Why does God let good things happen to bad people?

Answer 1

God lets both good things and bad things to happen to all kinds of people.

Answer 2

Let me ask you something first. Do you have any children? We are all God's children. Even though our own children sometimes do bad things, don't we still love them and help them? God loves us and lets good things happen in my opinion to "bad" people hoping they will become good. Remember that we are not judged by God until "after" we die, so all people are capable of doing bad things. There is a song that has a phrase "in the quiet heart is hidden sorrow that the eye can't see." God sees us in a different light than we see others,and so he has the right more than anyone else to let good things happen to "bad" people.

Answer 3

People of various religions have gone to their religious leaders and teachers to ask why there is so much suffering. Often, the response is that suffering is God’s will and that he long ago determined everything that would ever happen, including tragic events. Many are told that God’s ways are mysterious or that he brings death upon people—even children—so that he can have them in heaven with him. As you have learned, though, Jehovah God never causes what is bad. The Bible says: “Far be it from the true God to act wickedly, and the Almighty to act unjustly!”—Job 34:10.

Do you know why people make the mistake of blaming God for all the suffering in the world? In many cases, they blame Almighty God because they think that he is the real ruler of this world. They do not know a simple but important truth that the Bible teaches.
The Bible clearly states: “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” (1 John 5:19) When you think about it, does that not make sense? This world reflects the personality of the invisible spirit creature who is “misleading the entire inhabited earth.” (Revelation 12:9) Satan is hateful, deceptive, and cruel. So the world, under his influence, is full of hatred, deceit, and cruelty. That is one reason why there is so much suffering.
A second reason why there is so much suffering is that mankind has been imperfect and sinful ever since the rebellion in the garden of Eden. Sinful humans tend to struggle for dominance, and this results in wars, oppression, and suffering. (Ecclesiastes 4:1; 8:9) A third reason for suffering is “time and unforeseen occurrence.” (Ecclesiastes 9:11) In a world without Jehovah God as a protective Ruler, people may suffer because they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

To find out why God allows suffering, we need to think back to the time when suffering began. When Satan led Adam and Eve into disobeying Jehovah, an important question was raised. Satan did not call into question Jehovah’s power. Even Satan knows that there is no limit to Jehovah’s power. Rather, Satan questioned Jehovah’s right to rule. By calling God a liar who withholds good from his subjects, Satan charged that Jehovah is a bad ruler. (Genesis 3:2-5) Satan implied that mankind would be better off without God’s rulership. This was an attack on Jehovah’s sovereignty, his right to rule.
Adam and Eve rebelled against Jehovah. In effect, they said: “We do not need Jehovah as our Ruler. We can decide for ourselves what is right and what is wrong.” How could Jehovah settle that issue? How could he teach all intelligent creatures that the rebels were wrong and that his way truly is best? Someone might say that God should simply have destroyed the rebels and made a fresh start. But Jehovah had stated his purpose to fill the earth with the offspring of Adam and Eve, and he wanted them to live in an earthly paradise. (Genesis 1:28) Jehovah always fulfills his purposes. (Isaiah 55:10, 11) Besides that, getting rid of the rebels in Eden would not have answered the question that had been raised regarding Jehovah’s right to rule.
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 4

You've got to look at it from a different perspective. Bad people might have good things happen to them now, but sooner or later it'll all catch up to them. Everything in life is part of a challenge, a lesson in our own spiritual evolution. What do you think those people can gain from those experiences, and besides which, perhaps the real subject of the challenge is yourself. Are these people really bad? Do you have a right to judge them? Who says what you see happening is good?
Things happen for a reason, but if we knew the reason in advance it wouldn't make life much fun, now, would it?

Answer 5

I don't know, but I am sure that judgment is a human experience, not a God quality. As spiritual beings having a human experience we must have judgment in order to create our own sense of morality.

What may seem to be a good thing happening to a bad person may in fact be a bad thing happening to a good person. How could we ever know?

Answer 6

Well thats not true.

Lets take Saddam for example. At first he had it good, then he was hiding in a hole, then he got hung.

Lets take Hitler, he had very big ambitious plans and controlled 99% of Europe and parts of Africa.Then next thing you know he shot himself in a bunker outside of Berlin when the Russians were coming in.

Bin Laden had it very good to, now he is in a cave in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

When good things does happen to bad people, it doesn't last long, and they eventually die and or are punished in another way. So in a way, its a sign saying that God will punish them.

Answer 7

for the same reason he lets bad things happen to good people....which no one knows because the human mind is not capable of understanding how God works.

Answer 8

The religious view seems to be that, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. You can't see the light without the dark. It could be a test of faith, or something to strengthen character.

The non-religious view is that this world isn't fair, and there is no God to prevent bad things from happening.

The gnostic view is that we all come to Earth by choice, to learn. Kind of an "Earth-school" to improve our immortal souls. I think this is the happiest and most encouraging possibility.

Answer 9

We are all born in to a world of sin. Bad things happen, accidents, suffering, poverty, etc...
We have a choice of 2 road to take, good or evil..
When we get to the age of accountability we either accept Jesus as our personal Savior or live in evil..
Once we accept Jesus, He helps us with bad things that happen in our lives.. He did not promise that our days would be perfect on this sinful earth but He did promise to help us through all situations....
Its not a fact of God letting things happen, we are amongst evil all the time and it is important to rely on Him for our every need. He brightens the darkest days and hugs up real close when we are in need of that special blessing...

Answer 10

For something to be able to let anything happen at all, it must first exist: therein lies your problem. God doesn't exist. Good things happen to bad people because the world is indifferent to our plight. The world does not even suspect our existence. We must battle chance and life head on, without the excuse or comforts of a loving-all-powerful father in the sky. Things just happen, we as humans prescribe the qualities of "good" or "bad" to them in relation to our desires and values. When a bad thing happens to anyone, it's merely chance: there is no divine meaning behind it.