Why Bad Things Happen To Good People

Trying to claim these things can never happen to Christians only makes it harder to win outsiders over; truth does not need embellishment. The rain that beats against the house of the righteous also beats against the house of the evil one, but the righteous survive to tell the story; if the person dies, God knows why - it is not everything He reveals, so we must submit to Him always, like Abraham who did not understand why God demanded the death of the son He had given him.

Good people in the Bible suffered evil too - supremely Jesus (Hebrews 4:15; Mark 8:31; Luke 9:58), who was born in a manger and had no house while doing good. His death on the cross was to bring us back to God - not to save us from the evil, pain and suffering introduced when Adam sinned.

His disciples and apostles suffered and mostly died at the hands of evil men. The wind that rose against the ship did not care that the Lord was in it (Mark 4:38-39), yet the righteous will survive and tell the story. [Essay continues in the thread.]