For Those With Ears to Hear

The question isn’t new,
“If God is good, why do bad things happen?”

We ask it when a child gets cancer.
When a drunk driver takes a life.
When the headlines bleed with violence, corruption, and disaster.

But here’s the truth that wrecks our excuses,

“Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned…”
— Romans 5:12

The problem isn’t just around us.
It’s in us.

Bad things don’t just happen to the world.
They happen because of us.

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”
— Jeremiah 17:9

When Adam sinned, he cracked the entire created order.
And we’ve been shattering it further ever since.

Murder, greed, abuse, betrayal, theft, lies, war, destruction.
These aren’t cosmic glitches.
They’re human fingerprints on a broken planet.

This isn’t about a cruel God.
It’s about a rebellious race.

“None is righteous, no, not one…”
— Romans 3:10

We don’t ask, “Why do good things happen to bad people?”
Because deep down, we think we’re the good guys.
But Scripture doesn’t let us off the hook.
We’re not innocent victims.
We’re rebels living in a world we helped wreck.

Even creation itself groans under the weight of our sin (Romans 8:22).
The flood didn’t come from nature, it came from judgment (Genesis 6).
And death? That came with sin, not before it.

God didn’t create evil.
We unleashed it.
And every evil act since Eden is a chain reaction of that same fall.

So if you’re looking for the root of all this suffering, start here.
The heart of the problem is the problem of the heart.

And the only cure isn’t escape.
It’s redemption.