is believing in everything happens for a reason something good to believe in.?

Question

sometimes i question that?
is it in the bible?
do you think its someting good to believe in?
or what has believing in everything happens for a reason got you too

Answer 1

I used to believe this way years ago when I was a christian. This line of thinking, to me, is just a way to make up an excuse for the god that failed or a way to cope with events that happen in your life.
My husband and I lost our daughter last year. She only lived 14 hours. We were devastated. It was much easier for us to accept that things just happen, no rhyme, no reason. There is just no reason acceptable to me, to allow such a thing to happen. No lesson to be learned, no direction to follow, things just happen.

Answer 2

Very good question. I have a very close friend who believes that. I find it very problematic.

If you think about it, if everything happens for the best of all possible reasons then bad is good. If, to be extreme, a madman chops off your thumb then that was a good thing. Chopping off your thumb gave you a renewed appreciation for your other nine fingers and taught you how to live with hardship, etc., so not having your thumb chopped off would, by bizarre logic, have been worse than having your thumb chopped off. In this sort of world view, everything horrible is actually good.

It seems far more liberating and realistic to me to realize that awful things do sometimes happen and there's no reason to try to rationalize why it's for the better. It's not for the better, but make the best of the situation because that's the only choice you have.

The worst instance I hear is when someone tells a grieving parent that it's a good thing his or her child has died. This invariably angers me even if the person saying it has some misguided notion that it's somehow a kind thing to say. A dead child is not good. It is a terrible sorrow, but we must go on as best we can. I find it easier to do so without having to invent reasons why it's a good thing.

Answer 3

Yes and No. Believing in that makes you find meaning in the most mundane things. It makes you appreciate even the smallest things as being a part of God's plan. However, this can be dangerous. If you believe that everything that happens in the day has a purpose in the plan of God, then you could be inclined to believe that God CAUSED everything to happen. This doesn't seem dangerous, unless you look at all the bad in the world as well as the good. Did God cause someone to be murdered or raped? Did he cause children to die from famine or wars to happen? You have to keep things in perspective. Romans 8:28 says that God uses all things for his purposes. But, be careful to make the wrong conclusion that God causes everything. I hope this helps.

Answer 4

It's odd you ask this question. I have been pondering on this myself. I feel when you believe everything happens for a reason it's just a way of denying or accepting the fact. Doesn't it seem you say this usually when something negative is happening. It's ones way of justifying the means. As far as the bible I know of nowhere of it being said. I guess it's just an answer you give to yourself when you don't have a real answer?

Answer 5

No, I don't think that's a healthy belief at all, to believe that everything happens for a reason, and especially that God has mysterious reasons for everything that happens to us. This is pretty close to saying God causes everything that happens to us. I could not trust or have faith in a God I believed was like a cosmic puppeteer, bringing bad things into my life to teach me lessons. Bad things happen, good things happen, we can learn from both, and we can experience God through both. You're asking good questions of your faith, don't let people persuade you to go for easy answers.

Answer 6

I think that god-believer attitude is pure nonsense.

Reason is what man applies to the chaotic randomness around him. The noise of thunder is startling until it's understood that it is the result of lightening heating the air rapidly... and learning that fact, by scientific reasoning, helps to sort out the next would-be startling event. Saying that everything is so as a reason of god... "because willed it"... is nothing but stagnation. It's an attitude that will insure stupidity will last infinitely. let's be done with it.

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Answer 7

My husband and I were looking into a house to buy, everything was set at the table, and then, something came up, we had to leave never signed the papers lost the house, that burnt down a week later. Yep things do happen for a reason, When you get a feeling not to go somewhere, or not to go into a building, or store, or even traveling down a certain street, listen to it. You'll probably be glad you did.

Answer 8

It is good to question things. You should question everything.

It is not in the bible, it is just a phrase.

I think it is a very bad thing to believe in, because what are you going to do when Grandma dies of pancreatic cancer or Sparky gets hit by a trash truck? It all happened for a reason, right? Well then what reason is it, to please a sadistic god? To punish you?

Sh!t happens, basically... if you start assigning reasons to unreasonable things then you will become very unreasonable and cross.

Answer 9

you 'read too much in-between-the-line' when things happen they don't need a reason!!, & they do not explained to you or anyone else, you've no control on why, how, & when it occured, it may or may not be in the bible, it may or may not be 'good to believe', you'll go crazy in trying to find a reason to everything that happens & those that do not happen

Answer 10

Actually, many things that happen are simply chance events. Like the roll of a dice, most events are undeterminable. Thus, there really is such a thing as good luck (fortunate chance events) and bad luck (unfortunate chance events).

However, all those chance events provide opportunities to respond to God. If it rains on our parade, we can share our umbrellas.