[BlackAdderess]

The point about getting right with God is to change and become a new creature.

One thing I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?

[elcid1970]

“I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?”

Sounds like a belief in karma. Hearing that a bad person has come to grief, some observe that `karma’s a b!tch’.

Not unlike Schadenfreude.

[bad company]

One thing I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?

That's a people that don't read the bible thing. Having traveled from Evangelical protestant to Eastern Orthodox, I have found it lurking everywhere.

[PieterCasparzen]

One thing I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?

I suggest studying the Book of Job for answers on that topic. Job is far richer in meaning than it may appear on the surface. The Matthew Henry Bible Commentary is a good place to start for studying it.

[rwa265]

One thing I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?

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I believe that is an Old Testament thing.

[metmom]

One thing I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?

I find that thinking across the board.

I don't think it's exclusive to any one denomination over another.

[RFEngineer]

“Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?”

I think that’s a buhddist thing called “karma”.