Why do people blame God when He turned it all over to man at the beginning?

Question

What's the deal? Why do people like to put the blame on someone else?

Isn't that what Adam and Eve did?

Is it all about the blame game?

Answer 1

First, you have to blame "the other guy". It's all his fault! Next, you have to blame the neighbor or some other close by "easy target". God is at the top of the totem pole. When all else fails, blame God. See... many will blame God for the bad, but take credit themselves for the good. A win/win situation there!

SOMEbody has to take the blame!



Not how I actually do things, but how many others see it.

Answer 2

The Old Testament does not describe a god who turned everything over to man. It describes a god who got intimately and personally involved with everything that went on with his chosen people. At what point do you think God left the world for humans to run? What scriptures back that up?



The idea that God turned it all over to man in the beginning is a new doctrine designed to explain away the failure of God to do anything about the evil in the world. It's not blame, it's pointing out a very real problem with the religion.

Answer 3

Your non-existent god is portrayed as a psychopath in the Bible. What kind of head-games was he playing on Adam and Eve?! He left two uneducated naked people in a jungle populated by beasts of all kinds, including a talking snake, and planted a big-as-the-nose-on-your-face APPLE TREE in the middle of it. Then he told Adam and Eve that they couldn't have any of those apples.



Say what?! So that talking snake came along and convinced Eve, who was apparently already ascribed the role of chief cook and bottle washer in Eden, to add some apple slices to the salad she was making for lunch. And that's when the psychopath god came crashing through "paradise" in a rage, screaming for Adam and Eve to present themselves for punishment. Anyone would hide themselves away in those circumstances. But who gets the blame? Eve, of course!



Your god, even though he never has existed, represents the very worst aspects of the domineering men who made-up the Bible and all of religions.

Answer 4

Well I'm an atheist, so I don't blame god, but I hold the religions accountable for the wrongs they commit.



However, when I meet people who are bitter or angry about a god they believe in, I can understand why they are that way.



It is shockingly irresponsible to create life and then to leave it to it's own devices, knowing that it is flawed, and merely terrifying these flawed, weak creatures, with a punishment that is so cruel and so terrible that it is incomprehensible, and giving them a number of rules that cannot always be realistically followed.



If there is a god, you can damn well bet that it is to blame!

Answer 5

Because alot of people were told by the church (and believed it) that Adam and Eve were exiled from paradise by God. An original judgement...therefore people grow up believing that God causes that which we are so is also responsible for that which we are not.



The lessons the church indoctrinate us with are why people blame God. People fail to see that they themselves ARE God.

Answer 6

Did you hear about that guy who got wasted and had his 8 year old drive him home because he already had a DUI?



Yeah, I'd still blame the parent for any damages.

Answer 7

People love to point the finger outward when it comes to blame. Funny, we love to point the finger inward when it comes to positive stuff. Thing is, people don't want to take responsibility for their negative choices.

Answer 8

Well ......... ? .......... put the "blame game" aside for a moment .....

I am not ...atheist .... I am willing to believe something ......

that someone or something flipped the switch .....however .....

I have not heard a reasonable story yet ........sooooooo ......

I see no "one" or any "single thing" to blame .......only a bunch

of half-baked ideas .......and there always seems to be other

versions in the oven ....ready for some zealot to distribute to the masses .......

if there is "blame" to be assigned ...it goes to to the undiscerning consumer .....

....... Buyer Beware ......

Answer 9

Well said , that's human nature , they take good credits and blames god if anything happens against them . god knows every thing what these people are doing . its simply nothing but blaming others .

Answer 10

I dont. I know many who dont. The funny thing is that its usually the atheists that do this. Go figure. Romans 1:28 God Bless

Answer 11

I don't blame "god", I blame those who are foolish enough to believe in him.

Answer 12

Correct. he should have turned over to woman

Answer 13

Whatelse to do with that pointing finger ?

Answer 14

more of a talkingshit game, if we are being honest.