Why does God let bad things happen to good people?

Question

Interesting stuff in this month's issue of discover,

The practive of burying the dead may date back 350,000 years, as evidenced by a 45 foot deep pit in Atapuerca, Spain, filled with the fossils of 27 hominids of the species Homo heidelbegensis, apossible ancestor of Neaderthals, and modern humans.
page 80 Discover Magazine September 2006 issue

To be "fair"; on page 15 is the following:
Texas archaeologists claim they may have located the Remains of Noah's Ark in the Elburz Mountains of Iran. The location and size of the structure match biblical descriptions.

Is there anything more addicting then learning about the world around us?

Answer 1

No. We grow up with all these stories and until something makes it real to us history is merely stories. I didn't fully appreciate just how many men died at Fredricksburg VA during the first battle of the Civil War until I went there and saw it. So we quest to make these stories real and that stirs the innate curiosity we are all born with.

Answer 2

Learning is good.
One of the prerequisites for learning is to already have the knowledge that you DON'T know it all.
Another prerequisite for learning is to already have the knowledge that so called "experts" are almost certainly wrong on at least some issues.
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Consider the state of medical "science" not two hundred years ago, and compare it to the holistic and herbal practices of "witches" that were so ruthlessly surpressed and (mostly) lost during the middle ages.
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Consider that only a few hundred years ago (an eyeblink in the span of human history) most "experts" believed the world to be flat, and the earth to be the center of the universe.
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There are few people more incapable of learning than the sophomoric recipient of an "education" in our current system, steeped in sublime certainty that THEY KNOW and anyone who disagrees with them is (obviously) WRONG. Many of those "educated" persons are confident atheists, and hold only contempt for believers. Awash in their arrogance and certainty, it never occurs to them to wonder why some of the finest minds in the history of man DID believe.
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So - "Why does God let bad things happen...?" I don't know. Nobody else knows either, and the more they try to convince me that they DO know the more I suspect their motives and distrust them as a source of ANY information. Obviously one explanation would be that there simply is no God. To attempt to use "bad things happen" as PROOF that there is no God is childish in the extreme. If you build an image of "God" as a being that wouldn't let bad things happen you haven't proven that God doesn't exist - you've only proven that God doesn't exist as the being that YOU envision him to be.
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If their IS a God, I suspect that the answer involves free will, and the truism that without free will there would be "no game" and the world would be awfully boring...
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The remains of Noah's ark found? I'm skeptical. This isn't the first time the ark has been "discovered." Still, there's an awful lot in the bible that's been proven to be historically accurate and scoffers have been proven wrong by fresh evidence on many biblical history issues.
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Yes, learning is addictive, and the proper exercise of your ability to reason may be the most satisfying action known to man. (Well, okay - maybe SECOND most satisfying...) The more you learn, the easier you'll find it to distinguish between the very few who really hunger for truth and knowledge, and the vast majority who only seek confirmation of their present beliefs and their secure place in the herd. Seek out persons who hunger for truth - you'll find they contribute greatly to your knowledge, your happiness and your life.
Good luck to you!

Answer 3

That is the most addicting thing around...I studied anthropology in my breif stint in college and have wanted to be an archaeologist since I was eleven. Awesome stuff, believer or not :) Some bad things are tests of our faith in God, and others are the result of choices of ourselves and others. It's a beautiful, tragic, and mysterious web of life, and I believe that every person will recieve their right judgement by God in the end, and He is the only one who knows who is written in the book or not :)

Answer 4

Or maybe that was a dumping spot for one of the first serial killers. LOL
Good grief, in a thousand years, if mankind is still alive, they will re-find the titanic and think It's Noah's ark too.

Answer 5

You are as a result of your own action, if not this life then from another. It also helps mold you to be stronger and better, for it is not your achievements in this material world that counts, but your achievements in your spiritual one that matters for preparation for the ultimate, however you deem that to be.

Answer 6

For the same reason if you spend more than you make you will be in debt.

For the same reason we don't let our children stay home from school sick when they're not sick (they just didn't do their homework).

For the same reason our parents let us go out, even though they knew we were lying about where we were going and/or with whom.

Natural consequences.

Answer 7

are u askin two ques?
1. God does not allow bad things to happen to good ppl that's the
devils job.
2. yes to me learnin about the past is fascinating

Answer 8

It's for a purpose everything and everyone has a purpose. Like if I tripped fell on my face it was for a purpose but it seems unlikely.

Answer 9

Maybe we all all heading into a great big funnel to be pressed out into one form and don't realize it.

Knowledge is wonderful.
Creates wisdom.
Depends on how you use it.

Answer 10

god sees truth but waits.. this is what i studied in class 5th... donot get into deep human strength have not reached that zenith to understand god.... have a nice a day...