The problem of suffering is uniquely important because it is a universal phenomenon. Almost everyone wonders why bad things happen to good people; some people even wonder why bad things happen at all. However, bad things do not prove that God does not exist: there are many proofs and apparent proofs of God's existence. And even if the objections raised against such proofs are successful, they refute only the arguments as invalid and inconclusive; they do not disprove the existence of God.
The fact that people everywhere do not automatically accept a world full of suffering means that we are in touch with a standard of goodness. How did that standard come into existence? Can evolution take credit for it?
Christianity hints that the meaning of the problem of suffering can be found in the words that emanated about 2,000 years ago from the mouth of that God-man, Christ, while he was suffering shockingly while nailed to a cross: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
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