The Power of Choice

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"God isn't a theory or a person. We're not talking about robotics," he says. "We've got a certain freedom of will that creator has endowed us with it if we believe in a creator" He adds: 'If you create a world like that, then choice to be real has to go in two directions'

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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