It is said that everything happens to you for a reason.
Someone once told me that even if you were raped or assaulted, God can take whatever happened to you and use it and turn it into something good in the future or something.
What do you think? It's confusing
2006-10-22 06:05:56 · 13 answers · asked by Rachel M 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'd say definitely not. Take a raped girl in some Muslim country for example. Many of those people think that raped women are defiled and dirty, and have to be killed to preserve the honor of the family. So first you get raped, and then your father/brother/uncle murders you. And since you didn't believe in the right god (according to many people here), you then go to hell. Does that sound like a reason for you? Doesn't make much sense to me.
2006-10-22 06:09:29 · answer #1 · answered by eri 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's right. Everything has two sides and you can benefit even from the worst thing that could ever happen to you. I'll tell you one perfect example of this. Once upon a time there lived a king and he had a very close friend, a philocopher who always said that everything that happens is good. One day the king was hunting and accidentally he cut of his finger. He was very concerned about that and decided to talk with his friend about that. He told him that he was wrong when he sad that everything that happens is good. But the friend answered that it was good that the king lost his finger but he didn't know yet why. The king got very angry and put his friend into the "jail". A week after that the king was hunting again and again trouble found him. He was cought by savages who took him and decided to kill him, give his life to their god. But their chief found that he had one finger missing so he was defected and they couldn't bare to give him to their god so they let him go. The king was very glad to find himself home again and he decided to let his friend out. When he met his friend he tald him that losing finger was really good thing for him but he couldn't understand why was this situation good for his friend, because he spent a week in the jail. The friend told him that if he wasn't put into the jail he would have been with him when the savages cought him, and those savages, after finding out that the king was defected, would defenetly have killed him in the name of their god.
2006-10-22 06:30:51 · answer #2 · answered by chuncho_ts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A) The reason may be somebody else's bright idea, not yours or God's. And it may have an evil or sick purpose.
B) But giving the event, experience etc. over to God and allowing Him to direct the results WILL allow Him to turn that evil into a source of good for you. For example: in 1987 I was the victim of a particularly vicious rapist. He choked me unconscious, nearly strangling me to death in fact, beat me severely about the face, causing permanent nerve damage and then raped me and left me for dead. Before passing out, I thought (because I couldn't holler) "God, do with me as You will". I have no memory of the beating or the rape. No trauma other than the physical and that has long since healed. Here I am, nearly 20 years later, still going strong, still teaching, still learning, still enjoying life. My rapist? He's been dead for 17 years. Of "lead poisoning".
2006-10-22 06:18:23 · answer #3 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that in this situation "God" is sometimes used as a crutch. People use a belief that someone else will make things better for them so that they don't have to. For some people it eases the pain. But for those of us that are strong enough and not mentally incarcerated, we realize that our lives are our responsibility. And as such, only we can make the determination to turn a bad situation into something that is empowering.
Success is the sweetest revenge. Focus on improving your own life and don't dwell on the past. Strength is born of pain.
2006-10-22 06:21:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right it is confusing. It is a tactic used by religion to say if things are good god did it. If things go bad god did not do it. If any one person or thing cares they should never ever allow for a person to be attacked or raped. To say something good comes out of that is to say a rape is oke. I think a rape is never oke.
Be good be nice
2006-10-22 06:10:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's just rationalization. Most things that we know of have causes. This gets more fuzzy and questionable at the quantum level. However, this is different than saying that everything happens for a reason. That statement implies that some being somewhere plans everything. That's just not true.
However, the idea that we're just on damp speck of dust hurtling through space really upsets people. So, they like to believe there is some kind of ultimate plan to everything.
2006-10-22 06:07:32 · answer #6 · answered by nondescript 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I can't hang with everything happens for a reason. There are
8,000,000,000 pople in the world, and they all have free will.
Somebody has got to be stepping on somebody's toes!
2006-10-22 06:09:31 · answer #7 · answered by Medicine Eddie 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It can be used to help someone else later. Rape can sometimes bring another life into the world. All life is a beautiful thing. Count it all joy.
2006-10-22 06:08:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
We all have have lessons to learn in life. These lessons help us in our journey to become higher spiritual beings so that we can move on to other lessons we must overcome.
Check out books on angels, psychic readings, healers.
2006-10-22 06:12:35 · answer #9 · answered by Claire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it can. you can help less woman be raped in the world and maybe track down some rapists and put them in jail.
2006-10-22 06:43:56 · answer #10 · answered by lintlicker 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋