The Difficult Questions of Pain and Suffering

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The topic we have before us tonight is one of the most difficult questions that any of us face, whether we're Christians or atheists. We're all faced with the questions of pain and of suffering. I suspect many of you will be studying oncology. The patient who's suffering may need a great deal of empathy,. It's not just like algebra; it involves the deepest resonances of humankind.

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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