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 Que personne, lorsqu'il est tenté, ne dise: C'est Dieu qui me tente. Car Dieu ne peut être tenté par le mal, et il ne tente lui-même personne.