“If God Is So Good, Then Why Does He Allow Bad Things To Happen?

A message to Believers…

People love to throw around the question, “If God is so good, then why does He allow bad things to happen?” It’s the skeptic’s favorite soundbite, used like some kind of intellectual mic drop. But it’s not deep. It’s not profound. It’s not even original. It’s lazy.

Let’s break this down with some truth that people don’t want to hear. First off, we live in a universe where anything that can happen will happen. That’s not just a philosophical notion—it’s reality. If a tragedy is possible, if corruption is possible, if sickness is possible, then yes, at some point, somewhere, it’s going to happen. This isn’t a flaw in creation—it’s the cost of a world that operates on consistent, natural laws. Gravity doesn’t turn off because you’re a nice person. Biology doesn’t rewrite itself because you prayed last night. A world where real choice and real consequence exist means randomness and risk are part of the package.

Second, let’s talk about the real villain in most of our suffering: man. Humanity. Us. We like to think we’re good at heart, but we’re not. We’re selfish by default. No one had to teach a child how to lie—it just comes naturally. But we do have to teach honesty. We have to teach integrity. We have to instill values, because they don’t come standard in the human condition. Free will is a gift, yes, but it’s also a loaded weapon—and man has spent millennia pulling the trigger on himself and blaming God for the bullet wounds.

Humans choose shortcuts. We pick convenience over character. We build on sand and expect stone. Take a look at the world we’ve built—food that barely qualifies as food, entire economies built on greed, shortcuts in construction, in science, in health. You ever hear that the space shuttle was made from millions of parts, each built by the lowest bidder? That’s humanity in a nutshell. Then when something collapses—physically, socially, morally—we look up and ask, “God, why did You let this happen?” As if we didn’t engineer our own destruction one cheap decision at a time.

Let’s get even more real. Cancer? Obesity? Heart disease? These aren’t divine punishments. They’re the result of people filling themselves with processed junk, never exercising, living under stress, sleeping four hours a night, and calling it “normal life.” We poison our environment, then cry foul when it poisons us back. We create the conditions for sickness, then blame the Creator for not stepping in like a cosmic janitor to clean up the mess we’re still making.

Now, are there things that happen outside of human control? Of course. That’s the 1%. But here’s the uncomfortable truth most people choke on: 99% of our suffering comes from our own resistance—resistance to wisdom, to truth, to responsibility. And when we resist those things, we create pain. The longer we resist, the more we suffer. Not because God is cruel, but because truth has consequences whether you like it or not.

And no, God doesn’t micromanage your every decision like a helicopter parent. He operates within the boundaries of free will. If you want love, you have to have freedom. But with freedom comes consequence. He gave us that dignity, and we’ve used it to burn the house down and then blame the architect.

I’ve blamed God before too. I’ve looked up and shouted my accusations. But even a fool eventually realizes that God wasn’t the one pulling the strings—we were. And we’ve tangled ourselves into a knot of our own making. At some point, you have to stop pointing fingers at heaven and start looking at your own hands. They’re dirtier than you think.

So no, the question isn’t, “Why does God let bad things happen?” The real question is, “Why does man keep making them happen and then pretending it’s someone else’s fault?” Until we face that, we’re not victims—we’re volunteers….