Have you ever been mad at God?

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Michlow

I was mad at God for a long time (seething rage might be a more accurate description). Or at least I thought I was. The truth is that I wasn't really mad at God, I was angry that a construct that I was taught was God's character proved faulty. Eventually I realized that I was angry at God, because other humans taught me things about God that wasn't true.

Even though I knew that it wasn't God's fault, I had a hard time, because I felt that God could have prevented them from giving me an inaccurate view of Him. Eventually I stopped whining about the past, and started asking him to help me clean up the mess.

"Is God to Blame" by Gregory A. Boyd, really helped me a lot.

Doh! I still haven't reordered that book. Will now. Stand by ... ... ... Done! This time, the receipt looks right. (For those of you wondering, I tried to order this once before, and accidentally got the wrong book. My fault or theirs, not sure. Probably mine, though.)

BTW, despite how my posts may sound, I don't actually blame God for anything. I just don't hold him Him to any of the "promises" that are attributed to Him. I don't believe He would ever promise something He had no intention of (always) doing, like John 16:23 or James 5:15. I don't think He wants us to ask Him to do things for us. He wants us to make our own way, live at peace with each other, help and love each other, and use common sense. Use the brains He gave us. That's all.