If God does exsist why do so many bad things happen?

Question

Why does he let them happen?

Answer 1

2 get us 2 put our faith in him

learn we cnt do things on our own and tht we need him above everything else

Answer 2

Bad things like what? People who do evil things, like 9/11 and the Holocaust for example? Or the tsunami of '04?
If you're referring to the first:
1. We all have free will. This means that where good is absent, evil will thrive. The events of September 11th, and the Holocaust, prove that.
2. Many were spared in both events.

As for the second:
Most of the time, the conditions of our planet are in perfect order to support life. But, every so often, this order is balanced out by chaos. Natural disasters are an example of chaos.
And yet, even within natural disasters, some factors actually help to support life. For example, hurricanes and tornadoes actually till the earth so that new life can grow out of it. Earthquakes do the same. Volcanic eruptions can cause new land formations to arise, and plant-life grows out of the ashes and the cooled lava.

Also, consider the fact that we don't see the whole fabric of life and death, and we won't until we die. That's when we'll gain all understanding.... or life will simply end, and we'll simply know nothing.
But if there is a God, and I believe there is, there is perfect balance in the universe. Every person must die, to make room for those yet to come.

Answer 3

I used to wonder the same thing and the best explanation or reasoning I ever heard was that life is like looking on the underside of a weaving or tapestry - all the threads are jumbled and tangled and make no sense whatsoever, the colors are all mixed up and you can't figure out why someone would have those threads there or have them be tangled like that, but when you flip the cloth over the threads end up making a picture and then everything makes sense. My belief is that I may not understand why bad things happen to me or in the world - but eventually I can or will see and understand what God was trying to accomplish and the greater reason for everything (when the cloth finally gets flipped over).

Answer 4

wow, this is a hard question to answer but...God does exist, bad things happen because perhaps it is punishment for those that are making him sick with their perverseness. Personally i belive ( and no offense to those that lost loved ones ) that when Hurricane Katrina hit, they were about to have festival celebrating gay rights is that correct? well, that terrible catastrophe happened because God is pointing out that...hey we're on the wrong track and he will give a second chance to turn to him, but that what we were doing was an abomination to his rules and his idea of marriage. God cares about everyone, he truly does, he just needs to show them that they have turned so far from him that it is becoming deadly, (eternal damnation in other words ) but it's a hard question to answer and not everyone knows. in fact nobody knows thereal reason, they just simply try to answer it in the best ways that they can

Answer 5

The life of God isn't in accordance to even if undesirable issues ensue interior the international. And, the reason behind undesirable issues occurring interior the international does no longer matter on even if God exists. undesirable issues ensue interior the international because the human race has no longer, isn't, and by no skill will be, able to ruling itself interior the fairest and perfect way. Our love is only too restricted: we do no longer have sufficient love or compassion to bypass round to anybody interior the international. So, we are the reason behind undesirable issues occurring interior the international. God has given us freewill, to make your thoughts up on between doing good and doing undesirable. Even God's angels have that decision. we may want some thing supernatural to grant us sufficient love and compassion for all humankind, to be in a position to end the undesirable issues occurring. which could be what some call Holy Spirit. yet, regrettably, which will by no skill ensue. till the universe as all of us understand it now no longer exists.

Answer 6

For a theist, you have three choices.

A God wants bad things to happen, and so is evil and malicious.

B God cannot control whether or not these things happen, and so is not omniscient or really, all that godly. Why would one worship this?

C God does not care if bad things happen, and so is not a personal god, but rather a distant and unfeeling god, something like the clockmaker who walked away, never to return.

Answer 7

Not to test you, not to punish you, not because God is mean. The only answer I found that makes any sense at all is that we don't deserve anything more than what we get in life. And yet God still sent his Son to take our place on the cross. I'll call that good enough, he didn't have to do that either.

Answer 8

The majority of this world does not even believe in God or call upon Him for guidance and protection or even obey His commandments and rules. He will politely step aside and let the chips fall where they may so to speak for them to see for themselves what this scriptures truly means....

. Matthew 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Answer 9

Because he gave man free agency. If he interferred he would removing agency and that would be against what he has set up. God does answer prayers, but he will not force someone to act a particular way, that was Satans plan.

Answer 10

God created man and gave us free will. All I can say is that everything happens for a reason. If u handle those reasons a respectful way then u will make it.

Answer 11

I think it's to teach us a lesson, and to show us He is here for us. Like when the Black Death came in the past, after the misery many people turned to the Catholic church to get more close to God. This Earth we live in was given to Satan, so he controls it. It's after death when we truly experience the grace of God and His son.