Why Do Bad Things Happen If God Exists??

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  1. Nachos

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    Dear ,
    Two different perspective to offer you:
    1. If you have read any holy scripture, god says that everything that happens, good or bad is moha Maya( illusion). This keeps on happening as per your karmic record as long as you keep taking rebirth till you attain salvation. So God really can't interfere in what's happening in your life.

    2. This perspective is based on new thought that we are the creators of our reality by our focus. So if we focus on good, good happens in the future. If we focus on bad, bad happens in the future. Read this link if you want specific answer to your question

    How Does the Law of Attraction Explain Child Abuse?
     
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    There is a saying that evil happens not (only) due to the actions of bad people but more due to the inaction of the good.

    The holocaust was preventable had the good germans stood up for their jewish neighbors.. had they refused to be a part of the mass brainwash by Hitler. The failure of the good to act gave the bad ones unrestrained freedom to commit crimes against humanity.

    Rape of young children is the failure of society - failure to create strong laws, a breakdown of key values, failure of the good people who voted such hindutva fanatics, society which allowed the slow cancerous spread of hateful concepts & even the failure of the good parents who naively put their child in harm's way (allowing a young child to wander freely unsupervised). Somebody has to pay and it is usually the weak and vulnerable.

    The book "The difficulty of being good" by Gurcharan Das explains how this concept plays out in the Mahabharatha and draws parallels to it in the Indian political context. A highly recommended must read !

    Why blame god for mistakes that we, the people, committed ?
     
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    Very true .
     
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    Humans are evil. God gives us free will. Our world is being watched by other worlds that are not corrupt. It isn't all for nothing. God will bring back each child that was pure. God wants us to call out to him, he wants a revival. He wants us to stop relying on humans and rely upon Christ. He wants us to be saved. Hell was created for the Devil and his angels, it's not supposed to be for humans. Humans given free will will not be forced to be good. There will come a time where God will stop reaching out to humans, and then the end will come. Notice in the last 5 years nothing but disasters all over the globe, Earthquake in Japan, Mexico Haiti and New York City. Hurricane in Puerto Rico, Flooding in India, Eclipse in USA Flooding in USA in Texas and southern states more crime, children disappearing, The Pope trying to unite all religions he's traveling all over the globe spreading UNITY message (BAD IDEA as all are very different and would cause many to compromise what they should NOT) These are the things Jesus talked about, his RETURN is near! We need to be ready, we are mortal, we have to be right with Christ before we die because when he returns, his reward for believers and unbelievers will be with him...

     
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    Exactly my thoughts


    I have put the same enquiry to learned people on different occasions and their response has always been KARMA. Why do some new borns have to suffer so much as they have done nothing in their present lives! Carry forward from past lives is their response.
    In my own life I have seen Karma give it back to me with interest... Even after 30 years it’s jolted my memory of what I had done right or wrong and I am being paid back. Karma does not discriminate. And where we run out of explanations and which is beyond our thinking, FAITH takes over. I hope I’m making sense to you as I know my thought process but not exactly easy to put it in words.
     
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    Exactly my thoughts


    I have put the same enquiry to learned people on different occasions and their response has always been KARMA. Why do some new borns have to suffer so much as they have done nothing in their present lives! Carry forward from past lives is their response.
    In my own life I have seen Karma give it back to me with interest... Even after 30 years it’s jolted my memory of what I had done right or wrong and I am being paid back. Karma does not discriminate. And where we run out of explanations and which is beyond our thinking, FAITH takes over. I hope I’m making sense to you as I know my thought process but not exactly easy to put it in words.
     
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    :hello:Very absorbing and interesting.
    2. Evil as depicted in OMEN and it’s sequel OMEN 2 comes to mind. When the boy undergoes tonsure, his head reveals the evil associated number 777 - probably a biblical reference and when eventually government adopts him, the nation itself collapses.
    3. Mother ( Pondicherry now Puducherry) of Aurobindo Asaram, in her biography deals with situations that are subject of discussion here. Mother says that every one carry an aura negative or positive around and if a piligrims group resultant aura is negative there travel medium falls into a gorge or engulfed in fire or some other kind of disaster.
    4. IN the Cosmic Lab associates of God perhaps perform many experiments mandated to cause force majeure around the universe to keep five natural elements in balance. This could be at macro level.
    5. One would perhaps like to pose OP’s query to WATSON
    Regards.
    God Bless Us All Always.
     
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    Explaining evil deeds against a small child as karma is really BS .

    It is declining morality of people,greed,power ,hate etc responsible for it
     
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    This is very well understood. The question here is the victim for no fault of his/her is the sufferer. OP's query and all responses too are towards that end. When we cannot find a reason as to why innocent people suffer, naturally the explanation turns towards KARMA.
     
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