Why do bad things happen to good people, and vice versa?

Question

I just don't get it! I know life is not fair but, i need more of an explanation!

Answer 1

Because you touch yourself at night.

Answer 2

Well, you see Bad Things Must Happen to Good People. This is Nature.

What happen when bad things happen to Good people, they are being tried and tested and this even shaped and build them to be better and better and help them to succeed.

But What About Bad people, they are always enjoying life and it seems that they can always get away with things that they did.

Well guess what, they are actually getting worse and worse.

Now to illustrate this. Which is easier going down the mountain or going up the mountain?

It is definietly easier to go down the mountain. In Life when everything is so easy on you, nothing bad happens, man you are heading for trouble soon.

But when life is so tough, bad things are happening to you one after another, you are growing and you are learning a lot of new things and you are going up to the top of the mountain.

It is why some of the most successful people in this world are some of the people that always have bad things happening to them.

One of very good example is Thomas Edison. His factory and home was burned down, even before he make any breakthrough in his findings

Answer 3

It's the laws of probability in the universe. There are a billion things going on around you that may affect your life positively or negatively. You cannot predict them so you cannot take any kind of defensive or evasive action against them.

If you have some kind of belief that says that "good" people should never experience any kind of negative incidents, then I don't know what to tell you.

That's basically life, and that's the way it is.

This is one of the biggest mind-benders that believers have to deal with. In their mind, they are "convinced" of a benevolent God, so everything that happens to them, they believe happens by God's hand and not simply their own choices - good or bad.

So, if something "good" happens to them, they thank God and get this idea that they must be living right. If something "bad" happens to them, they tell themselves that God is "testing" them.

They simply cannot accept the fact that life is a combination of at least two major factors: 1) their own choices and decisions, and 2) unpredicatble forces.

What I'm telling you is that you could live a totally righteous life, and then one day walk out and get hit by a bus or a meteor, or, you could live a life of total debauchery, and stumble upon a million dollars.

That's life.

Welcome to reality.

Answer 4

There is only good because there is bad. In other words, if everything was good, we would not be able to know (or appreciate) that it was good, because there would be nothing to compare it to. Of course, some things may always seem bad to you (like the death of a loved one) but some things which you see as bad now, in the future may seem good. Some of the things that have happened to me, which I thought were terrible at the time, l later realized were some of my greatest blessings. Peace to you.

Answer 5

You are not alone or the first to ask this question; read Psalms 72 which says in part:
 
2 As for me, my feet had almost turned aside,
My steps had nearly been made to slip.
 3 For I became envious of the boasters,
[When] I would see the very peace of wicked people.
 4 For they have no deathly pangs;
And their paunch is fat.
 5 They are not even in the trouble of mortal man,
And they are not plagued the same as other men.
 6 Therefore haughtiness has served as a necklace to them;
Violence envelops them as a garment.
 7 Their eye has bulged from fatness;
They have exceeded the imaginations of the heart.
 8 They scoff and speak about what is bad;
About defrauding they speak in an elevated style.
 9 They have put their mouth in the very heavens,
And their tongue itself walks about in the earth.
10 Therefore he brings his people back hither,
And the waters of what is full are drained out for them.
11 And they have said: “How has God come to know?
And does there exist knowledge in the Most High?”
12 Look! These are the wicked, who are at ease indefinitely.
They have increased [their] means of maintenance.
13 Surely it is in vain that I have cleansed my heart
And that I wash my hands in innocence itself.
14 And I came to be plagued all day long,
And my correction is every morning.
15 If I had said: “I will tell a story like that,”
Look! against the generation of your sons
I should have acted treacherously.
16 And I kept considering so as to know this;
It was a trouble in my eyes,
17 Until I proceeded to come into the grand sanctuary of God.
I wanted to discern their future.
18 Surely on slippery ground is where you place them.
You have made them fall to ruins.
19 O how they have become an object of astonishment as in a moment!
[How] they have reached their end, have been brought to their finish through sudden terrors!

Answer 6

I used to ask the same question. I am a young Christian man and God sometimes allow these things to happen for a reason. A child learns how to ride a bicycle, by falling and bruising himself, but everyday this child grows smarter and learn how to balance himself better on the bike. Until one day this child no longer falls of the bike.
Sometimes we ask God, why this happens? Why me? Instead I learn to ask God, what do you want me learn? I was involved in a 3-car accident one day, I wanted to blame God. Instead I asked, what do you want me learn? I was the last guy at the rear and the liability insurance did not cover the damage to my car. I was stuck with a wrecked car in my first day of college.
Before this accident I was the type of guy that always gave up and complained about my problems. After the accident, I asked God, what do you want me to learn? God taught me a life lesson and I am even grateful that this happened, if it didn't happen I would still be the same loser. The next day I woke up, with a resolve to fix the situation. People were telling me, why don't you dump your car? Why don't you give up? Why don't you just get another car? Why are you not making any sense?
I was fed up with following the crowd. A fire inside of me that I never knew before ignited, the Leader inside of me emerged like a champion. I fixed my car and people today can't even tell that an accident happened by looking at it. God taught me a valuable lesson. I didn't just fix my car, I fixed my life. I learned not to give up, I learned to believe in God and myself, I learned not to fear my problems but to face them. Most important, I learn that with God nothing is impossible.

I hope this helped you. It helped me. God bless you.

Answer 7

According to REO Speedwagon and Darwin, only the strong survive (implying a less than happy ending for the weak). Those of us who are quicker and smarter tend to avoid misfortune with a little more consistency than the lesser endowed of our brethren. Brains and brawn may not always win out over good intentions and dumb luck, but they tend to tilt the odds in their favor.

Hope it helped.

Answer 8

Because the good people offer the best chance of becoming better. Good people learn from their negative experiences. Bad things happening to bad people doesn't do much to improve the world because they never seem to learn, no matter what.

Answer 9

Because life is random, there is no such thing as fate or pre-ordained plan, bad things happen to ALL people because of coincidence, Murphy's Law, and random acts of nature and people. When the tectonic plates crash into each other and cause human calamities, are they worried about who's good and bad? Don't make me laugh.

To think that good people are protected or somehow immune to the laws of nature is not logical or rational. If you start believing in fate and pre-ordained plans, then you're reverted to superstitious CAVE MAN logic....don't do it. Just kidding, do and believe what you want.

Answer 10

Nothing bad really happens, ever. Life gives you obstacles for you to improve yourself, but sometimes we fail and fall, then we get up and keep trying. Something like learning to ride a horse or a bike!0!

Answer 11

Good and bad happens to everyone. Everything in life balances out in the end, its nature.