Have You Been Criticising God?
“But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? ‘Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” – Romans 9:20
On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published a 47-page pamphlet titled “Common Sense”, which became a best-seller and was read by more than 2 million people. By virtue of this Thomas Paine was dubbed “The Father of the American Revolution”.
In 1794, Paine published a work entitled “The Age of Reason” and devoted much of this pamphlet to challenging the authority of the Bible. He carries out his attack by listing out objections as he reads through the Bible; in fact, almost half the pamphlet is dedicated to this effort. The majority of his attacks involve claims to evidence against traditional authorship, accounts of divinely-mandated moral injustices, and contradictions within the text.
Because of his attacks on the Bible, President Theodore Roosevelt called Thomas Paine a ‘Filthy Little Atheist,’ and his legacy as the Father of the American Revolution has largely been forgotten.
The opposite of praising God is mocking and criticizing Him. Confess any sin of criticism and praise the Lord for He is good.
“The most insanely daring thing that any man can do, the most exceedingly foolish thing any man can do, the most desperately wicked thing that any man can do, is to reply against God, to enter into controversy with God, to criticize God, to condemn God. Yet that is what many people are doing.” – R.A. Torrey
“You turn things upside down as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘You did not make me’ Can the pot say to the potter, ‘You know nothing’?” – Isaiah 29:16