Isn't the "if God exists, then why do bad things happen to good people" a bad argument?

Question

I am sick and tired of atheists taking Bible verses out of context and using tragedies to suit their own purpose.

God gave us free will, which is why bad things happen. God never said life would be easy. Life is a test. It is supposed to help you grow.

One of the dumbest questions I have ever seen was, "If you were God, would you allow a child to be raped and murdered?".

Hello? The child feels no pain and they will be in Heaven for eternity and the rapist will get what is coming to them.

I know some things may be hard to understand, but we are nothing compared to God and it is not our place to ever question Him.

Everything that happens is done with our best interest in mind.

Agree?

If you want to look at a prime example of how God helps us, just look at the story of Job. He went through horrible times, but he still kept his faith.

Answer 1

wait...
did you seriously just say the child feels no pain?
haha. i should get someone to molest you and see if you experience any pain.
:)

Answer 2

"Stupid question?" Also the wrong question dipshit! If you're going to make a claim make sure you know what you're talking about. The question is because God is omnipotent and is all loving and good, why is there such a thing as evil. God is perfect, He should be able to stop it, yet He doesn't therefore God most likely doesn't exist, at least under the premise that religion underlines. It's more like an argument against most religions' definition of God, not directly addressing the existence of God.

Answer 3

The child will go to heaven, and the parents, grandparents, siblings, and others who love the child will live in hell on earth. Also, the child's last memories of earth will be terror and violence. It is NEVER fair for a child, or an adult, either, to be raped and murdered.

I can only say that God does not micromanage events on earth. A LOT of bad things happen. A LOT of evil and violence occurs down here where the devil is called the Prince of Darkness, the Prince of the Power of the Air, and the God of this World. He is VERY powerful, and if he weren't, he would never have thought he could take on God in war. But he did.

It isn't true that everything that happens is done with our best interest in mind. If that were true, then God would be the Great Abuser in the Sky. He's not; we live on the same planet with a horrible and powerful enemy who takes casualties, just like in every war. That's why bad things happen. I believe that bad things DO happen outside the will of God. It's the only way I can believe in an all-loving Father.

Answer 4

I am inclined to agree it is a poor agruement, but there are also many others to disprove Chistianity.

I have to disagree with you in saying "The child feels no pain ". Thats quite far beyond ignorance. How would the child not feel pain in being raped/murdered? Is it fuly frugged and unconcious? Then killed by painless means? Highly unlikely.

What would constitute the child to be in heaven forever? WHat if they had not been baptised and/or had already comiited sin. Then in purgatory did not accept the gospel? They aren't going to heaven.

Thus, while the arguement of "if god exists, hy do bad things happen to good people" is bad, your counter-arguement is worse.

Final Opinion- Disagree

Answer 5

So looking at this from a Christian point of view, say some guy, we'll call him Bob, is commiting a sin of some sort, like...whatever (we'll say he's cheated on his wife and hasn't yet "repented"), he's on his way home to tell her and stops at the ATM to get money out so he can buy the apology present--roses. While at the ATM, he gets held up by someone we'll call Joe, who forces him to get in a car, and takes him somewhere, shoots and kills him. According to the Christian viewpoint, Bob is going to hell because he didn't die with a clean conscience, he was guilty, blah, blah, blah. Why would God have allowed that to happen? Why didn't he do something so that if Joe absolutely HAD to kill Bob, why couldn't he have done it after Bob repented? Your God is ridiculous, he makes no sense, and I'm glad that I finally saw the scam for what it was.

Liesel.

Answer 6

Wait, are you saying that when a child is molested that it's okay because the child will live on in heaven and the molester will go to hell? That's sick. That's taking the "lets leave everything for god to decide" too far.

If your god existed, he'd play as big a part in our lives as he did in the lives of those in the Bible. Unfortunately for the children who DO get molested (and fortunately for the molester) god doesn't exist and such crimes against humanity go unpunished unless the child tells someone. Fortunately there are human systems in place to punish the offender and support the child.

If your god exists he's basically given up on mankind and is saying "Hey, deal with it yourself, I'm not helping the innocent people that get hurt because I gave humans inherent flaws in their design that causes them to hurt others for fun".

Answer 7

"One of the dumbest questions I have ever seen was, "If you were God, would you allow a child to be raped and murdered?".

Hello? The child feels no pain and they will be in Heaven for eternity and the rapist will get what is coming to them."

>> What if the child isn't a Christian? What if the rapist is, and repents?

Answer 8

... "the child feels no pain"?!? Where the heck did you get this idea from?

Any god sick enough to use rape and murder as some sort of plan, or method of making a point, is disgusting and shouldn't be followed. At all.

Answer 9

hello- would you feel pain if someone inserted a wood embedded with nails up your *** as someone did here on raping a child.As pain is not there and it assures the victim a place in heaven, let you and i start raping young girls, start with your child. or your neighbours daughter or son. You are a despicable. low class imbecellic christian who makes such a statement- in fact maybe you should be investigated for acts of paedophile- as you assume that raping children causes no pain so it is right. I am ashamed that a human being like you exists, but i guess there are many like you in the christian religion who hurt children just to give them a place in the heaven which they profess exists - a place in heaven- so rape a child- my foot

Answer 10

You have seriously got to be kidding...the child feels no pain? What about the child who gets raped and then doesnt get killed and has to live with that pain for the rest of her life. How would/could such a loving "god" allow that to happen. And please, no BS about free will. If he were so loving he wouldnt allow it to happen period.

Answer 11

I agree that the specific sentence "why does god let...blah blah" is trite. Simply from overuse.

But, the bible is an excellent source for contradictions and bad logic. Out of context? What context is stoning, raping, burning, killing, slavery (etc...) is it "ok" in??