.
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If you believe there is something that was not created (god) then you are opening a precedent, paving the way to believing that others things needed not be created (eg, universe).\nTherefore, even those who believe in God shouldn't necessarily believe that the universe was created!
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Good questions!  I like good subjest matter.  God is not some bug eyed monster up in the sky.  Why would he be all hateful when he needs us as much as we need him?  We do have free will, and i can do whatever i want because of it, but heres the rub, i was created by something with a view of the bigger picture.  So by virture of where i was born and my personality there are huge sections of human reality that will never even occur to me to do because of who and what i was made to be. Example : kiss my boyfriend, you betcha!; eat chocolate covered ants, hell no!
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Its in our nature to blame others for things we go through especially when that someone is  God. You need to learn to control your anger. Trust God when you go through trials. When you lose control of a situation let him have control. Some times things wont go the way we want it to and you need to except that fact and move on with life.
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I think its for the same reason people thank God when something goes well. In both cases, they don't want to take responsibility for their actions.
781978
Bad things happen to us all and so do good things that is life. It is how we deal with the bad times though that define what kind of person we really are. Somewhere high above us or all around us, depending on how or what you believe, God is watching and waiting to see how you deal with life. It is the choices you make here that will define the life you have after this one is done.
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The Angels messed there playground up so god made man and man is doing the something maybe worse....but the way I see it god didn't create man man created god..He's someone to thank when things go your way and also someone to blame when they don't
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If there is a god, he could do whatever he wants.  \n\nPeople say god can't sin but when you ask what sin is, the usually define it as going against the will of god.\n\nOf course god won't go against his own decisions.  That doesn't mean he won't be an evil bastard.  His will could be to torture you for no reason.  Tough luck for you.  Since his will is what believers define as good, torturing you is good.\n\nIn fact defining "good" as whatever is in god's will makes the word "good" meaningless.  The word "good" shold be defined outside of god's thoughts or action, then we can determine if god is good or not.\n\nOr, to make things much easier, we can realize that god doesn't exist and be done with it.
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God is responsible for everything, so you can blame God for anything you want.
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I can say that I have asked that same question when my daughter was in an accident. I sat next to her bed begging for a miracle and a healing from her injuries. What I got at the time was nothing, so I thought. We don't always know why some prayers are answered and some aren't. It didn't mean that GOD was not there, it just means that sometimes our will is not in line with his. I struggled with prayer after her death because I felt forsaken anyway alittle over a year later my best friend called to tell me her son had been in an accident. On the way to the hospital I had this conversation with God and made the comment I don't know what to ask for just give me the strength to help her through whatever she had to endure. As I related that situation to another friend I made the comment It doesn't matter how much faith we have if it's not Gods will. With that said, sometimes it's more a question of whether we will still believe and stay strong or will we blame GOD. It was not GODs fault that my daughter was in that accident. It was the bad choices made by others that caused it. We have to go to our Father in Heaven in good and bad. It is through him that peace will come if we are patient. I have learned many things in the past couple of years but what and when I've learned them have been upon my williness to subject myself to the Fathers will knowing that ultimatly he knows what is best for me. I don't know if that helps, but it is all about learning and growing and sometimes we have to do the work, but that doesn't mean he's not bearing us up, we just don't realize it.
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Many different people have different beliefs. I believe that God is around no matter what your doing. He is even around when you think. God knows what you are going to do and who your going to do it with weather it be sex, education, theft, or murder before you do it. However, all things happen for a reason, even the bad things.
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I've never heard anyone blame God for anything.\n\nI think the general rule of thumb is that we (the opposition) generally wonder why, if God is all-loving, AND all-powerful, AND all-merciful, AND all-compassionate,etc... does he not step in to STOP (or at least intervene in) the 'destruction and unexplained deaths'. \n\nThere is no answer for that. The whole claim is perposterous!\nI think if anything good did happen - we would jump up and down looking for the 'God' behind it. But so far.... the well has been found to be dry and wanting.