when bad things happen to good people - harold s. kushner

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[...]... been a well-known folk story, a kind of morality fable told to reinforce people s religious sentiments, about a pious man named Job Job was so good, so perfect, that you realize at once that you are not reading about a real-life person This is a “once-upon-a-time” story about a good man who suffered One day, the story goes, Satan appears before God to tell Him about all the sinful things people were... goodness and in Job’s goodness, and is prepared to give up his belief in proposition (A): that God is all-powerful Bad things do happen to good people in this world, but it is not God who wills it God would like people to get what they deserve in life, but He cannot always arrange it Forced to choose between a good God who is not totally powerful, or a powerful God who is not totally good, the author of... looking forward to playing tennis—have to tell him that what had happened to him was good and was in his best interests? The problem with a line of reasoning like this one is that it isn’t really meant to help the sufferer or to explain his suffering It is meant primarily to defend God, to use words and ideas to transform bad into good and pain into privilege Such answers are thought up by people who believe... that bad people do, let us ask why any people have to suffer at all Why do people have to get sick? Why do they have to feel pain? Why do people die? If God was designing a world for our maximum benefit, why could He not create unchanging laws of nature which would not do harm to any of us, good or bad? Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include tooth... controls what happens to us, and on the basis of that belief adjust and interpret the facts to fit their assumption It may be true that surgeons stick knives into people to help them, but not everyone who sticks a knife into somebody else is a surgeon It may be true that sometimes we have to do painful things to people we love for their benefit, but not every painful thing that happens to us is beneficial... bad things happen to us He can know that we are good and honest people who deserve better Our misfortunes are none of His doing, and so we can turn to Him for help Our question will not be Job’s question “God, why are You doing this to me?” but rather “God, see what is happening to me Can You help me?” We will turn to God, not to be judged or forgiven, not to be rewarded or punished, but to be strengthened... pontoon bridge so the people could cross.” The mother was shocked “Is that the way they taught you the story?” “Well, no,” the boy admitted, “but if I told it to you the way they told it to us, you’d never believe it.” Centuries ago, people found reassuring proof of God in stories of miracles They would tell of how God divided the sea to let the Israelites cross on dry land They would recount stories... this to help the patient, not to torment him So too, it is suggested, God does painful things to us as His way of helping us Consider the case of Ron, a young pharmacist who ran a drugstore with an older partner When Ron bought into the business, his older colleague told him that the store had recently been the target of a series of holdups by young drug addicts looking for drugs and cash One day, when. .. seriously When we have met Job, when we have been Job, we cannot believe in that sort of God any longer without giving up our own right to feel angry, to feel that we have been treated badly by life From that perspective, there ought to be a sense of relief in coming to the conclusion that God is not doing this to us If God is a God of justice and not of power, then He can still be on our side when bad things. .. trying to teach you a lesson Maybe He is trying to tell you that He doesn’t want you to be rich He doesn’t want you to be a successful businesswoman, caught up in profit-and-loss statements all day long and annual trips to the Far East to buy things He wants you to put your energies into something else, and this was His way of getting His message across to you.” A contemporary teacher has used this image: . examination at school and found to be just nearsighted enough to require glasses. No one was terribly surprised at the news. His parents both wear glasses, as does his older sister. But for some reason,. trips to the Far East to buy things. He wants you to put your energies into something else, and this was His way of getting His message across to you.” A contemporary teacher has used this image:. care what happens to us? Many of the answers were sensitive and imaginative, but none was totally satisfying. Some led us to blame ourselves in order to spare God s reputation. Others asked us to deny