Question:
65.7—Why do bad things happen to little kids—like abuse, molestation, etc.? If little kids are born innocent, why do these life-altering things happen?
Answer:
65.7—This question has troubled many, and has caused some to blame God, but Abraham asked the question “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis
Why bad things happen to little kids is because of sin and Satan. “By one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Romans 5:12). Therefore children are not born innocent, but are born sinners. “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalm 51:5). We are sinners by nature and by practice. “Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death” (James
Adam sinned when he chose to obey Satan instead of God, and Satan continues to control people with idols—an idol being anything not directed by God and that brings homage to Satan. “The things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils” (1 Corinthians
Satan is behind harm done to children for he is the destroyer. Children were offered to an idol called Molech by those who knew not God long before the days of King Solomon who built “an high place…in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon” (1 Kings 11:7). Many years later, King Josiah finally put a stop to parents making their son or daughter “pass through the fire to Molech” (2 Kings