Zone1 Why Do Bad Things Happen?

[Unkotare]

One of the most facile "arguments" that atheists often fall back on is the banal "If God loves us, why does he let bad things happen?"

​ ​ "God’s delays are mysterious; sorrow is sometimes prolonged for the same reason for which it is sent. God may abstain for the moment from healing, not because Love does not love, but because Love never stops loving, and a greater good is to come from the woe. Heaven’s clock is different from ours." —Fulton J. Sheen​

 

[Auld Phart]

One of the most facile "arguments" that atheists often fall back on is the banal "If God loves us, why does he let bad things happen?"

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​ ​ "God’s delays are mysterious; sorrow is sometimes prolonged for the same reason for which it is sent. God may abstain for the moment from healing, not because Love does not love, but because Love never stops loving, and a greater good is to come from the woe. Heaven’s clock is different from ours." —Fulton J. Sheen​

I've always liked the way they handled it in Oh GOd Book 2

• I've always liked the way they handled it in Oh God book 2
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• God: [answering Tracy's question about why there is so much suffering in the world] I know this sounds like a cop-out, Tracy, but there's nothing I can do about pain and suffering. It's built into the system.
• Tracy Richards: Which You invented.
• God: Right. But My problem was, I could never figure out how to build anything with just one side to it.
• Tracy Richards: One side?
• God: You ever see a front without a back?
• Tracy Richards: No.
• God: A top without a bottom?
• Tracy Richards: No.
• God: An up without a down?
• Tracy Richards: No.
• God: OK. Then there can't be good without bad, life without death, pleasure without pain. That's the way it is. If I take sad away, happy has to go with it.

 

[shockedcanadian]

One of the most facile "arguments" that atheists often fall back on is the banal "If God loves us, why does he let bad things happen?"

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​ ​ "God’s delays are mysterious; sorrow is sometimes prolonged for the same reason for which it is sent. God may abstain for the moment from healing, not because Love does not love, but because Love never stops loving, and a greater good is to come from the woe. Heaven’s clock is different from ours." —Fulton J. Sheen​

G-d will get justice against evil perpetuated against good men.

Those who believe they can fool him or repent on their deathbed may be in for the greatest surprise.

 

[ding]

One of the most facile "arguments" that atheists often fall back on is the banal "If God loves us, why does he let bad things happen?"

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​ ​ "God’s delays are mysterious; sorrow is sometimes prolonged for the same reason for which it is sent. God may abstain for the moment from healing, not because Love does not love, but because Love never stops loving, and a greater good is to come from the woe. Heaven’s clock is different from ours." —Fulton J. Sheen​

So that good can come from it.

 

[rightwinger]

One of the most facile "arguments" that atheists often fall back on is the banal "If God loves us, why does he let bad things happen?"

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​ ​ "God’s delays are mysterious; sorrow is sometimes prolonged for the same reason for which it is sent. God may abstain for the moment from healing, not because Love does not love, but because Love never stops loving, and a greater good is to come from the woe. Heaven’s clock is different from ours." —Fulton J. Sheen​

The faithful have a similar response

Whenever something good happens, God gets all the credit
When something bad happens, God had nothing to do with it

 

[ReinyDays]

The faithful have a similar response

Whenever something good happens, God gets all the credit
When something bad happens, God had nothing to do with it

Replace the word "God" with "good" ...

How are we defining "good" and "bad" ... is not our daily bread "good" ... we eat and benefit, so it must be good always and forevermore ...

The wheat plants disagree ... why do you think God had nothing to do with their deaths ... murdered, in cold blood, er, cold sap ... poor plants ... we could have waited until the plant died a natural death ... instead of slicing it up and shredding what we don't want to rot on the ground until spring ... where was Goid when the combines were rolling? ..

What if those were YOUR children being eaten ...

 

[TNHarley]

The faithful have a similar response

Whenever something good happens, God gets all the credit
When something bad happens, God had nothing to do with it

Beat me to it.
Know what really gets me? Like when those tornadoes ripped through a few states last year and caused a lot of destruction, people were praising god because" he left the church standing" while hundreds were dead or homeless. SMH

 

[rightwinger]

Beat me to it.
Know what really gets me? Like when those tornadoes ripped through a few states last year and caused a lot of destruction, people were praising god because" he left the church standing" while hundreds were dead or homeless. SMH

Eagles credited God in winning the Super Bowl
What did God have against the Chiefs?

 

[TNHarley]

Eagles credited God in winning the Super Bowl
What did God have against the Chiefs?

Swift. That one is easily explainable

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Free Will means bad can happen.

 

[ReinyDays]

Swift. That one is easily explainable

You know the NFL threw the last Super Bowl so as to not offend the Swifties ... pure rot ...

 

[TNHarley]

"I love all my children. Now enjoy this category 5 hurricane "

 

[RetiredGySgt]

again, Free Will means that bad things can happen. If you don't understand that then there is no talking to you.

 

[TNHarley]

again, Free Will means that bad things can happen. If you don't understand that then there is no talking to you.

"free will" doesnt explain our dilemma here. Life choices contribute to a three year olds cancer? Or a family drowning in a flood?

 

[TNHarley]

What was even the point of creating venomous snakes? Was he trolling us?

 

[Woodznutz]

Free Will means bad can happen.

And we keep making the wrong choices.

 

[Woodznutz]

"free will" doesnt explain our dilemma here. Life choices contribute to a three year olds cancer? Or a family drowning in a flood?

God tells us that sh-t (time and chance) happens. Therefore, we should tread this life very carefully. God told us to choose between good and evil, we chose evil.

 

[Woodznutz]

"free will" doesnt explain our dilemma here. Life choices contribute to a three year olds cancer? Or a family drowning in a flood?

Of course it does.

 

[TNHarley]

Of course it does.

no it doesnt

 

[Woodznutz]

no it doesnt

We are victims or beneficiaries of our choices, and our antecedents' choices.