If anyone does listen to the podcast, I've got a response from a listener that we completely ignored Job and other situations where God allowed bad things to happen.
Just to clarify (and put out for discussion here), what was said was that most of the time, we blame God for things He had no hand in and no will for us to experience. He gave us free will and there is a law of sowing and reaping. The Bible says clearly the wages of sin is death. If we sow bad seed, we reap a bad harvest. For example, and this happened to me personally, I had a terrible diet from childhood. I always consumed way too much junk. If I had to guess, I'd say half my diet was white bread/sugar and it caused me to get Fatty Liver Disease which progressed into Cirrhosis (non-alcoholic). Now I grant you, being told in 2017 I had 6 months to live without a liver transplant did bring me back to God and I've never left Him since, it was not God's will for me to bear this. It has been, however, His grace that has kept me going. It's now 2022 and still no need for a liver transplant,. My stage of cirrhosis was actually downgraded from Stage 4 to Stage 3, hallelujah! But God did not send a bad thing on me, I did it by exercising my own free will. Of course there are special situations (like the man blind sine birth whom Jesus healed) but the reality is, we have a free will, we have an enemy, and if we leave ourselves wide open to the one who wants to kill, steal, and destroy, God is not the one to blame, amen?
