if god is ALL good why does he let bad things happen?

Answer 1

the only explanations are either God isn't all powerful or simply doesn't care

Answer 2

It is one of the great mysteries of God but no matter what God always makes a better good out of suffering. Read this response to almost the same question you asked. Carol asked a question on suffering. Here is her answer via ewtn.com

Dear Carol,
I think you are having a hard time with a very traditional teaching of the Church, namely, that because of original sin there will be suffering in life on the part of the good and the bad. Everybody suffers. Christ suffered because he was good. If we are to be good like Christ, we will suffer. The fact that Christ suffered does not wipe out the necessity that we suffer. The fact that Christ suffered enables us to suffer in the right way. The evil people also suffer--but in the wrong way so that it hardens their hearts. What you are up against is the problem of evil. Perhaps you are one of those people who were brought up in the last thirty or forty years with the notion of a loving Christ who will make us happy if we are good. But that is not a very balanced view. In fact, the better you are, the more you will suffer just like Christ, the best of all, suffered most terribly. This is hard. In heaven, however, all suffering will be done away. But we aren't in heaven yet.

Dr.Geraghty

Answer 3

it is a question of perspective. that which you consider are "bad things", is merely your opinion, i.e. if a child gets a time out for jumping on the furniture, the child thinks the time out is a "bad thing" when in reality it is constructive to the childs behavior. God created nature to exist and thrive naturally, God simply allows the natural coarse to occur. all we have to worry about is our decisions while navigating said natural coarse. because we do have to live with the reprocussions of them.

Answer 4

No no no no no! God has given man a choice - good or evil. It's man that chooses bad. In the garden of Eden, they chose to disobey God. Since then the whole human race has had a choice. If God dictated what man should do that negates free will. He doesn't want that, He wants us to to good and love Him because we want it that way. He is outside time so He knows how it will end. Believe and be saved.

Answer 5

It is not God's will that his children be hurt, but sometimes bad things do happen. However, if you trust in him through the bad times, it will make you stronger, wiser and appreciate the good things more.

Answer 6

the pathology that underlies the hostilities towards religious people by vicious people who want to kill the god who laid down principles to serve as a guide for mankind,they want god and his moral code wiped out,man unencumbered by conscience,would reign in his place.it is the oldest of temptations. where was god you ask,how could a loving creator have allowed all this to happen,where was god when the Khmer rouge slaughtered 1.7 million cambodians,where was god during the Armenian holocaust, where was god in Rwanda,where is god in Darfur,where is god when even one innocent victim is being murdered or raped or abused. the answer is that a world in which god intervened to prevent cruelty and violence would be a world without freedom.
and life without freedom would be meaningless,god gives everyone the power to choose between good and evil, some choose to help their neighbour and some choose to hurt their neighbour.
there are people who will murder rape and abuse their neighbour and there are people who would risk their lives for a total stranger.
the god who laid down the principles was not addressing himself to Angels or robets who could do no wrong even if they wanted to,he was speaking to real people with real choices to make and real consequences that follow from their choices.
god would have to turn free moral agents into puppets to stop them from commiting their terrible crimes.
it is not god who fails when human beings do barbaric things to other human beings, all these things do not happen when god is silent it is what happens when men and woman refuse to listen.

Answer 7

It's because he has given us free will and not even he will violate that. It is our bad choices that causes bad things to happen. If he came to the rescue evertime something bad was gonna happen we would basically be like robots. He would have to stop every evil thing like murder and rape, but he would also have to stop every bad thought, every lie, every curse word, and so on. And as for natural disasters I think that all of our wars and our mistreating of the environment causes this.

He is definitely good though. You should read http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research21.html.

Answer 8

If this Bad is caused by bad people He lets them have free will to be bad and then sits in judgment of them in the end. After all, they could have done good but chose not to. If done by nature it is to shake the faith of those who believe, turning them into unbelieveing blasphemers who will go to Hell. So the only one who wins is the one who has faith and does good. Apparently this simplicity escapes the very highest and mightiest who never learn this until they find themselves in Hell.

Answer 9

Because this life is a test to see whether we still believe in him after all of that, and to see if we help those who need help. Humans can help others, but they don't necessarily do it. I bet if the world put their minds together they can end world hunger, but they don't. This life is a test to see if we do these stuff. This world is not perfect, and if it was than what would be our point of existence on Earth if we were to go to heaven anyway?

Answer 10

GOD IS ALL GOOD - HE GAVE US THE WORLD THE BAD COMES FROM THE THINGS THAT THE PEOPLE HERE ON EARTH CREATE - SOMETIMES WE ARE PUT IN THE DARK SO THAT WE CAN SEE THE LIGHT WE ARE ALL A PART OF A BIGGER PICTURE BUT IT'S NOT OUR PICTURE OR PLAN

Answer 11

God is the intelligent or perceptive and eternal energy at the source of the Cosmos; the Cosmos is everyone and everything that ever existed. The Cosmos is beyond human ability to comprehend, but it makes itself known through the design of natural laws which govern the universe.

This is the only true and real God, of which we are each an integral part. It is nonjudgmental and nonintervening, but it is an eternally progressive energy, and we evolve and gain wisdom through interaction with its natural laws.

The biblical 'God' Jehovah is a very flawed effigy created by ignorant and superstitious men who gave their god all the faults of mankind (including limited intelligence, rage and cruelty) and few of the virtues. Their god is presented as illogical, schizophrenic, vindictive... and It is an insult to the true 'God' to say 'God' is the biblical deity, imo. The real 'God' is more magnificent and more perfect than we can imagine.

'God' requires no adoration, sacrifice or even acknowledgement. That's because everyone and everything is a portion of 'God'.

Humans have free will - and every person alive made the choice to become incarnate and to develop and grow as a separate human being - without divine intervention. What most humans don't realize is that we are all part of the same source, the same cosmos, which is God. Not the biblical 'God' which is a patchwork of superstitions and senseless dogma, but the true God "who" is nonjudgmental and noninterfering. When we reach a point in our experiences when we can recognize God in everything and everyone (including ourselves), when we can understand the profound responsibility we collectively have for one another and the world in which we live, then we can begin to change the world. We're a long way from that, however, and as long as we "blame" 'God' or 'Satan' for the things for which we ourselves are responsible, we continue to live in dark confusion.