Why Does God Allow Bad Things Happen To Good People?

While it seems no one wants to believe in God, no one is denying the devil!! Why is this? We all know in our hearts and souls that there is something out there that is more than us. We are the ant under the magnifying glass, and there is only one person/being who can move that glass. We will suffer and prosper here on earth until we are judged. What we are judged, we will know when we get there.

Kanamefan, I am sorry you think this way. Allow me to argue a point, though. Sometimes God allows bad things to happen to good people because He wants to test your faith, Lyfhacker. Look at poor Job! His family died, he had diseases, and his friends abandoned him. And why? Because God wanted to test Job's faith. And guess what Job got at the end of the trial? A new family, the diseases vanished, and he was surrounded with friends. Lyfhacker, I thank you for asking this question. I was looking for some guidance today, too, and there it is. God bless you. And you too Kanamefan....
                                                                       Isaac

God does exist and every human on this earth will at some time experience bad things.  Bad things happen to all people, but I guarantee God WILL not allow anything to happen to you that you can't get through or overcome.  I have a little saying that I made up myself and it works for me when I am going through a hard time or struggle in life, I pray first about the trouble I am experiencing and then I say "God, if this is a test, I plan to pass with an A+.  I always do too.  God is out there for all of us and when we don't put God in our lives, and I mean first in our lives, not only will bad things happen, terrible things will happen.  We will all die someday.  I sure would rather when that day comes that I have had God in my life!!

My mother had cancer when I was seven. Although I believed in god at the beginning, I didn't afterwards. God just doesn't exist. Why would he allow bad things to happen? He isn't "testing" you or anything, he's just not there. If he was testing people, then why do bad things happen to people who devoutly believe? Why do good people who go to church and believe in god die when they are thirty, painfully and slowly? It's not the devil, it's not that they don't believe, it's that he just doesn't exist.

I myself am NOT a believer in God. I believe in Science.
Bad things happen to good people because no one can escape bad things. Simply, we're all human, bad things happen and you're gotta suck it up and carry on.