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Very well put, Eloquent too!

This is indeed the bane of spiritual growth for some people. This is where they start to get angry with God because, yes there are times when we reap what we have not sown.

It’s not that God gave us cancer. Cancer happens to us because of many, many factors. God did not give cancer to anyone. I get a lot of people who have come to me in the past and blamed God for taking their wife, husband, or the hardest, Child.

The hardest thing to do is to try to convince a grieving parent that God had nothing to with it. Then I get asked why didn’t God help…

It’s hard because there is no answer that is suffice at this point. There is no verse in the bible that is going to convince a grieving mother or father to anything.

A lot of people believe that God tests us. I do not agree. I think Life and the world tests us and God is the cheat sheet. I think that there are some things we will never understand about how God works, or why things happen the way they do, but in the end it works out regardless of the outcome.

Our faith is tested by circumstance, and ourselves. It’s easier to blame god than to seek God. I think anger is natural and a wavering of faith is too.

Any advice I can give has always been show God’s love through example. There isn’t much one can say to anyone in that situation. It comes down to showing God rather than talking God.

I love this question because this is sooo common, and yet so difficult to address because it deeply depends on the person to whom this circumstance is happening to.

I may not have answered your question to the degree I wanted to but I hope you may come away with some extra wisdom there.

Many Blessings.

Where does it say--or how is it that you believe that if you are a "wonderful godly person" and are a "believer", that you some how have special protection against having bad things happen to you?

What you are quoting is a christian version of "the law of cause and effect."

One answer might be that they are 'reaping' what they have 'sown' in another lifetime.

How is it that you believe that you or anyone else has the ability or even the right to judge what others do and don't deserve?

Getting cancer has nothing to do with being "wonderful godly people', but is a disease of 'suppression' (of emotions).

Mental illness can be caused by a variety of factors.

You are correct about 'trials'--or 'lessons', but again, the causes of these 'lessons' may have originating sources outside this life time.

HInt: Focus on discovering 'patterns' in your own life; or other 'repeating lessons' and you may begin to discover what 'lesson' you are supposed to be learning.

In simple terms, show them compassion like Christ did toward the people he healed. We may not have the power to heal anyone, but our compassion can go a long way toward helping someone through a difficult time.

Christ also taught in the parable of the good samaritan that the greatest commandment is to love the Lord God with all our heart, might, mind and strength. The second greatest commandment is like unto it, love they neighbor as thyself. Our neighbor is considered any person we may meet that is in need of help.

'You reap what you sow' applies to how you act.

Try smiling at everyone you meet and force yourself to be upbeat and happy all day, one day, no matter what happens. You will find that people will rise to your mood as you interact with them.

If you treat people badly or if you are always selfish, people will treat you accordingly.

It is Truth....you will reap what you sow.

still we are to know that things do not happen because God does not love us

its not a matter of reaping what is sown.. but a matter of being in the world

for these people... the only safe haven is God and his love

may friends and loved ones comfort and support in ways that they can

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All explained by karma and reincarnation. You reap what you sow, but not within one lifetime. The only explanation for why "bad things happen to good people" and why "innocent" children/babies suffer.

Minister to their needs. Do they need a kind word? Give it to them. Do they need help with something? Help them. Do they need someone to just listen and not try to fix it? Then listen. The list is endless.

The fact of the matter is we live in a sin affected world and death and disease is a result of that sin...but try to encourage people to walk the walk and keep the faith and they will be blessed in heaven

I don't believe Hell exists, I know it exists. I was salted / baptized with fire meaning when I slept at night the spiritually damned paid me a visit. I will try to explain what happened, believe me if you want to. Jesus told a parable, it went something like this. The wheat was gathered and placed into his barns, while the weeds were gathered and placed into bundles to be burned at the end of the age. Revelation talks about a place called the Sea of life possibly a place were souls rest in a state of slumber. I don't know for sure. What I do know is this. When I slept at night I was paid visits on separate occasions by different entities. These were souls of men, Demons, devils, fallen angels, unholy spirits, and then some. Sound crazy Hugh, oh well. Then I have a good imagination don't I. Anyway I will try to explain this parable. These entities" I will call them" some had been damned, they came from different places, Hell, Hades, Death, Place of burning sulfur, the abyss. These entities were like coals pulled from a fire, meaning they radiated with the pains from the dungeons were they had been locked up. Fallen angels and demons came out of the Abyss. This could also be the bottomless pit. Hell is Horror and pain; obviously people have hade the same experience that I did because fire was the only description which could describe the degree of pain. This part is really wild. One soul that had paid me a visit in the middle of the night, stood at the foot of my bed. When I was awaked by his presence I leapt out of bed and lunged at him sticking him in the face with my fist, it had no affect. It passed right threw his face. It all happened very quickly and that was my reaction. He stood there with no affect from my blow. He was Horrid with pain that he had reaped and he was mad and evil. What ever he did hear while on earth in his body was bad to a degree I wouldn't even want to know. I was in a state of shock but had enough since to command him to leave in the name of Jesus Christ. This all happened extremely fast. This is what I felt. He had reaped what he sewed meaning all the pains this man had caused in life had been spiritually gathered and sewn in his soul. He must have caused some people on earth a large degree of pain. The pains were literally reaped up and then sewn into his soul. He had been judged. The pain was so bad that it made me wreath in anguish. This soul of a man radiated with the pains of Hell, and he was yellow in color from the sulfur that was in his soul from were he had been locked up. He was reluctant to leave but after he knew I felt the pains that radiated from him he started to leave. Before he left the room he turned and communicated with me telling me to stop preaching to people. That was all he said. But he spoke with no verbal words. He spoke threw his mind with some sort of telepathy. This is what came out of my mouth, I screamed at him. My Father told me to love him and my neighbor and that’s what I'll do! Anyway he left, but I will never forget that soul of a man and I hope I never experience it or anything like it again. People would say I'm crazy if I told them and a lot wouldn't even want to know. So to answer your question Hell exists and then some. Believe what you want, time will tell. Revelation describes more about these places and what happens to them at the end of the age. God describes times as ages in the Bible. Death and Hades get thrown into the Lake of fire magnifying its pain. I wouldn't want to piss God off that’s for sure. Anyway I see his personality in his creation and I know there is hope. Look at his son Jesus Christ his great command is that we love. Some people on this forum say that Christians murder and killed thought history. Christ strictly forbids this, I don't know were they get there crap. I have seen a lot more than this, but why I don't know yet. Time will tell. Was this answer long enough for u?

It rains on the just and the unjust