One of the books that came out in the late 80s, very popular book was a bestseller by Rabbi Harold Kushner.

And the title of the book was, When Bad Things Happened to Good People.

You know, the tragedy of this erroneous, heretical book,

is that from that time on, it has been preached from thousands of puppets in churches.

That is really the sad part.

Here's what the rabbi said.

Either God is all powerful, but not all good, or if God is all good, then he is not all

powerful.

And Kushner concluded that God is all loving, but not all powerful.

Kushner said, God was doing the best he could,

and God is growing and learning and evolving, just like we are.

God hasn't figured things out yet. Now, it doesn't say whether he'll ever figure them

out, but he said he hasn't got them figured out yet. As a matter of fact, his final conclusion was

that we need to pray for God. Now, the first time I heard this, I said, really? If we need to pray for God,

to whom shall we pray? This pure blasphemy of the highest order is both blasphemy in Judaism

or Christianity. Both. For the Old Testament and the New

Testament again and again and again tells us that God is all powerful, that God is all good,

that God is almighty, all at the same time.

The Old Testament and New Testament tells us that none of us are good.

And so when you ask the question, how can bad things happen to good people?

Who are the good people?

If you look in the Old Testament, Isaiah says, without God, all of our good works is like a filthy rag in his sight.

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