2006-09-25 06:34:09 · 33 answers · asked by haynes1515 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it's called fate, sometimes, bad things have to happen to us in order for us to become humble, it's planned out before were ever concieved, and we can fight it, or we can learn to accept it. All I know is everything happens for a reason, sometimes bad things happen so that we can change them later on in life. There is a God, don't ever question that.
2006-09-25 06:46:55 · answer #1 · answered by marquita 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is not a simple answer but I think I can give you an idea. As humans we are finite in every way. Everything that we do can be quantified with numbers or amounts. Therefore we tend to think in terms of finite amounts. As a people we have free will whether or not we even want to believe in God or not much less if we condone how he runs things. The problem of pain/suffering is that it is logically impossible for us to have a world with free will where pain does not exist. This is because we were the ones who originally caused the evil to occur. Some would say well why doesn't God just prevent us from doing those things? That would defeat the idea of free will. Remember in the garden of Eden when Adam and Eve first erred. This opened the door to the devil and we fell away from God further and further. I realize this isn't a great explanation so if you want to understand it better, read The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis. It is a very high level read however.
2006-09-25 06:42:20 · answer #2 · answered by mojo2093@sbcglobal.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One must understand the question before one can understand the answer.
God sent people here to earth to 1) get a body and 2) learn and grow. How can people best learn and grow? By being subjected to an imperfect situation where they will be faced with various trials and challenges, many of them imposed by their fellow human beings. Does this mean that God is evil? Does it mean that he doesn't exist because he allows people to face trials and challenges? Of course not.
An analogy to this is a weight lifter. A weight lifter gains the most muscle and sees the most growth when he stretches himself and when he tries to lift a little more weight than he did last time. If he never stretches himself, he won't gain muscle very fast. It is the same way in our lives. If we are never given any challenges or trials or opportunities to "stretch ourselves" then we could never grow very much.
2006-09-25 06:42:58 · answer #3 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason bad things happen is because of God's enemy, Satan the devil. He challenged God's right to rule over the earth and said that humans do not need God and could rule themselves independently without God's help. God is answering Satans challenge by allowing man to try to live without his interference. Satan also said that humans would discontinue serving God if he( Satan and his demons)) were allowed to cause them pain and suffering. There have been and still are many who are proving Satan to be a liar, who love and serve God loyally, despite whatever persecution Satan brings upon them.
What has been the result of man ruling man without God intervening? Suffering and injustice, wars, crime and hatred.
God has promised to soon rid the earth of all those things and to destroy Satan and all who follow him.
We need a righteous ruler who will be just and merciful. Human rulers can do nothing for us. (Psalm 146:3)
Look what Psalms 37:9-11 promises us--" For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace."
Soon the meek who inherit this earth will be under one government that will last forever. (See Daniel 2:44) No more will we have to put up with imperfect human rulers who can never bring an end to injustice, crime, terrorism or death itself. God's government will do all that and more.
2006-09-25 06:45:51 · answer #4 · answered by Micah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the book "When Bad Things Happen To Good People" by Harold Kushner
2006-09-25 06:38:45 · answer #5 · answered by worldhq101 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesnt enable this stuff happen. human beings do. We were given freedom of selection or "loose will" the outcome of those alternatives will be unfavourable reckoning on the challenge and for this reason the undesirable issues are occurring. from time to time Divine Intervention steps in and does something that would look undesirable in spite of the indisputable fact that it really is to get a man or woman to both do something or perhaps comprehend something that they dont see of their own existence. My 1st husband changed into an abuser yet i changed into afraid to leave him for worry of being on my own. If I didnt go away him i'd were useless yet I didnt see that all I said changed into worry of being on my own. So i finished up entering into worry and having to serve time in penal complicated. at the same time as i changed into in penal complicated he left me for sturdy. It changed into God's way of declaring in case you wont go away then i will get rid of you from it. Does that make experience? Im a sturdy human being that had something undesirable happen yet there turned right into a sturdy clarification for the undesirable element to happen and that i'm extra ideal for it occurring. God is common with what he's doing...dont attempt to 2d wager Him. You cant.
2016-11-23 20:53:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of Sin and free will. God gives us free will. We do not know thr reasons WHY for many things.....only that God is HOLY and that His Wrath is poured out upon evil. There are many reasons we will only understand once we see stand before Him on Judgement day. God bless you.
2006-09-25 06:38:27 · answer #7 · answered by davidchristinelove 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a God
The question is realy trying to put the blame for evil on God
We need to learn a word, and that word is "responsibility"
2006-09-25 06:46:17 · answer #8 · answered by WhatIf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad things happen to good people because we keep thinking that we know better than God does. It's because we rejected God's way and decided to do things our way.
2006-09-25 06:57:04 · answer #9 · answered by theology_chick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The World is not a perfect place those "Evil people" are making that choice God gives you free will......
2006-09-25 06:43:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋