The Problem of Pain

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"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains," C.S. Lewis says. "It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world," he adds of suffering. The author asks: How can illness be claimed to encourage a person to seek God? And so how do we begin to come to terms with it? Let's start at the other end."

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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