Why do bad things happen to good people.?

Question

Why does god let bad things happen to good people! Why are woman who did nothing raped everyday? Why are innocent people murdered?

Answer 1

The only way I can answer this for you is this way



God allows troubling times to come upon us (nothing more then we can handle) yet we feel it is to much. To teach us. What is he teaching us. Well it depends each case is different.



You WILL NOT see the reason while it is going on. However, once the storm/problem is over God will show you and then you will understand. It maybe a few days, weeks even years before he shows you the reason.



See I never understood why my past was so hard and so bad. I had so much happed to the point if I told you all of it I would rewrite my book. Yes I wrote one already based on my true story, thats besides the point. The point is GOD allowed me to go through those bad times because he was teaching me how to love, honor, respect, behaver,be nice, grow up, bresponsibly, respectable, to be honest, who to trust and not to trust. ect. You get the picture.



Now with what I have learned I am able to turn around and help others who God sends my way who are on the same road I was once on to help them through.



So the over all point it he is teaching us and its like school he is testing us and if we fail we have to take the test over again so we better learn or we will be having this problem/problems for a long time until we pass the test/tests.



God does not cause rape and murder. That is evil in the world. When those things happen we are to learn how to avoid them. Rape and murder are acts of the devil working through man kind.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Let's look at this from a different angle. Why do good things happen to bad people?



Because good and bad on some levels are subjective and relative. And things in life are cyclic. We all experience good and bad things in our lives.



From your question, would it be okay if women who did "something" (as opposed to nothing) got raped? Rape is unacceptable in today's society, no matter what. What about those innocent people who are murdered? There are many, many people involved in drugs, crime and wars who are far from innocent who also get murdered.



Perhaps it might be a good exercise in thinking to simply allow that humans are capable of both good and bad. And that there are varying degrees of good and bad.



I do find it interesting that some answerer's have tried to explain it using religion and God. I say, each to his own. When someone comes up with a DEFINITIVE answer (not speculative) then history will take an interesting turn.

Answer 3

Bad things happen to everyone, not just good people. Just like good things happen for everyone.



It's not about some deity "letting" good or bad things happen to particular people, it's about life, and in order for life to go on the way it does there has to be balance. Positive and negative things happen all the time every day to every kind of person you can imagine, it's nothing personal just an effect of the cosmic balancing act.



You gotta take the good with the bad, it's all equal in the end.



Yin and Yang, good and bad, darkness and light.. how can we know one without the other?

Answer 4

One of the most pervasive illusions is that the well-lived life is characterized by ease and pleasure. Therefore, anything that intrudes on our ease and pleasure (such as illness, the birth of a handicapped child, financial loss, or the death of a loved one) is by definition "bad." For many, the very question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" presupposes the definition of "bad" as equivalent to "painful."

In the Jewish concept, the well-lived life is characterized by inner growth that creates a person of depth and compassion. Acquiring these qualities usually requires passing through challenges and hardships.

This is not to say that suffering necessarily produces spiritual greatness. An indispensable component of the formula is how we respond to the hardships that are put in our path. Here are the possibilities:



HARDSHIP + AVOIDANCE = SPIRITUAL MEDIOCRITY

HARDSHIP + REJECTION = BITTERNESS

HARDSHIP + ACCEPTANCE = SPIRITUAL GROWTH

USING HARDSHIP AS A SPRINGBOARD = SPIRITUAL GREATNESS

Answer 5

How solid or undesirable you're purely effects how others in society view you, and while you're undesirable adequate you will possibly get some judgment against you. yet on the finished it makes no distinction while you're solid or undesirable as a techniques because of the fact the UNIVERSE is in touch. I positioned that for the time of all caps so human beings might word that i'm not suggesting which you be undesirable. maximum folk attempt to be solid on account that's what makes it consumer-friendly for us to have a society and get alongside with others. yet because of the fact the universe is the source of robust and undesirable issues that take place to human beings, it ought to care much less whether you're socially nicely behaved or not.

Answer 6

Ecclesiastes 9:2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Answer 7

hit the nail on the head if god loves you why would he put people through this doesnt sound like the actions of a loving father to me. more like the actions of an uncaring god or one who enjoys the crudities the world inflicts on us.

Answer 8

or why to good things happen to bad people? The rain falls on the good and the wicked.

Answer 9

bad things forge the good in us; the bad balances the good and gives the good something to look towards ;without bad: good would be everything and everyone and lose its meaning.

Answer 10

I could only offer an answer to your question if life came with a guarantee.



Since it doesn't, it is what it is.

Answer 11

Because the true "god" is impartial.

Answer 12

Free will and evil choices of people with their free will.



God will make it right when we are in heaven, no more free will then.

Answer 13

do you even know how to judge like god if thier good or bad?then no you fo0ol..i believe people should die because what if god give us eternal life..people would used it in many different reason

Answer 14

Life happens.







God does not get involved here in any way.

Answer 15

Question: "Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?"



Answer: Why do bad things happen to good people? That is one of the difficult questions in all of theology. God is eternal, infinite, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, etc. Why should we human beings (not eternal, infinite, omniscient, omnipresent, or omnipotent) expect to be able to fully understand God’s ways? The book of Job deals with this issue. God had allowed Satan to do everything he wanted to Job except kill him. What was Job’s reaction? “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him” (Job 13:15). “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised” (Job 1:21). Job didn’t understand why God had allowed the things He did, but he knew that God was good and therefore continued to trust in Him. Ultimately, that should be our reaction as well. God is good, just, loving, and merciful. Often things happen to us that we simply cannot understand. However, instead of doubting God's goodness, our reaction should be to trust Him. "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight" (Proverbs 3:5-6).



Perhaps a better question is, "Why do good things happen to bad people?" God is holy (Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8). Human beings are sinful (Romans 3:23; 6:23). Do you want to know how God views humanity? “As it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know. There is no fear of God before their eyes” (Romans 3:10-18). Every human being on this planet deserves to be thrown into hell at this very moment. Every second we spend alive is only by the grace of God. Even the most terrible misery we could experience on this planet is merciful compared to what we deserve, eternal hell in the lake of fire.



“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Despite the evil, wicked, sinful nature of the people of this world, God still loved us. He loved us enough to die to take the penalty for our sins (Romans 6:23). All we have to do is believe in Jesus Christ (John 3:16; Romans 10:9) in order to be forgiven and promised a home in heaven (Romans 8:1). What we deserve = hell. What we are given = eternal life in heaven if we would just believe. It has been said, this world is the only hell believers will ever experience, and this world is the only heaven unbelievers will ever experience. The next time we ask the question, “Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?”, maybe we should be asking, “Why does God allow good things to happen to bad people?”



Recommended Resource: Disappointment with God by Philip Yancey.

Answer 16

Because god doesnt exist?

Answer 17

Because life isn't fair, it never has been, and it never will be.