The Problem With Suffering

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

The Christian has a massive problem with it as Epicurus and Hume put it. But let's just say that one thinks that the atheists obviously have a massive solution we can all go home because it doesn't work that way. Indeed, I don't like even talking about solution. I prefer to talk of a window into a way of dealing with it and living with it. And we shall come to that way eventually.

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?

Sign up for our newsletter here.
Visit veritas.org to learn more about the mission of the Veritas Forum and find more resources to explore the ideas that shape our lives