That is a thought process I, and many others, have gone through and come out of. It was once a thought I was 100% sure was correct. Well, every time I've ever thought I had it all figured out, I was proven wrong - that is, until I realized God was real, and the battle of good & evil (man vs. sin) was True. That life is man against sin has never, ever, been proven to be false.
My advice for those who refuse the Holy Spirit of God-in-Christ is to read the New Testament and scrutinize it if you have doubts. Then read the Old Testament and the other non-included Scripture (Apocrypha, Pseudopigrapha).
To understand why bad things happen we must first understand the reality of this Uni-Verse (One-Word):
In the Book of Adam, it is shown that Cain curses God while offering his sacrifice because God does not accept it. God tells Cain that to hate and curse God, is to hate and curse oneself.
Take of it what you will (i.e. that perhaps we are the God - and, in a way, all is God) but ultimately it means that hating and blaming God is fruitless, as in the end He's the one who made you, and so too does He have the power to unmake you. In a rational, calculating mind, one must think: "What do I gain in making myself an enemy of the Omnipotent Godhead? Can I defeat the undefeatable?"
Choice, or action, and water existed in the beginning, just as God existed. Only, the right and wrong had not yet been determined for we particular beings. What is sin but the taking of an action which a being has deemed to be, "not right?" The Godhead has deemed what sin is, and has deemed sin to be, "not right." To refuse that Order is akin to the willful child refusing the parents command to sit in the corner. Perhaps the parents give in and allow the willful child to not sit in the corner, or perhaps the child is forced yet refuses to learn. How will that child turn out when wrong was not punished, or punishment was not taken to? Man can continue like this if he chooses.
Before the Fall of man, the Godhead, who existed along with water and choice, laid out the rules then gave His creation free will to choose (though He knew what they would choose - for absolute liberty, both right and wrong, is alluring). Man in the Garden was not flesh but spiritual, and ate of spiritual fruits - similar to the spiritual tree of life, the spiritual tree of good & evil. When man left ignorance and chose the knowledge of good & evil - which God knew because he determined what it was - man was made deposed of the "Bright Nature," (the spiritual nature) and made into animal flesh. Animals themselves are sinless, lowly, amusing and are not conscious of their urges.
Man after the Fall is now animal flesh, complete with the requirements thereof - lust, hate, anger, thirst, hunger, exhaustion, sleep, dreams, pain, and so on. However, man with the knowledge of good & evil was subject to different laws then the animal. Man with his new animal flesh was still partly spiritual, only being given animal intestines after eating material food, yet man still did not think like an animal because we knew good and evil as determined by the Godhead. This means we have become like God and are capable of more than that which is animal. Man can choose, man can think and plot, and man can refuse to follow animal desires - to refuse to give in to what God has Ordained as sin. How much more is the reward for that creation which, of its free will, chooses its Creator?
Knowing such knowledge of the Universe, we can begin to answer why bad things happen.
Evil is choice, action. Men are evil even beyond the animals, for the animals do not know even the concept of right or wrong. We are men who know what is right and wrong, yet harm and take for granted that which surrounds us - which is given - denying the Ordainment of the Godhead, and denying the Godhead His payment - and God does demand a payment, a service of us. It's True that it's not fair that all is choice and that we have knowledge which is both curse and blessing which was not of our own choice. But still, even our emotion itself is a form taken from the Godhead.
For example, the gaining of joy can be both good & evil, it can be parasitic: We laugh at another's misfortune. We watch the news, politics, and sports hoping for other men to fail, taking amusement and joy when they do (even in the inverse with success). It could be that the bad and parasitism is a Universal constant much like God and water, and is directly linked to the choices of beings. This ultimately proves that complaining of evil or parasitism and laying blame to the untouchable (God) is as fruitless as complaining about water being wet (and there are those who say it is not).
So, perhaps what God gains from us is parasitic. But, we choose for ourselves whether it is God whom is parasitic and feeding off man and all creation; or if it is man whom is the ungrateful parasite to which God has selflessly given up a part of Himself to sustain. Does anything but water exist without God? There can be no choice if there is no being to choose, hence without God there is no choice and thus no parasitism.
With all that knowledge we can answer these questions: Is God the parasite? Is God the enemy?
And the foundational answer is simple: Choose "yes," or choose "no."
We know that evil, parasitism, and even good is something that occurs only in a reality that has choice - for where there is being, there must be choice. The answer is to choose your own answer, living accordingly to the outcome of that choice. God gave us that right, the authority to choose; and the first earthly father doomed us to be like God. Man, though, only has the knowledge of all worldly choices because the world, this portion of the Universe, is our limiting existence no matter how much we fuss.
May the Holy Spirit of God-in-Christ bless you,
Logos Prevailing.
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