The Importance of Belief in God

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I'm ashamed that the name of Christ has ever been associated with the AK-47. Jesus stood in our world and said my kingdom is not of this world, otherwise my servants would be fighting. So that people who take up guns or bombs to defend Christianity are denying him and disobeying him. And that's part of the problem that as a Christian have to face, that accusation. I turn here ashamed of it.

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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