If god is real why do bad things happen to good people?

Question

Please note I said a good person, not a good person with sins.

For example how about a 3 year old kid who has leukemia what did they do to deserve that?

Answer 1

There is no God

Answer 2

Bad things happen to good people, much like good things happen to bad people.

Mat 5:45 ...He makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I expect that if good people never experienced any misfortune then everyone would be sinless, but not from faith, but rather selfishness.

Heb 12:5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
Heb 12:6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives."

Many of us require trials to make us stronger. They may be because of a sin that we need to get over, or they may simply be to give us strength through enduring hardship.

Finally, it may not be about you. The universe is an exceedingly complicated place. Every action affects everyone else in some small way or another. Maybe what was bad for you was good for someone else. Only God knows enough to say. In the words of the popular song "He never said it would be easy, only that I'd never walk alone".

Answer 3

You've got to imagine life as a three act play or a trilogy.
Act one - We live with God for a time, but eventually we have learned all that we can learn in His presence and it is time to go get some real live experience. This is kind of like parents and their children. The children live with the parents for a certain number of years, growing and learning, but there comes a point where the kids need to move out and go to college or what not so they can get some real world experience and not have to rely on Mom and Dad so much.

Act two - Born into the school of hard knocks. We are here to be tested to see if we will have faith in God and follow his words that come to us thru his prophets. This is a real test because we can't remember him and bad things happen in this life that really test our faith. Now, if act two was the entire story then God would seem to be pretty cruel to allow so much suffering. But He has a bigger picture view. Plus, he has given us our agency which is the freedom to choose whether we will follow him or not. Some choose to use their agency to cause harm to other people. God could step in and stop that from happening, but then He wouldn't be able to justly judge the offender. Plus God knows that Act three is coming up when everything will be sorted out.

Act three - Everyone is judged for how they used their agency in act two based upon the knowledge they had. Bascially you can think of this as the time when justice and mercy are meted out and all the wrongs are righted.

Answer 4

Bad things happen so we can learn and experience BAD...I mean, consider if we were in a perfect world, all the time.
Nothing bad ever happened, no pain, hunger, sickness or death...???
I don't know, but we may, as many allready do, take everything for grantid...Or worse yet, we just may not even begin to know what we have in a perfect world if we never knew what imperfection was.
Then too there is the fact that we are not ROBOTS.
God, our CREATOR, gives us the choice, every single day, to do good, or to do bad.
Imagine if God was like a DICTATOR, and He dictated our lives, and said, WELL IF YOU DO WRONG I WILL JUST HAVE TO SMITE YOU!!!
So then we would be born, maybe bad things happened in our childhood, then we went on to do worse things, then God said, well I warned you...poof your dead!
He gives us free will.
He will never turn HIS back on us.
But He will allow us to turn our backs on HIM.
Though He also allows us to COME BACK TO HIM.
God is SOVEREIGN, HE is the Creator, He is the one who CREATED all things HE IS THE RULE MAKER, HE HAS ALL CONTROL...We are His CREATION.
Imagine if you make a clay pot, and you just really hate it...Well, its yours, so you MAY DESTROY it...
And even start over...but the rules are yours over that pot you made...You are the creator, you are therefore SOVEREIGN over it.
Bad things happen not because GOD makes them happen, but because He allows HIS creation, all the people He made, FREE WILL.
God sees us as perfect.
He knows what we will do before we do it.
I believe He knew our whole life before we were ever born, or even, long before we were ever created.
He sees us as, What we will become...right now we are each growing, learning and evolving into the Perfect Spiritual Being, He sees us as...even as we are in this physical body, and world.
I hope I helped, and I hope I was not babbling too much.
I believe in things which I can not see, and yet I believe I see Him everyday anyway.
The Miracle of birth, the miracle of life, the miracle of re-birth in the spring, new leaves, new life, even after winters "death", things come back to life...The Tulips, and Lillies, and Daffodills all push up there little green shoots, sometimes even through the snow.
Then in another few weeks they are all in bloom again.
What bad thing happened to you?
Did you lose a loved one?
Did someone hurt you?
or are you just speaking figuratively?
Feel free to e-mail me if you like.
I will try and help, if I can.
DJH
Did anything bad ever happen to you?
Did you ever lose a loved one?
Then a friend of yours also lost a loved one?
So then suppose your friend needed someone to talk to, they would not be able to find Condolence (sympathy) from someone who never lost a loved one before, but they would from someone who had.
I am sorry for children born with disabilities, and yet, why should I be?
Don't you think that a PERFECT CREATOR, an ALL KNOWING SUPREME BEING, may have a BIGGER PICTURE then what we can see?
Don't you suppose that there may be a reason a three year old gets LUKEMIA...
Maybe that childs parents fought all the time, or perhaps they neglected the child, or you know...whatever the case may be that WE AS HUMANS CAN NOT EVEN FATHOM, or SEE from our limited perspective...Maybe that child getting LUKEMIA happened so the PARENTS would resolve their differences, or be better more loving parents( just an idea)...
After all we only use about ONE TENTH of our brain(s), if we are lucky.
He has something in store for each of us.
He has a greater plan than we can even fathom, or imagine with our "limited capacity".
BELIEVE IT!!!

Answer 5

Well, either Satan is blamed (which doesn't stand up to reason...either God created him and would draw the line or Satan is as powerful as God to make bad things happen)
Or, there's free will. But, if God is omniscient, then free will and the existence of Hell makes God not seem so nice or the omniscient bit makes free will impossible (to some).


to DnccrzdCrlygrl:
well, I guess you could say death eventually ended torture for Jews through Hitler...along those lines, there are countless examples but I'm too lazy to go through all of history and list them

Answer 6

That has nothing to do with, if God is real .That's like asking why do good things happen to bad people , God brings rain upon the rightues as well as the unrightues

Answer 7

Do you really want to hear this again? Bad things make good people think about something other than themselves. It makes them seek an answer. God is God. An enigma, that does what God wants to do. Someone, somewhere , somehow, glorifies God because of it.

Answer 8

There is a reason for things to happen to good people.I know,been there. Sometimes we are tested to,I love god!I would suggest to you that you get your bible out and start reading it.Without him,I would be at a stand still. You will be amazed!

Answer 9

It says in the Bible that all things happen for a reason. And though it may not always make since, God has a plan for everything that happens in life!!
Watch and see.. He has never let me down! Just must have faith!

Answer 10

No place in the Bible does it say that life is fair. As a matter of fact, most of the stories are about dysfunctional families and the problems they have.

If you're looking for a rose garden, try another book.
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Answer 11

All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There are no good people in this world, there are only the saved and the unsaved. No one can say that he has not sinned and is need of repentance. If God were to show you your sin you would be horrified. He prefers the loving touch, however, and appoints men like men to tell you about it in a gentle way.