God Allow things to happen but He is not the source of cause.
Dictionary:
Cause: to serve as a cause or occasion of : MAKE; to effect by command, authority, or force.
Allow: To approve, to consent to expressly or formally.
Direct: To regulate the activities or course of, to carry out the organizing, energizing, and supervising of, to dominate and determine the course.
Scriptural Examples:
Genesis 48:11 Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too."
Judges 2:23 The LORD had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua.
Job 1:8-12 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil." "Does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied. "Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face." The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger."
Job 2:6 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life."
Hebrews 6:3 And God permitting, we will do so.
God's Sovereign:
Job 37:15 Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?
Proverbs 20:24 A man's steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand his own way?
Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases.
Jeremiah 10:23 [ Jeremiah's Prayer ] I know, O LORD, that a man's life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps.
Ezekiel 7:5 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Disaster! An unheard-of disaster is coming.
Revelation 16:9 They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.
God governs the world (Isa. 40:22-24), the nations (Isa. 40:15-17), and us (Proverbs 16:9).
The Bible talks about that God give and take away. He allow the good and the bad to happen. Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. There is a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.
Therefore, God do NOT cause however He does allow things to happen. God is in control.
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