Moreover, knowing how much Christ suffered while he was sinless shows us that a life of trust and obedience, a life of striving to please God, does not exempt us or release us from a life of pain and suffering. Why do bad things happen to good people? The Bible doesn’t give us an airtight answer to this. Instead, it gives us a perfect person to show us that no life, not even the best one, is exempt from pain and suffering.