Q. Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?
Today’s question is Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?
This is something that many people struggle with and if you can’t get your head around it now that’s fine - some things become clearer over time and when we get to Heaven we will understand everything.
I found this verse today that I think is helpful to keep in mind when learning about things that we struggle to understand:
1 Corinthians 13:12:
“Now all we can see of God
is like a cloudy picture
in a mirror.
Later we will see him
face to face.
We don’t know everything,
but then we will,
just as God completely
understands us.”
We will understand why God does things the way he does as we dig deeper and deeper into our learning about Him and as we read and learn more and more about what he has already done here on earth.
Huge questions that many people cannot understand and then often stop trusting in God
Some people think:
God can’t be a caring God to let someone I love go through cancer
God can’t be a caring God to stop people from going to Heaven when they die
God can’t be a loving God to allow famines and starvation on the earth
Why do bad things happen? Sin.
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. God planned earth to be full of all things good.
In the first episode titled GREEN I talk about how perfect God’s creation was - there was nothing wrong with it at all - it was GOOD!
What happened?
Adam and Eve ate the fruit and that was the beginning of sin. Every single person got sin because they were born from someone sinful - just like you get your genes from your parents, you get sin from your parents. This sin is called “original sin.”
Q. Why does God Let Bad Things Happen?
This question leads to many other questions:
Why Did he allow sin to enter the world?
Why did God put the tree in the garden in the first place?
Why was the snake/Satan allowed to enter into the garden?
It was God’s way of giving Adam and Eve a choice to obey him or not.
God doesn’t want to control us - he wants us to be able to choose whether we obey Him or not, because loving him would not be real if he forced us to do it. Harry Potter Fans may remember Tom Riddle’s mum forcing a man to love her. It isn’t real if it’s forced.
But we know now, that God will not let anyone into Heaven. If somebody keeps saying in their lives that Jesus is not real, that he is made up or is just a regular man that someone made stories up about, they will not be allowed to enter into eternal life. This is because they have not had their sins removed from them through having faith in Jesus.
Everyone has a chance but some people waste their chance.
Discussion Questions:
Do you like playing imaginative games alone or do you prefer to spend time with other people who have their own opinions and thoughts?
Why do you think God doesn’t want to control you?
How do you feel about being able to have choices in life rather than being controlled?
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