Why Does God Pour Out His Wrath if He Causes Us to Err?

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Why Does God Pour Out His Wrath On Us If He Has Caused Us To Err?

Dear Mike and Company,

I’ve really been blessed since I discovered your website and the teachings there.  I’m a third generation “missionary” living overseas.  I had gotten to the point where I was just ready to chuck it all and go and chop wood in Alaska or something!  Finding you and some others has turned me around to read and study the Scriptures again.  Thanks.

I have a question.  I’m sure that you have probably answered this question on the website somewhere, but I haven’t found it yet.  If man doesn’t have free will in the way we have thought he did traditionally, if Adam simply did what came naturally to him in his carnal nature which God gave him, and we have done the same, then why is the wrath of God against us?  If no man can come to the Father unless He draw him, and if He hardens hearts and blinds eyes, then why is he angry, and why does he “hold us responsible?”

If you’ve already dealt with this question on the site, maybe it would be easier to just send me the link(s) where you did answer it.

Blessings,

C____

Hi C____,

It is so good to hear that you are being edified by what you have been reading.

You ask why God holds us responsible and why He pours out His wrath upon us if we have no free will and if God made us to be sinners?

The answer is that God does not hold us “responsible” for anything. The fact of the matter is that the word ‘responsible’ is not to be found in the Bible. We are never held either ‘responsible’ or ‘accountable’. What God does require of us is that we “give an accounting” of what He has caused to take place within these vessels of clay we call our bodies. Why does He require even that?

The answer to that question is that God has decreed that we all learn through contrasts. We know what light is only by first knowing what darkness is, what hot is only in comparison to cold and what fidelity is only by first being “enmity against God.” By pouring out His wrath upon us He “causes us to err and hardens our hearts”. Then by his own sovereign will, He causes us to cry out to Him to save us from our crushing trials. Then and only then, He delivers us from this sad spiritual state, turns our stormy seas into a very calm “sea of glass” (Rev 15:1-8).

We covered this very subject in our study in the book of Job.The notes and the video are posted on iswasandwillbe.com. Read those studies and if you still have a question please get back to me.

I hope to hear from you again.

Your brother in “the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings”.

Mike

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