Why do you think bad things happen to good people, and do you believe its because its God's will?

Question

I'm talking about tragic losses and horrific crimes against decent, innocent people and children. For instance children like Polly Klass and Adam Walsh and Jessica Lundsford. Horrible, horific crimes were committed against these children. How can that be God's will? Why would God want or allow innocent children to be tortured and their families to suffer such horrific losses?

Answer 1

for mature christian, the ablity to give thanks & keep up a good & hopeful attitude towards God in times of tragic loss, sickness, injustices is the highest form of worship onto God. its bestow christian who have a very close friendship with GOd, a real test of friendship like Job in the bible. also currently billy graham is in good spirit praising God still in his advance stage of azheimers or parkinsons.

Answer 2

Because he knows that if he gets involved in every little matter, people would come to think that faith is based only on miracles and the actions of God. What happens to children, good or bad, is but a spec in the passage of time. By allowing these things to happen, God is teaching us that man cannot rule himself, but we have to learn this lesson the hard way. Even then, we think that we know better than God what is bets for us. Until a child is of the age of understanding, where they can make their own decision, based on accurate knowledge, what happens to them is reliant on the actions of the parents, just as it was in Sodom and Gomorrah. When this old system comes to an end and we have a new Paradise earth, ruled over from Heaven by Christ and the chosen overseers, than we will no longer see these things happen. Does that mean evil will not happen after Armageddon, no, for we will still have free will, but those who commit it will simply cease to exist, even in our minds.

Answer 3

It's not GOD doing these things, nor HIS will. It's people that are out of control, evil and have Satan embodied in their souls. he took them over and they live in a world of degradation, self hate, loathing, and total hellfire and damnation running in their veins. As far as the suffering, this is what I believe: Those who suffer the most are the ones who are loved the most. I truly believe this and always will. GOD will make it up to them on the day of judgment by reuniting them with those who they lost due to atrocities that are unforgivable. When someone says, GOD can and will forgive everything, it's true that he can but doesn't mean that he will... they tell themselves that so they can get away with sinning and convince themeselves that HE will do just that for them. How mistaken they are and will know when the time comes..........

Answer 4

Everything happens for a reason good and bad. God did not bring sin into the world Man did. And those children are in a place where there are no tears, God has wiped away all their tears, they have no memory of these things. The people who loved them are being shape by the what happened, by the way they choose to deal with it. Gods ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts higher than our thoughts.But people who don't see that reject God, that is exactly why bad things happen to separate believers form non believers.

Answer 5

The bible is given to us to tell us the good reside with the bad that does flourish because they are takers.

Abraham and his family owned nothing. God made him a Promise they would own Land.
2553 After Adam, 897 years after the flood, 1513 before christ, they finally had land for a garden Josh.5:6,10.14; and God could stop feeding them with manna from heaven. THAT IS SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT?

The one thing we know for sure every minute we are alive, is that we can die, our loved ones can die.
We have hope of the promise made by Jesus and God John 3:16; Heb.9:27 It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the judgement.
1Cor,15:22 As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Answer 6

God is the creator and observer.

Our lives are what we make them. The crimes were commited with the decisions on the person committing them. They were either insane or whatever.

Yes, it is Gods will. He created all beings including the bad ones. Christians want to blame it all on "satan" but it is only people. They just don't want to admit that god is everything including bad things or things that we see as bad things. All things witnessed and learned about are so we ourselves don't have to experience them. All of these bad things actually are for the purpose of saving others. To make us all aware and thankful these things did not happen to us.

Answer 7

its not Gods will. The bible teaches us that God desires a full life in Him, but must allow us as humans to make our own decisions and suffer the consequences. He offered his own son to that same fate, just to give us the right to heaven. So if he doesnt allow bad people to do bad things, then people dont really have free will. Dont worry, those poor children are in a much better place, and the bad guys, unless they fully repented... are not. Believe me, I have 2 children and I get sick just thinking of things that could happen, but I know I have a God who has a bigger plan in mind than I could ever understand.

hope that helps, good luck

Answer 8

Why do people blame God for all the bad things that happen but when it comes to the good things all of a sudden He doesn't exist or it's explained by evolution or some other theory?

You can't have it both ways. Either he is responsible for both the good AND the bad or He isn't responsible for any of it.

You have to understand the more basic things about God before you try and decipher the more complex things.

If we knew how or why He did things that way, WE would be God. But we aren't so we don't.

Answer 9

Why does God permit suffering?

Who really is to blame for it?

Humans are to blame for much of the suffering. They fight wars, commit crimes, pollute the environment, often carry on business in a manner motivated by greed rather than concern for their fellowman, and sometimes indulge in habits that they know can be harmful to their health. When they do these things, they hurt others and themselves. Should it be expected that humans would be immune to the consequences of what they do? Is it reasonable to blame God for these things that humans themselves do?

Satan and his demons also share responsibility. The Bible discloses that much suffering is because of the influence of wicked spirits. The suffering for which so many people blame God does not come from him at all.

How did suffering get started? Examination of the causes focuses attention on our first human parents, Adam and Eve. Jehovah God created them perfect and put them in paradise surroundings. If they had obeyed God, they would never have got sick or died. They could have enjoyed perfect human life forever. Suffering was not part of Jehovah’s purpose for mankind. But Jehovah clearly told Adam that continued enjoyment of what He had given them depended on obedience.

Obviously, they had to breathe, eat, drink, and sleep in order to continue living. And they had to keep God’s moral requirements in order to enjoy life fully and to be favored with such life forever. But they chose to go their own way, to set their own standards of good and bad, and thus they turned away from God, the Life-Giver. (Gen. 2:16, 17; 3:1-6) Sin led to death. It was as sinners that Adam and Eve produced children, and they could not pass on to their children what they no longer had. All were born in sin, with inclinations toward wrongdoing, weaknesses that could lead to illness, a sinful inheritance that would eventually result in death. Because everyone on earth today was born in sin, all of us experience suffering in various ways..

Ecclesiastes 9:11 says that “time and unforeseen occurrence” also have a bearing on what happens to us. We may get hurt, not because the Devil directly causes it or because any human does it, but because by chance we are in a place at the wrong moment.


Jesus performed many miracles to demonstrate that he was the Messiah. He even raised the dead. Those works attracted the crowds, but Jesus did not come to earth merely to do a social work. He came to bear witness to the truth. He knew that any material benefits he provided were temporary. Even the resurrected ones would die again. Only by bearing witness to the truth could he help some to gain everlasting life. (Luke 18:28-30) Today, some individuals try to imitate Jesus’ good works by opening hospitals or performing other services among the world’s poor. In some cases, they do this at great personal cost, and their sincerity is commendable; but any relief they supply is temporary at best. Only the Kingdom a Heavenly Government that Jesus talked about when He was on the Earth will bring permanent relief.

Answer 10

According to the majority, it IS God's will, and not only that, but it also happens for a reason. I find this attitude to be extremely distressing. I totally "get" your question, and I agree, and I feel your frustration with you. AND...I will be very curious to see other people's answers.

Answer 11

i agree it is for a better reason. see God knows how much we can bear and when he called his angels home he knew the ending from the beginning. that for his purpose something more than one thing good came out of it. just as the sacrifice of his son for all of us. his death and resurrection that one man on that cross getting beat and punctured and speared, and laughed at and mocked and slain all while he carried that cross to get nailed on, was for a l l of mankind whether they wanted to accept it or not. so with us we sacrifice so that it will be a blessing for others look at how many people benefited from the lost of those beautiful angels. i feel so sorry for their families, but look at what they the families were able to start from those lost their lost helped society gain goodness or prevention and awareness. i have suffered a lot and i look at it like this his purpose will be.