"I believe firmly that if you could see what God has done with people like God ultimately, your questions would stop," he says. "The God that suffered on the cross rose from the dead, and that opens up a whole world of possibility." He adds: "It shows me at the very least that God has not remained distant from the problem of human suffering but has himself become part 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?