Theology of Suffering Within Illness

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Bart Erman's book, New Testament Scholar at the University of North Carolina, his book entitled God's Problem. He argues that within the Bible, it features two primary explanations of suffering within illness. When we've interviewed patients, we asked them here in Boston whether they felt that they were being punished. And these are more theological explanations for why there's illness and hence suffering.

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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