A way that we can shift blame from ourselves to God, is saying,
Joseph A. Pipawell, God in his providence has brought me into these circumstances and I am just not strong enough to resist. So ultimately, who is at fault? It is God.Think of Joseph. Joseph often haunts me. A seventeen-year-old teenager, divorced from all parental and familiar restraint, in a pagan household, has a mature woman who is trying to seduce him. Now, who put him there? He confesses at least twice in his maturity: he was there by God's providence. But he could not take resort in committing the sin by simply saying,well, this is my situation.[We want to] rationalize at that point. The man or woman whose spouse is not responsive rationalize their [sexual] activity by saying,well, this is where I am. We all have these desires, [and mine] are not being met in God's providence in the way they should be met,and so we sin and we blame God.1
13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.