Blog Post Two “Stop Blaming God — You Were Given Free Will”

📝 BLOG POST

Stop Blaming God — You Were Given Free Will ✨

Let’s not waste time.

Stop blaming God. 🙏

If there is a God — and I believe there is — the first thing you should know is this:
He gave us free will. 🗝️
Every decision we make creates chain reactions.
The pain? The suffering? Much of it is self-inflicted.
That’s not His failure — that’s on us.

So when your world collapses and you look up and say, “Why would God let this happen?”
Ask yourself —
Why wouldn’t He? 🤷‍♂️

He gave us tools. ⚒️
Choices. 🔀
Warnings. ⚠️

Whether you believe in Him or not, blaming Him every time life hurts is cowardly.
Own your decisions. Own your humanity. 💪

Now — let’s talk real. 🎙️

I’m Christian. ✝️
I believe in Christ.
But do I know He’s the one true God?
Maybe. ❓✨

What I’ve come to realise is this:
I have diehard faith — which is basically the whole definition of belief. 🔥
And I choose to hold onto that belief, because I genuinely think there is a God.

And to me, I believe that’s Christ. 🙏💫

Probably. Most likely.

But then again… those are just my beliefs.
I don’t truly know. 🤔

⚡ The Spiritual Claim

Some people say they know God spiritually. Maybe they do. Maybe it’s real.

I’ve been in church enough times to see it.
Music blasting 🎶, voices crying out 😭, people shaking like WiFi on 1 bar…
Then suddenly someone yells:
“Jesus is in the house!” ✝️🔥

The pastor grabs the mic, blows into it like he’s charging a Kamehameha 💨🎤, and people around me start falling instantly — like spiritual dominoes.

Then he comes over, presses his hand on my forehead with the strength of a Power Ranger morphing sequence, and I’m just standing there :

“Uh… maybe my sins are a bit much. I’ve lied, yeah… but do we really need to baptize my head with 2 litres of oil??” 🛢️😂

Everyone else is falling dramatically.
I’m standing like a confused NPC waiting for the next dialogue option.

So yeah… maybe some people experience something I don’t.
Maybe it’s real.
Maybe it’s not.
But me? I’m still figuring it out.

And here’s something some of you really need to hear: ⚡

It’s arrogant to think you can question God’s will.
Do you even grasp His power? 😶‍🌫️

If possible, try to treat Him with respect — with reverence rooted in love if possible, not out of hate, and also by acknowledging His power.
If He is real — He is your Creator. 🌌

And the same way He gave you life?
He could erase you.
Quietly.
No trace.
No history.
That might be the most terrifying hell there is. 🕳️

Remember that.

So stop shouting at the sky like you’re owed something. 🌧️
Stop cursing Him every time something breaks.
That’s not bravery — that’s arrogance.

You want to understand suffering?
Start by not blaming upward when you have barely looked inward. 🪞

And if you are willing to look inward, then understand this;

Even when you were guided by others,
even if the voices around you felt certain, trusted, or close,
the keeping of your soul was never theirs. 🔐

For when you stand before God,
to say “thus was I led” will not suffice.
To say “I had no clarity in that hour” will not suffice.
To say “virtue was inconvenient, delayed or postponed” will not suffice.

Influence may shape the path, yet it does not absolve the traveller. ⚖️
And though the world is loud with instruction,
the reckoning is quiet —
and singular. 🌫️

🏛️ Faith, Power & Government

This truth does not apply only to faith.
It applies to power as well.

People do the same thing with governments. 🏛️
They respect them when the system feels stable,
lean on them when life is comfortable,
and surrender responsibility because it feels safer that way.

Until the tide turns.

Then suddenly it becomes:
“We were misled.”
“We didn’t know.”
“We trusted them.”

But understand this clearly —
governments do not carry your soul either.

Some lead with care.
Some try.
And some — not all, but enough to matter — stop seeing people as people.

They see figures.
Percentages.
Risk assessments.
Rows in spreadsheets. 📊

To them, suffering becomes a statistic.
Loss becomes a margin.
Lives become acceptable trade-offs written neatly in columns.

And when that happens, responsibility does not vanish just because authority existed.

You may be governed.
You may be influenced.
You may be guided.

But you are not absolved.

You may choose to respect laws because they align with your will —
because order matters,
because structure prevents chaos.

That is reasoned obedience.

But bending the knee out of blind surrender?

Those who govern are human.
Fallible. Limited. Capable of error. 🪞
Remember that.

Respect does not require worship.
Compliance does not require reverence.

Yet power is real. ⚖️
Ignoring that is naïve.

Governments hold power — over systems, over resources, over lives.
That power deserves acknowledgment, not illusion.

You respect authority the way you respect fire 🔥
not because it is moral,
but because it exists —
and because it can burn.

Fire can warm or destroy depending on how it is handled.
Power is no different.

So cooperate when order has value.
Follow laws when they make sense.
But never surrender your conscience.

Because when systems fail,
when leaders fade,
when rules drift away from humanity
and people become numbers —

saying “that’s what we were told” or “thus was I led” will not suffice.

Delegation of power is not delegation of conscience.

Influence may guide.
Authority may command.
Power may coerce.

But choice —
choice remains yours.

🧠 Trust, Dependence & Self-Reliance

Also most people tend to rely on others way too much.

They confuse trust with dependence —
but the two are not the same.

Trust is a choice.
Dependence is a different kind of surrender.

Trust says: I believe in you, possibly even believing in you a 100%, but I can still stand if you fall.
Dependence says: If you fail me, I collapse with you.

That is not trust.
That is fragility in a sense.

The healthiest position has always been self-reliance —
not arrogance, not isolation —
but capability.

The ability to stand alone if required.
To act without needing permission.
To continue even when support disappears.

If possible, that self-reliance should be backed by competence,
and tempered with hope —
hope that others will act well,
hope that trust will be honoured,
hope that cooperation remains mutual.

But hope is not a contract.

When trust is broken,
what remains should not be betrayal —
only disappointment if possible.

🪞 Betrayal, Fracture & the Origin of Evil

And this is where people misunderstand betrayal. 🪞

Betrayal doesn’t create monsters overnight.
It creates fractures. 🧩

When trust is absolute
and dependence is total,
a break doesn’t just disappoint —
it destabilizes. 🌪️

That is where a few villains originate.
Not all.
But a few.

Not from cruelty,
but from collapse. 🧱

From people who trusted without footing,
who depended without capacity,
who handed their centre to something external
and watched it fail. 🔐➡️💥

What grows next is pure resentment. 😶‍🌫️
Then bitterness. 🧊
Then a coldness mistaken for strength. 🪨

Evil, more often than not,
is disappointment that never learned how to stand upright again. 🕳️

That’s why dependence not chosen is dangerous. ⚠️
And why self-reliance matters. 🧠

Not to harden the heart —
but to make sure that when trust breaks,
nothing essential breaks with it. 🛡️

🧬 A Necessary Distinction

Now, clarity matters here, so read this carefully:

This applies to most, not all. ⛔
Some people are not shaped into this.
Some are simply born closer to the edge. 🧬

They live off impulse.
Primal desire.
Dominance.
Consumption. 🔥

No collapse required.
No betrayal needed.

Just appetite without restraint. 🐺

That is a different category —
what many would call morally evil by nature,
not by fracture. ⚖️

Both exist.
confusing the two is how people misunderstand
both villains and victims. 🪞

That’s the distinction.

And missing it is how people either excuse too much
or understand nothing at all. 🕯️

Because betrayal implies ownership.
And no one ever owned your footing but you.

Rely on yourself first.
Trust others second.
And if that trust fails,
you lose nothing essential —
only an expectation.

That is how you stay upright
in a world where people, systems, and promises
eventually wobble.

🧠 Logic, Emotion & Action

And when you act, do so with logic — not emotion.

Emotion reacts.
Logic evaluates.
Emotion seeks relief.
Logic seeks consequence.

Emotion makes noise.
Logic makes decisions. 🧠

This doesn’t mean suppressing feeling.
It means not letting feelings drive the wheel.

Because outrage may feel righteous in the moment,
but it rarely builds anything that lasts.

Act with reason.
Choose with clarity.
Let emotions inform — not command.

That is how responsibility becomes action,
not impulse disguised as virtue. But virtue disguised as empathy. ⚖️

🌫️ Fear, Survival & Living

And this is where fear quietly distorts everything.

Fear teaches people to obey without reflection.
To comply without conviction.
To trade agency for safety and call it wisdom.

When survival becomes the highest value,
people stop asking whether the life they are preserving is actually being lived.

They accept rules without questioning intent.
They follow orders without weighing conscience.
They endure rather than choose.

And this is where the mistake has always been:

Rather than fearing death,
fear not living.

🕯️ Fear, Death & What It Actually Means to Live

When I was seven years old, I learned something every human is eventually forced to learn.

Not death as a concept.
Not death as a word.
But death as a reality.

Someone close to someone close to me died.
Not “passed away” in a soft, comfortable sentence.
He was here — and then he wasn’t.

I asked why. ❓
And the adults answered calmly, like it solved everything:
“It was his time.” ⏳

That sentence stayed with me.
Because he was in his fifties.
Still working.
Still planning.
Still alive in every way that mattered five minutes earlier.

Some people said things like:
“Those who do good die earlier than those who do evil.” ⚖️
Is that true?
I don’t know. 🤷‍♂️
No one really does.

But I did know one thing.
He had something he wanted to do.

He wanted to walk his daughter down the aisle. 👰‍♀️
Nothing grand.
Nothing heroic.
Just that.

He never got to.

And that’s when it clicked for me — even at that age. 🧠

Death isn’t the scariest thing.
Not really.

What’s terrifying is reaching the end and realising you postponed your life.
That you waited. ⏸️
That you survived instead of lived. 😶‍🌫️
That the thing you kept calling “one day” never arrived. 📆

So when I say
“Don’t fear death — fear not living,”
I don’t mean recklessness. 🚫
I don’t mean arrogance. 🚫

I mean this:

Don’t trade your agency for comfort. 🛋️
Don’t delay what matters because it’s inconvenient. ⚠️
Don’t shrink yourself into safety and call it wisdom. 🔒

Because death comes whether you lived boldly or quietly. 🌒
But only one of those lets you leave without regret.

And regret…
regret is heavier than the grave. 🪦

🕊️ Closing

So before you look upward in accusation, remember this:
those who guided you may fade,
but the decision remains yours.

So live with humility.
Not fear based on punishment — but fear out of deep, unwavering respect. 🕊️

That’s the beginning of wisdom.
Maybe. ✨

Samuel