Divine Retribution and Cosmic Evil Forces

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Among all U.S. clergy, 35% agree that God disciplines or punishes using illness. That's one out of five Boston cancer patients. The Apostle Paul wrote more than half the New Testament with a disease that made it very difficult for him to write and he asked God to remove it from his life. He said, 'I'm going to teach you to bear it therefore'

For the religious believer and the atheist alike, the problem of evil and suffering is troubling. If there is a God, why does he allow so much evil? And if there isn’t a God, how can we say that anything is evil?

In this Forum event from 2014 at Harvard Medical School, Oxford mathematician John Lennox addresses one of the most challenging human questions: where is God in suffering?

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