"I see a mixed picture, and I think a perfectly fair picture," he says. "People get themselves possibly in a spiritual tangle and God uses some illness to bring them to their sense" He adds: 'We've watched people who've born disease in a way which would shame us' And those lessons can be absolutely and vitally important.
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?