The Problem of Suffering and Evil

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Many of my atheist friends feel that they've solved the problem of suffering and evil. But please don't talk to me about a personal God who cares for us, he says. "My experience of life has been so negative and so horrible that I cannot possibly bring myself to believe in such a God"

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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