If there is a reason for everything that happens........?

Question

Then what could be the possible reasons the following situations(not related to any other) happened? You know that saying "Everything happens for a reason"? Be as creative as you want!


Two friends have a night together emotionally bonding to a deeper level and by the end of the night they agree to have a one night stand together with gentle love-making like. BUT The guy has a fiance and his friend he slept with knew that. What could be the reason for that happening? They are much closer friends and they still hang out.

A five year old child dies.

A teenager dies in a car crash.

An innocent pure chaste girl gets raped.

A mother/father/brother is murdered.

Someone wins the lottery.

A three month old infant dies in his/her sleep unexpectedly.

So if everything happens for a reason, what could be the 'reason' why the above situations happened?

Again none of those situations are related to one another.

Answer 1

Two friends have a night together emotionally bonding to a deeper level and by the end of the night they agree to have a one night stand together with gentle love-making like. BUT The guy has a fiance and his friend he slept with knew that. What could be the reason for that happening? They are much closer friends and they still hang out.

Love transcends all and recognizes no boundaries or limits. One can love more than one. In fact, as we evolve to greater perfection, we will learn to love everyone. The relationship between any two individuals is for them to decide for themselves, alone. It can be intimate and private or open to the public. Up to them. In our many incarnations, we have had many mothers, fathers, spouses and children. In some of our lives, our children now may have been our parent or our spouse and vice versa. But love is never lost. Our inner feelings filter through to us by way of our intuition. Love cannot be denied.

A five year old child dies.

We come to earth (incarnate or are born) in order to learn lessons. At the end of our planned studies, we die and return home to Heaven, our true home.

A teenager dies in a car crash.

Perhaps, the teenager should learn to be more careful and not be so reckless. End of lesson.

An innocent pure chaste girl gets raped.

Perhaps she only appears to be chaste in her outward demeanor. But in fact, this girl entertains thoughts of forcing herself on another to satisfy her lust or desire to control. Placed in the other’s shoes and getting raped will help her to realize that committing such an act can cause so much harm to others. Realizing the consequences, hopefully, she will be dissuaded from committing the same. Maybe in a previous life, this girl was a man who committed rape. He is only paying off his own karmic debt. We reap what we sow. In our numberless incarnations, we will undergo every sort of experience – good and bad by worldly standards. But they are all of them vital lessons and opportunities that enable us to grow and evolve. There is no other way for us to progress.

A mother/father/brother is murdered.

Same as in the case of the chaste girl.

Someone wins the lottery.

It is part of his lesson to come to possess big money without working for it so that he may realize what Jesus teaches, that “all these things will simply be added unto you”. Further, the money will provide him the opportunities whereby he may learn the proper uses of money or wealth from personal experience.

A three month old infant dies in his/her sleep unexpectedly.

Some of our past life lessons may have been unfinished. Some short lessons taken up in previous lives may not have been fully learned. Some suicides did not complete their requirements. Short lives may be adequate to make up for what were missed. At the same time, the loss will afford those involved with it, its parents and siblings, other lessons specially suited to them, according to their own needs.

Answer 2

It is hard to disprove that everything happens for a reason. One can always appeal to hidden forces at work that are imperceptible to human eyes. Conversely, it seems difficult to believe or prove that there is an overarching cosmic reason for every occurrence. Is there really an overarching reason why a young child develops bone cancer? Was there really a grand reason for the Holocaust or Transatlantic slavery? What is the reason that one person is involved in a fatal car wreck or another person has his or her possessions stolen? I guess that a believer could always say that God or fate is behind these events. But that position (as formulated) is not falsifiable. Yet, is something that is not falsifiable true or worthy of serious attention.

Answer 3

1) For sexual gratification. They feel closer because they shared something special, even though (IMO) it was for the wrong reasons.
2) To teach us life can be short, and we should treasure each other accordingly.
3) Again, sexual gratification. Or since some research has shown that sex is not the primary reason behind most rapes, it might be an example of 'Free Will'; the male has the freedom to attack, and the girl was unfortunately in the area.
4) Mankind is inherently violent in nature.
5) Someone takes a risk, and wins.
6) To foster more research into SIDS... and again to make us more aware that life is precious.

Answer 4

It is often inherently impossible to understand the interaction of the multitude of causes that appear to trigger a specific observable effect. Thus, even if a causal relationship exists in nature and is recognizable as such, knowledge of the specific cause/effect relationship might not necessarily result in the ability to project or forecast complex events accurately.

Life can be seen as random events where only the laws of probability prevail....as seen in the following?

Your lifetime odds of dying as a consequence of an asteroid or meteor impact are closer to 1 in 200,000, however. Better to eat well, exercise, wear your seat-belt & have some fun!



Cause of Death Lifetime Odds
Heart Disease
1-in-5

Cancer
1-in-7

Stroke
1-in-23

Accidental Injury
1-in-36

Motor Vehicle Accident*
1-in-100

Intentional Self-harm (suicide)
1-in-121

Falling Down
1-in-246

Assault by Firearm
1-in-325

Fire or Smoke
1-in-1,116

Natural Forces (heat, cold, storms, quakes, etc.)
1-in-3,357

Electrocution*
1-in-5,000

Drowning
1-in-8,942

Air Travel Accident*
1-in-20,000

Flood* (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-30,000

Legal Execution
1-in-58,618

Tornado* (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-60,000

Lightning Strike (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-83,930

Snake, Bee or other Venomous Bite or Sting*
1-in-100,000

Earthquake (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-131,890

Dog Attack
1-in-147,717

Asteroid Impact*
1-in-200,000**

Tsunami* 1-in-500,000

Fireworks Discharge
1-in-615,488

Answer 5

Humans have been bewildered since the dawn of time on the reason why things happened. I think we'd be much better off to find reasons that we could control, prevent, improve or at least understand and not trying to keep asking for deeper and deeper explanations.

For example, in your first example, the reason was that both young people were attracted to each other and were too weak to control thier impulses inspite of the guy being engaged.

A five-year old child died because of illness or an accident..A teenager died in a car crash because of the poor weather, carelessness or drunkeness by himself or the other driver...

Someone wins a lottery because he bought a ticket and the winning number was drawn at random and it just happens to be the number of his ticket. It could have been someone else and frquently was.

Answer 6

If you can't see the reason right away, it does not mean that it doesn't exist. Maybe a five year old child or a three month old infant who die were supposed to been the next Hitlers. Believe me, everything happens for a reason. I can tell.

Answer 7

We as humans have a tendency to believe that some forces beyond our control determine the course of our lives. Why do you think shindigs like horoscopes are so successful? The fact that we are born at a certain time of the year will at most explain 1% of our behavior, and why don't the horoscopes ever say anything like you are going to die today.

Answer 8

The reason for the two friends sleeping together: each one has no self control, they give in to SELFISH lust, and don't truly love the fiance.

However, the reason to most things that are not our choosing, will not be known to us. People sometimes think knowing the reason will ease their pain or help them move on, it won't.
Hope is the one thing that will see you through, and my hope is Christ who has shown Himself trustworthy.

Answer 9

There are no reasons. But human beings cannot live in a void & let things be so we invent reasons otherwise we will be scared. So yes ...be as creative as you like

Answer 10

There is a reason for everything that happens.

Sometimes the reason is random chance.

Other times it isn't.