Is it true God won't give you more than you can bear?

I've just come across this article on ChristianToday by Patrick Regan. He wrote another pertaining to "is it ok to be angry with God". From the conclusion of the later, "it is ok to be angry [at] God", I can tell that Regan's very confused in faith. He's part of the category of those who is more about "me" rather than God.

So, predictably, he denies that 1 Corinthians 10:13 is a proof text for trusting and obeying God. In the two articles, all I can gather is that Regan's motto is "God loves you as you are". This view of love is classic heresy.

Regan concluded that if 1Cor 10:13 is true that God won't suffer us more than we can bear, then He must be a cruel God. He does seem to understand discipline and punishment from God in His love. We as sinners must recognize that we must seek after His righteousness, which is more of a revelation from the Bible than simply an emotional instinct that is often error-proneĀ (which I think people like Regan depend more on).

Regan appears to be ignorant of the state of a sinner before God. He might be an example of those becoming Christians without going through honest repentance before God. Their foundation is more like: "Oh God is real and great and He loves me? Cool, I'll be a Christian! - Yea, I admit I'm a sinner, nobody is perfect, God's love will forgive me anyway!" What's missing? Repentance.

Repentance involves not just guilt, but shame as well. Today, there may be a new wave of emergent movement calling a repentance of only guilt, devoid of any embarrassment or shameful feeling. However, without shame, how can one repent humbly? This is why many compensations for mistakes are done pathetically merely in the form of statements like "we are sorry...", "I apologize for...". Nothing more. No wonder ChristianToday.Com often titles its articles in such form "the Pope condemns this", "the Church condemns that". As if there needs confirmation that rape is wrong or something. A cheapened pursuit of holiness.

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