Oh oh. You used the "f" word.
Don't worry: the Bible is clear. That feeling of unfairness you have about the world will completely dissappear on Judgment Day, I promise.
Nothing says life is going to be fair, in the Bible or anywhere else. The only thing the Bible promise you is an afterlife.
God LITERALLY tortured Job to win a bet, including killing his family. He chose the Jews as his favored people (yet for some reason Christians think he unchose them at some point), and LITERALLY ordered them to genocide non-Jewish cities that they attacked.
There is nothing about the Bible that claims life is fair. Though I would also point out that there is nothing about life that said life is fair.
According to the Bible:
- No, life is not fair
The Bible does not teach us WHY.
This life is hardly fair: Strive for an afterlife which IS fair.
By association, and beating it into submission until it
says what you want it to, the Bible will gladly proclaim
anything that is required of it, past, present, and future.
The filth, greed, lusts, life, and poverty of two thousand
years ago can convey ANY answers that you want.
The Bible is its own Magic 8-Ball.
Ask a question, shake it, and find out what "god" says!
The Bible says that GOD is perfectly 'fair' ('just' and 'good' as defined by His 'impartiality'). That is also what the Bible means when it says that GOD is 'One.' He cannot be 'divided' in His loyalties. He shows no favoritism, nor does He display unfairness against anyone, (His definition of 'corruption'). This is actually the scientific basis of His 'immortality' and 'incorruptibility.' Our failure to live up to this equal treatment is why we 'fall short' physically also, resulting in our mortality and decaying nature.
Whether we ever choose to recognize it or not, we get treated EXACTLY the same by GOD as anyone else would in our circumstances. We may not be aware of how unfairly we are treating others since human society has become quite good at obscuring it from us. We can be the 'nicest' person on earth while willingly paying taxes regularly into a system that destroys children in other lands to save us 50 cents on a carton of milk. Our ignorance does mitigate the degree of our guilt, but the 'price' returns upon us in kind based on our standard of judgment, (as Jesus explains in Matthew 7:1-2), and this can make it appear that GOD is unfair to 'good' people.
Conversely, we slander GOD for seemingly 'tolerating' evil people, (so GOD gets slandered on both ends). This is also His impartiality at work, since those supposedly 'bad' people often do many good things for others which get ignored and taken for granted because of the 'downsides' and shortfalls in our system, (being created by our partiality and favoritism). They employ and care for many people, taking responsibility legally for them as well, for example.
This two-fold delusion has led us to the ultimate slander of GOD, which is to claim He doesn't exist at all. Ironically, it is His perfect 'fairness' that is used to 'prove' it, as humans point to GOD's impartiality as an 'indifference' to human affairs, which they then conclude demonstrates that GOD is either unjust or nonexistent. 'Nonexistent' is easier to bear.
The reality is, we can experience the 'fairness' of GOD, (and life itself), by obeying Him and treating all others with inspired impartiality. That means being just as 'mean' or just as 'nice' to others as their current mentality and treatment of others deserves, so that they can 'repent' and learn. Only GOD's direct inspiration can allow us to do this, so the human 'default' is to take the easy way out and just slander GOD instead.
Life is not fair because of sin. It will be imperfect. If life was fair, we are sinners. We deserve to be in hell. Christ can save a person from hell, if they want truth.
I'm so confused....do you really need the bible to tell you what is obvious to most humans from their earliest memories??
Job basically said that life is short and full of trouble. Jesus called this world which is currently under the dominion of the fallen angels as... the present evil world. The world is not supposed to be Good without Good in it, and the Spirit of God is Good. The Bible says to not forget all His benefits. The benefits of having God in our lives is so much, and truly this world has lost so much, as trading God away for anything is a great loss, not a gain. Fortunately for us, this is not the end-all be-all, but only a drop in the ocean of all eternity. The more of God we have in our lives, the better off our lives will become. We were not only created by God but for Him, and we gain what our souls need in Him.