"Why does God let bad things happen?"

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Nick01

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Jul 15, 2013
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Before saying anything else theological, I would zero in on this simple fact

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
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No matter what other objection we have, we know Jesus came to earth as a man, was mocked, suffered, left alone in the garden by God, ignored by his friends, eventually rejected by those he called his closest friends, and then was hung on a shameful cross with His Father no where in sight. Specific discussions of the why or what of your friend's child's death can come later, but perhaps sitting with this for a little bit will be best.

Can we deny the love of a God who would give His own Son, who came in the flesh, lived as we did and suffered in our place?

Maybe for now, that is enough.
 
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arb71

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Sin/satan and man is the reason why bad things happen. Remember, God intended for all of us to live happy, un-hurtful lives with the animals and all (Garden of Eden), but man brought sin into this world (not God) and as a result...bad things happen. What God gave man was the power and freedom to make his own choices whether to live in sin or holiness. Then he gave us his Son to redeem us, but he never said bad things would not happen, but instead we would suffer. He also made promises of deliverance, comfort and peace. This world is feeling the results of man's sin all over the world and it effects men, women, children, good people, bad people and Christians. It doesn't feel fair, but it is the fault of man, not God. Talk about bad things happening? A reply from Misesretone mentioned the life of Job. Now that's bad things happening and he was a perfect and upright man and HE WAS REAL! I believe that God allowed us to know his story to encourage us that we can make it even through victoriously through the bad things that happen. Finally, bad things happened to Jesus, we must bear our cross as well. Sometimes in our quest to win souls to Christ we share the blessings and promises, but we must also share the suffering role we inherit as Christians.
 
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littlebooks66

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Before 'Sin' came into the world bad things did NOT happen at all...

It took a powerful Spirit Creature (Satan) to bring it to mankind and God gave him, just as he gave Humans, Freewill to either obey or not...

Adam and Eve were created with everything they needed to be happy and live forever and bring perfect children into this world, but instead corrupted their flesh...

God had already stated his purpose to have 'Adam's Seed' fill the earth... Satan knew that, and he apparently tried to use this fact against God when he seduced Eve into following/worshiping him...

He challenged God! He basically said "I can rule these humans BETTER then you!"

Now if God were to have simply destroyed them, how many millions of his other Angelic sons would have seen this???

Perhaps they would have thought, "Hmmm, God shut them up real quick, didn't he?" and perhaps thought that 'Satan' was right!
What could a wise and JUST God do to prove to all intelligent creation that Satan could not rule humans better... and whats more, that humans could not rule themselves???

Allow for TIME to pass... Allow for humans to Rule/Govern themselves with every conceivable form of government until there was NO QUESTION as to who had the RIGHT and ABILITY to rule them...

You see, Satan NEVER ONCE challenged God's 'power' but he did challenge his 'Right' to rule and so the story in Genesis begins and lasts all the way down to our day...

What has mankind proven? Well, for one, God compares mankind's 'Kingdoms/Governments' to 'WILD BEASTS' (Just read through Daniel chapter 7)

Humans, separated from God as we are, are in danger of themselves... Think about it... Ever thought about the phrase 'He/She needs Jesus" ??? lol :)

We all do! We cannot direct our own steps! (Jeremiah 10:23)

GOD HAS PROMISED that all who follow his ways, and survive judgment day will live forever in peace... Death will be no more and all bad things WILL be gone... (Revelation 21:3, 4)

Until then, if God were to intervene and stop bad things from happening every time Humans made bad decisions, then we would start to believe that we REALLY COULD rule ourselves without him and that nothing bad would happen...

If God stopped bad consequences from happening then humans would think that EVIL IS GOOD!

That would make God party to a Lie, and we all know that God does not lie...

Bad things happen because people make decisions based upon what is in their hearts... and the human heart, well... the Bible says it best...

Also, Satan is there with his demons to push us over the edge... Until he is gone and Sin is removed from us, we will make bad decisions and bad things will happen...

BUT! UNTIL THEN! What can we do to LESSEN the blow??? What does God have to say about it?

(Isaiah 48:18) O if only you would actually pay attention to my commandments! Then your peace would become just like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Hope this helps

thanks
 
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