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| God killed a lot of people because they did wrong and kept live those who did good. And God prospered those who complained to God (Abraham) and God said the gifts they would get from God if they had faith in God by obeying God's commands or believed these gifts would happen (and kept beleiving). So, I think it's right that God punishes wrong. These days people are more awair. And I think that bad things can happen to good people because we [people] are a mixture of bad and good, and our communities are also - so it could be somebody elses bad ways that we pay the price for. Yet God blesses goodness and faith in God's [only good fair] provision. And our freedom enables this. What do you others think about God's justice? I think it's fair and necessary, and it makes me want to help out!
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Why do bad things happen to good people? I find it difficult to believe that the recent Burmese cyclone was sent to punish all those living in the delta because of the bad ways of their leaders in Rangoon, who seem to have got off lightly. One answer is simply to admit with Job that we cannot know why God permits these things to happen: "Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know" (Job 42.3b).
Another suggestion, which I think was put forward by the theologian John Hicks among others, is that suffering is necessary for human growth. Without pain there would be no courage. Without suffering there would be no compassion. I have a problem with that as it seems to me it doesn't require so much suffering, so I guess I just have to fall back on Job's answer.
Is atheism evil? Since when has it been evil to be sincerely wrong?
Rambling as usual
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why do good things happen to bad people?
Quatenus in hebdomades quattuor et dies duos ire possumus?
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What makes us think that God was responsible or 'allowed' such things?
Oh, Lord, I know not what to pray - if I just recite the alphabet, can I leave it to you to put the letters in the right order?
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| The question has been asked why God allows bad things to happen to good people ? I think we are rather jumping the gun here in assuming (some) people are good. Humanly speaking we may be but scripture is quite clear that no one will get into the Kingdom of God on human terms. Even Jesus did not claim to be good, but God only.We all have a long way to go before we even grasp what is meant by God's goodness.
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| Is atheism evil? I suppose the underlying question is: "Does God regard the inability to believe in Him as sin?" Most people in the conservative evangelical church I go to would say yes. I'm not so sure. I find it hard to bring myself to imagine that God, who loves us all no matter what, would hold it against someone if they genuinely came to the conclusion, based on their experience of life and the available evidence, that He does not exist. What kind of a God would punish such people with suffering? 
It's been my experience that those what concerns theirselves with the next life makes theirselves a powerful nuisance in this one..............
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| Hi CG, that is precisely the point I am addressing (all of us need to address). What exactly do we mean ,God loves us all 'no matter what'.Don't you think this can be seen as a 'loophole' for mankind to make their own decisions as to how we regard God ? This is precisely the opinion Adam & Eve were brought down to believe - never mind what GOD says, what do YOU think ? This is a very subtile and devious way way of elevating man above God. Your next sentence bears that out. Man either believes what GOD says or we start to think and reason along our own lines exactly as satan tempts us to do.Man's available evidence has been built on his own shaky experience rather than on the sure foundation of God's Word. The suffering of all mankind since is not an imposed punishment but simply the result of our wrong decisions (failing to trust God) - and God does not love us for that.
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| ...as Cyril Joad would have said on The Brains' Trust, "It all depen | | | |