why bad things happen to good people?

Question

BIBLICAL

Answer 1

Because God doesn't really like people, in The Old Testament especially.

Answer 2

Let us consider an illustration. Imagine that a teacher is telling his students how to solve a difficult problem. A clever but rebellious student claims that the teacher’s way of solving the problem is wrong. Implying that the teacher is not capable, this rebel insists that he knows a much better way to solve the problem. Some students think that he is right, and they also become rebellious.

What should the teacher do? If he throws the rebels out of the class, what will be the effect on the other students? Will they not believe that their fellow student and those who joined him are right? All the other students in the class might lose respect for the teacher, thinking that he is afraid of being proved wrong. But suppose that the teacher allows the rebel to show the class how he would solve the problem.

Jehovah has done something similar to what the teacher does. Remember that the rebels in Eden were not the only ones involved. Millions of angels were watching. (Job 38:7; Daniel 7:10) How Jehovah handled the rebellion would greatly affect all those angels and eventually all intelligent creation. So, what has Jehovah done? He has allowed Satan to show how he would rule mankind. God has also allowed humans to govern themselves under Satan’s guidance.

The teacher in our illustration knows that the rebel and the students on his side are wrong. But he also knows that allowing them the opportunity to try to prove their point will benefit the whole class. When the rebels fail, all honest students will see that the teacher is the only one qualified to lead the class. They will understand why the teacher thereafter removes any rebels from the class. Similarly, Jehovah knows that all honesthearted humans and angels will benefit from seeing that Satan and his fellow rebels have failed and that humans cannot govern themselves. Like Jeremiah of old, they will learn this vital truth: “I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.”—Jeremiah 10:23.

Answer 3

Because God has a purpose for all things done, good or bad to his people. Bad things build character in your life. If you suffer a lot you will have more character. Job was this sort of guy that was a good man and suffered a lot even though God said many times he was a perfect man , not JUST GOOD. Job is the very first written book of the Bible and over 500 years before Genisis was written. And this was the reason that book was written to answer your exact question. Because this was the biggest and most important question mankind had for God, so good question.

Answer 4

In the beginning God completely sustained His creation without blemish. That’s why it was perfect. He held every atom together in a perfect state. He kept the planets in their orbits. He kept animals from tripping and breaking their necks. He did not allow people to suffer and die.
Deuteronomy 8:4 gives us a little glimpse of how things might have been in the original creation. “Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.” God is omnipotent and perfectly capable of sustaining and protecting his creation.
When Adam sinned, however, the Lord cursed the universe. In essence there was a change and along with that change God seemingly took away a little bit of his sustaining power and allowed things like suffering and death into His creation. Now He permits bad things to happen—and this is a reminder that sin has consequences and that the world needs a Savior. Romans 8:22 says, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”

God took pleasure in all of His creation ("http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=revelation+4:11&version=NKJV"), but He loved people most of all. He allowed the created universe to deteriorate so we would see the consequences of our sin. If we did not see the consequences of our sin, we would never see that we need salvation from our sin, and we would never accept His offer of mercy for our sin. Most people easily recognize that there is a problem in the world. This can be used to show them that there is one who has overcome this problem of death and suffering—Jesus Christ.

Answer 5

BIBLICALLY.
The rain falls on both the good and the bad.

Answer 6

The Bible says that “all things work together for good to them that love the Lord” (Rom. 8:28). This ‘all things’ will include unpleasant trials.

God brings trials for some of the following reasons into the life of the believer:

(1) To bring us closer to Himself.
(2) To test us.
(3) To bring new obedience into the life of the believer.

Whatever the trial we may be facing, we need to keep in mind that, “the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us” (Rom. 8:18).

Now what about unbelievers? God may bring dark providence into the lives of unbelievers for some of the following reasons:

(1) To bring sinners savingly to Himself.
(2) To punish sinners.
(3) It is the result of their own doing.

The above are only some of the reasons, according to the Bible, why God may bring trials into one’s life.

I've always said the worst thing that God can allow in your life is nothing. Bad things can cause us to take faith and grow. When bad things take place in your life, reach out to God with faith - don't let the trial harden you.

Answer 7

Bad things happen to all people. But so do good things. Its just a matter of what you choose to focus on.

Answer 8

Bad things happen to everyone.

Answer 9

Good + Bad = the whole

accept both, then life is complete

Answer 10

We are human.

Christians get tested and sometimes illness, money & other things bad happen, but sinners has bad streaks too.

Answer 11

The laws of nature are punishing and rewarding everyone, according to our pious and impious activities.
For example: there are many slaughter houses of animals, we have to pay back with our lives for the unnecessary killing of all this poor innocents creatures just for giving pleasure to human tongue. Slaughter hause for animals= slaughter house for men