Why do bad things happen to good people?

“Why does God allow suffering? How can a good God allow evil?"
Dr. Theodore Cabal answers in Honest Answers | Episode 24

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[marbananta]

This world is the only heaven for bad people to enjoy & the only hell for good people to suffer. 😔

[kazukihayate]

I think, I'm afraid to be happy

Because when i do get to happy

Something bad always happens😔

[neonmajora]

It goes back to that old saying, life isn't fair.

[tharavenugopal]

Good peoples born to suffer... Bad peoples born to enjoy their life with good things... Why it is happening like this in this world... If I m doing good, bad thing is waiting behind me... There s no value for good and kind heart, love and emotion...but I never want to give up... It's an achievement to make my life beautiful with good things... Whatever bad things happens to me, I never do bad or hurting to those... So still I m suffering 😊with painfull smile

[bryancoldwell]

All the good people need to come up with a way to find eachother so we can be happy together and away from the evil

[georgethegreat]

I don't think I'm a good person but bad things are happening to me throughout my life that I'm afraid of what's going to be next and afraid of living.

[vlackrock]

I lost my faith 8 years ago, I never wanted it to happen and I fight with all my strength for a long time so that it would not happen ... but the horrible acts that happen on the most innocent, those with the purest soul, the children, has broken my soul into pieces. I'm crying as I write this comment because I would like to be able to return to believe in a benevolent god and that everything will be fine but I know I will never be hable even if i try.
I can't understand so many things...


(Sorry for my english and if i offend someone)
I wish all of you the best.

[ushamurugesh]

Truth is life is unfair.
I haven't seen a truth coming into light

[joelmccoy]

I'm here trying to make sense of my 22 year old brother passing away. Wonderful healthy young man. Didn't deserve death. My wife and I are devout Christians and we're worried that this event will cause my surviving siblings to resent God even more.

[mexicanoglover]

Exactly 1 year ago I was diagnosed with IBS made my life so hard. I developed anxiety because people would make fun of me. I started getting depressed and I looked like I was slowly dying. No one likes me I was the loner I would always have stomach issues so I would be in the restroom all the time. Life was horrible I always asked why me. I don’t do nothing to people but all they do is mess with me. I believe God did this to me to make me stronger. I came closer to him and my IBS (which has no cure) is not bad anymore I use to be in the restroom 10 times a day now I’m in there 1-2 times a day. No anxiety and no depression. My life has been hard rn but I’m grateful its not like that anymore

[disciplesofjesuschrist]

I do recall that many years ago there was a good noble and kind man who tried to persuade many of his generation, to Love one another and he lived what he spoke. Although being a compassionate and loving person, they nailed him to a tree and before he died he said that many others with similar attributes would like suffer similar sorrows. But He showed us how we can escape the sorrows and leave them all behind and live with Him one day, the greatest of all gifts

[aiysaasharma]

I'm seriously heart broken now.. Cnt explain my pain

[magilla]

I've been an addict for the last 10 years. The last three years I've been out of control and hanging on by the skin of my teeth. Things always work out though and God lets me know that he's here everyday. But it still pisses me off why is there so much suffering why can't the world just be better. Why do I get away with so many things and experience so many miracles and others don't even believe in God. Why do some die and I live. I have been blessed beyond belief and I don't know why and I'm just waiting for God to say I'm done with you cuz I keep up. I have faith things will be alright though. Maybe one day I'll snap out of it

[PBs-nlir]

Good people go in depression easily due to their soft heart...in this stage body leaves toxic hormons and genarelly thy get cronic disease like cancer.

[dingdingngo]

Bad people should die and suffer
Too many bad people in the world
God should punish them but he didn't.
Good people suffer and die first. It's really unfair

[paperchain]

I just heard that two girls list their mum and dad in car crash when a criminal on drugs only suffered a scratch. What is that? I feel like giving up.

[justinw]

I'm a bad person and bad things happen to me daily. I refuse to be happy because people keep testing me.

[poojasitaula]

I had strong faith in god but now i feel cheated by god because bad people always get good and good people doesnot even get justice

[davidknott]

I know that I am no saint. I have made bad mistakes, like everybody else, yet grew up showing respect and love. yet I was treated like dirt. Now that I have Anxiety, depression and a Personality disorder, I feel like a prisoner inside my own mind. And these horrible parasites in the world who show nothing but evil, seem to escape God's wrath and Injustice!!

[justasmalltowngirl]

I cannot even begin to describe all the things I've been through in my 36 years. It literally is like something out of a movie or a book, most people wouldn't believe.
To list just one, was losing my dad when I was 19, he was shot on the night of his 41st birthday, alone in his home. That has been one of the things I've struggled with the most. Not only the why of it happening, but knowing I am supposed to forgive the ones responsible. And as I said, that's only one thing, ...my life has been one thing after the next, .. I used to say things like if not for bad luck, I'd have none. I've learned to stop saying negative things like that.
Life is messy, and it certainly is not fair.