Christ in application to His experience on the cross: “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?” (cf. Matt. 27:46). The universality of suffering and God’s seeming indifference to it prompts many to ask why He allows bad things to happen to good people. But that question misses the point. No one is truly good, because “there is no man who does not sin” (1 Kings 8:46); “there is no one who does good” (Ps. 14:1); in God’s “sight no man living is righteous” (Ps. 143:2); no one can say, “I have cleansed