why good things happen to bad people and why bad things happen to good people? Why it is mystery?

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Answer 1

While I really can't claim to know "the answer" to this, I do tend to believe that all things happen for a reason. I know that there have been times in the past when I was very disappointed about events that happened in my life, but when I looked back years later, I realized that they had been for the best. While I'm really not a very religious person, I do have to often wonder who makes these decisions because, for the most part, they do seem to be for the best in the long run. However, the death of my young daughter 3+ years ago still has me struggling to figure out WHY that was "for the best", but, I do hope that maybe some day I will figure that out, maybe there was a reason, or a lesson.

Answer 2

How sure are you that the so called good is good and the so called bad is bad? I have a STORY!

2 angles walk the earth. At midnight they ask a rich household for a small corner to sleep and a little food to eat. The 'pomp' household 'not very happily' gives them the worse of the leftovers and the basement room where things have been thrown away for years together to sleep. The angels happily accept. In the middle of the night, the younger of the 2 hears some sound and wakes up only to see the elder mending all the big and small holes on the badly maintained walls of the basement. The young angel was angry and questioned..."Why do you mend the walls of the 'not rich by heart' people. Don't do them such good!". The other angel said "THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM TO BE!"

Early next morning, the angels went their way. The second night they came to the household of a very poor family, who made a living by selling the milk from their only cow! The 'rich by heart family' happily welcomed them in. This time the angels get the best of what little the family had available to eat and gave them the only cot in the house when they slept on bare floors on the corner of their only room. Early next morning, the younger angel woke up to a heart breaking cry of the family.And was surprised to see their only cow, with which the household made a living, lying dead! The young angel was upset and questioned the elder..."When you could use your powers to do good to the bad people we met yesterday, why couldn't you have used the same powers to to have stopped the bad for these good people." The elder one as usual said...""THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM TO BE!"

This time the young angle was not so happy with the answer and put forth its thought. The elder explained..."In the rich household, the neglected walls of the ancient house has treasures in them which was so far un-discovered and now they will never. They don't deserve the treasure b'cas they did not have the heart to give out anything even when things were in abundance! In the case of the poor household... the head of the household was destined to die yesterday night, but their good deeds saved him and the Lord of Death returned with the life of their cow! THE END.

Well... that's it... and the point is, we really never know whether what happens in our life is good or bad!

There is always a hopeful or comforting prospect in the midst of difficulty too.

Every thing seems to us in the way we look and not to forget "THINGS MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY SEEM TO BE!"

Answer 3

When you say 'good things' you are probably thinking materialistically, because for bad people it is the materialistic philosophy which drives them and guides their actions. It is good people that identify bad people, but perhaps too late. In the end bad people are empty of friendship as the good awaken to what they are.

In some rationalist philosophies, the perceiver sees out side their time and place and know forces that shape the spirit. It is the empiricism for social history wherein those forces are found and through which their ideas for right and wrong are given.

'We lay down a limit: then we pass it: next we have a limit once more, and so on for ever. All this is but superficial alternation, which never leaves the region of the finite behind. To suppose that by stepping out and away into that infinity we release ourselves from the finite, is in truth but to seek the release which comes by flight. But the man who flees is not yet free: in fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees. If it be also said that the infinite is unattainable, the statement is true, but only because to the idea of infinity has been attached the circumstance of being simply and solely negative. With such empty and other-world stuff philosophy has nothing to do. What philosophy has to do with is always something concrete and in the highest sense present.'

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slbeing.htm#SL94n

Answer 4

I don't believe that good things happen more often to bad people than to good people, nor that bad things happen more often to good people than to bad people. I believe instead that we simply notice when the world seems unfair and ignore the times when the world apparently deals someone their just deserts (for good or ill).

It is random chance that determines who is burned to death in a car crash, but we pay particular attention if the victim is a loving parent and child and an upstanding member of the community. We don't care all that much if it were someone who raped and killed his own mother that died. The same random chance chooses who wins a lottery; we notice when the earlier creep is apparently rewarded while we think it's only right when those we admire win.

So, the mystery is only in our perception, not in reality.

Answer 5

It is not really a mystery. Struggle builds character,therefore people that have a lot of good things happen for them and never have to struggle just don't have a lot of character. The absolute greatest person I have ever known was an alcoholic waitress that worked for two dollars an hour. She was divorced when she was twenty and lived alone until her death at sixty two.

Answer 6

There is a book by a rabbi; I forget his name, but his book is When Bad Things happen to Good People and it has brought a lot of comfort to people who have been suffering with guilt over things that were not their fault.

We live in a universe that has been contaminated by sin and people do evil things to one another. It is not the perfect Garden of Eden it once was.

Our only hope is to surrender to Jesus and trust that God will eventually straighten everything out.

20 NOV 06, 0259 hrs, GMT.

Answer 7

The sad truth is that all sorts of things happen to everyone. What makes it a 'good'/'bad' event in a 'good'/'bad' person's life is subjective...
But generally, you dont notice when good things happen to good people, and bad things happen to bad people, because that is as it should be, and it seems fair, so you dont dwell on it, or ask why.

Answer 8

GOD IS GOOD.He tests the bad people by making good things happen so that they make see the His goodness and change.Bad things happen to good people is His test to them to face pain and suffering and still remain good till at end.

Answer 9

thats just the way the world goes..
everything happens for a reason..just some reasons are harder than others to figure out!

GL!

Answer 10

To build character, patience, understanding, and most of all, tolerance of others.