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If there is a god, why do bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people?
My parents are Hindus but I’ve been to Hindu temple, Buddhist temple, and church. Will someone explain this to me?
I really appreciate any info you can provide
If there is a god, why do bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people?
My parents are Hindus but I’ve been to Hindu temple, Buddhist temple, and church. Will someone explain this to me?
I really appreciate any info you can provide
If there is a god, why do you think it would care about what happens to people?
If there is a god, why do bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people?
My parents are Hindus but I’ve been to Hindu temple, Buddhist temple, and church. Will someone explain this to me?
I really appreciate any info you can provide
In Christianity, planet earth acts like a filter. It allows bad things to happen such that bad people will be eradicated once and for all. Of course, "good people" is not up to humans to define because humans can only judge from a small and incomplete window to evaluate a person. You don't actually know the deep inside of anyone you ever met. Plus that your judgment is based on one's present and past to determine who's bad and who's good. God however can see thought the future to evaluate who's good, of course in terms of His standard. His standard is built based on a scope of how you will act in an eternity.
Your line of thinking makes a mistake in assuming that earth is the final place built by God. However it is just an intern stage. God's final goal is to build heaven, not earth. In the Bible, earth is a wilderness where His sheep are scattered among the wolves.
In Christianity, planet earth acts like a filter. It allows bad things to happen such that bad people will be eradicated once and for all. Of course, "good people" is not up to humans to define because humans can only judge from a small and incomplete window to evaluate a person. You don't actually know the deep inside of anyone you ever met. Plus that your judgment is based on one's present and past to determine who's bad and who's good. God however can see thought the future to evaluate who's good, of course in terms of His standard. His standard is built based on a scope of how you will act in an eternity.
Your line of thinking makes a mistake in assuming that earth is the final place built by God. However it is just an intern stage. God's final goal is to build heaven, not earth. In the Bible, earth is a wilderness where His sheep are scattered among the wolves.
If there is a god, why do bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people?
My parents are Hindus but I’ve been to Hindu temple, Buddhist temple, and church. Will someone explain this to me?
I really appreciate any info you can provide
Mark 10:18 "And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone."
Simply put, none of us can expect to have a life free of trouble based on the idea that we're "good people".
If there is a god, why do bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people?
My parents are Hindus but I’ve been to Hindu temple, Buddhist temple, and church. Will someone explain this to me?
I really appreciate any info you can provide
that is an excellent question that is well-deserving of your time and attention to explore
the more sincere you are in exploring this, the more fruitful will be the results
the more you live in the question and continue to pursue it, and decline to be satisfied by glib shallow superficial answers (which effectively put a halt to acquiring any type of mastery in any area) the more wisdom and advancement you acquire.
it also helps to identify your intention and motive in asking the questions, and use self-awareness and honesty in noting how you respond to what your learn, how you use it or apply it. This is closely related to your motive and intention.
it is not just trying to get answers to your questions, the far more important exciting practical magnificent part is who you become in the process of exploring the big questions. It is a process of self-refinement. How willing are you to participate?
enjoy!
Last edited by Tzaphkiel; 10-16-2015 at 01:17 PM..
1) He's a horrible "person"
He creates arbitrary parameters for what constitutes as good. Stoning someone for being a homosexual is seen as fine because homosexuality is immoral, yet a man raping his wife is fine because a wife should always obey her husband. It's as if God's own personality flaws cause him to act and feel the way he does. For example, the God of the Bible is almost obviously a closeted homosexual with schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder. Thus, bad things happen (sometimes he does them intentionally) despite clearly having the power to not do that. That's called being a horrible person. If you're in a relationship and your significant others 'tests' you by making you put up with **** you shouldn't have to put up with, you're dating a manipulative sociopath. Some of you worship what is basically a psychotic girlfriend.
2) He doesn't care
The simple truth is God might not give a ****. You're an all powerful deity with a universe at your command. At that scale, does millions of starving children really matter? Assuming life exists outside of Earth, what possibly reason would this being have for caring about us all that much?
3) He's not as powerful as we think
The nicest theory is simply that he can't stop these things from happening. His power is strictly limited for whatever reason and he can't keep people from being murdered, including his so called 'chosen people,' by a psychotic dictator.
Sure there is a good, Justice, selfless, loving , God for people who seek Him out and repent of sin and get married to God in a covenant .... And God is a good God through Christ , and good things happen to Gods people , .......................and there is a dark evil spirit who are alien to God and has very limited natural powers and tries to be like God , but will bring bad things on people, like holding the will of man where he cannot change to be good or healthy like tobacco or the evil spirits will bring illness on people and hurt them ......................... Where God has more power through Christ to put the evil spirits out of God`s people when they follow God`s ways and pray and expected to receive
If there is a god, why do bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people?
My parents are Hindus but I’ve been to Hindu temple, Buddhist temple, and church. Will someone explain this to me?
I really appreciate any info you can provide
The existence of God is an opinion. In a world without God one would statistically expect bad things to sometimes happen to good people, and vise-versa.
In the physical world events are simply events. They have no intrinsic meaning until humans pass judgement on them, declaring them to be either good or bad. The physical world is indifferent. That may seem cold and harsh, but the physical world is indifferent to your opinion of it. It's true that majority opinion can often impact the nature of the way events transpire. Whether majority opinion is itself good or bad in nature is also an opinion, as the institution of slavery, for example, demonstrates.
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