01/24/2026
Rebels Rebel Against the Good King & Then Fault Him for Not Helping Them in Their Rebellion
Atheist comment in another Facebook group:
"Was the +6 millions in the German WWII extermination camps "a consequence of man's sinful rebellion"? What had they done - except being born as Jews? And what are earthquakes, pandemics and famines for; are those calamities mankind's own fault as well? If so, how and why?
But no worries; I wouldn't have that creepy god of yours served on a gold platter, and I find the whole hypocritical fake holier-than-thou attitude of the Christians extremely unpleasant - so, again, you can have him with my blessing. And that is it."
McCann reply:
Obviously yes, they died as a result of man's sinful actions.
Jews as well as Gentiles are all born sinners (Psalm 58:3). Since our first parents were sinners all that have come forth from them likewise are sinners (cannot bring a clean out of the unclean-which is a statement written in Hebrew in the book of Job).
Your perspective on these things is a limited finite creature perspective. You look at it as though this Almighty God should have kept these awful things from happening from people. Yet, the God of the Bible is under no obligation to protect and ensure safe long lives for those who are in rebellion against Him.
Consider what you're saying on a natural level. Let's say there's a good ruler (king) and within his kingdom many revolt. They demand that he not rule over them. In fact, they live without any thought of this king. Except perhaps to shake their fist at him.
And yet, in a most perplexing way, whenever things go wrong in their newly established rebel outpost-they assign the blame to the good king. He's responsible for the evil one group of us just did to the other group of us.
And if the earth quakes, that was the good king's fault. Or if a plagues strikes the land-the good king should have stopped the plague and prevented those people from dying.
This is basically the world towards God. They rebel. And their rebellion does not go good at all (take a look out your window-doesn't matter where you are on earth right now its the same story everywhere). And stunningly manage to blame the One they rebelled against for all the ills, all the wrongs, all the evils that have come upon them during the time of their open rebellion against Him.
Now, you probably will continue to use this line of attack on God. But as far as all that is proper and right and even according to good sense-God bears no responsibility for all the bad things the rebels go through. It is fully their responsibility. Results and consequences of their rebellion against Him.
