Of course good things happen, so do bad things, but there's more to the unseen force behind goodness than this title allows. The following is what I believe: Good things happen because good people make them happen; and good people are good because they decide to be good rather than bad. Maybe they are reacting to hereditary tendencies which program them to think and to act positively, or they have learned by experience that doing bad brings along more bad and to avoid this it is simpler and wiser to do good. Although most likely, good is a combination of all these.
Along about here I get more a feel for the topic which somehow insinuates that good sometimes just happens out of nowhere and no one or no superior force had anything to do with it. Ridiculous. Good is the result of good having being done. Good can even come out of bad. How does this work? It works according to what brought on this bad thing.
An earthquake, as an example, is a bad thing in that it destroys life and is disruptive, but it is a safety valve for the natural forces of nature needing a vent. That asks the question who or what is in control of this force and why was this allowed to happen. The universe was created by an all good force that formed it as it should have been formed and set it in motion. Life in all its forms was likewise created to keep this in perpetual motion and the reactions thereof of either good or bad are transitory. This is the natural world.
Mankind with a thinking mind and a will has been at odds with himself and with his Creator almost form the beginning; and we might say with nature. On the one hand he wants what he wants when he wants it and what he cannot understand he devises answers and reasons his way through. Sometimes he is near the truth and sometimes he is way off course. He is adamant and he fools himself into thinking that since he does not understand the way of God as opposed to the way of man, there must not be a God. The two are different. The world, as some natural philosophers define it, most certainly did not start with God (all good and all knowing) directing it. In other words it just happened. I disagree.
Therefore they conclude, sometimes good just happens. If that be the case then lets hope and pray that their conclusions will allow them to distinguish between the good that's inherent in all of us - from our initial beginning or as our God given right - from a natural happening that somehow manages to have good consequences for a few lucky ones. This is an important distinction. Therefore, good may or not come from a transient action; it all depends on its reactive effect.
It feels good to scratch an itch. And sometimes we must we simply cannot help it, or at least we tell our selves. Yet, what happens if this itch is poison ivy? We spread it. That is a bad thing happening from a good thing. Had we somehow managed to hold off and to find a way of treating it we would have had less trouble. Or better still, had we not gone near it we have avoided the problem. The same way with sin. Sin is doing what is forbidden for man to do. Had we avoided the near occasion of it, we would have suffered less because of it.
Therefore it is easy to see that perpetuation of bad things, killing, telling lies, disobeying, holding grudges, judging others, are not good things and they only perpetuate more of the same. Bad never perpetuates good. Therefore any good that seemingly just happens must have started from good.
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