Does God allow evil to happen to us? by Bibi Babatunde-Ikotun Hi family, in today's post I may not give full answers but I ask some questions that will require you to think critically about your faith and hopefully go into a journey of deconstructing and reconstructing your beliefs about God. We say God is good all the time. We say God is love. We say God does not change. We say God is light. Do we really believe these things about God? I ask because sometimes we say things like God caused me to have an accident so I can draw closer to him or God allowed my loved one to die so I can be pruned or God allowed calamity to before me so I can find my purpose. Why would a good God cause you pain to bring you closer to Him? Why would the almighty God who doesn't impose the most important thing (salvation) on us cause us to suffer in order to draw us close to him? My keyword is CAUSE ! Let's look at some scriptures that will help us think critically on this topic: James 1:17 (NKJV