Oxford professor John Lennox explores the hardest question Christians have to face about their faith - the problem of suffering. | SMU, 2016 | View full forum here:
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Timestamps:
00:00 The question of suffering and God
00:40 Two kinds of suffering & two perspectives
02:00 The atheist route of dealing with suffering
03:31 Can God be good and all-powerful?
05:00 Reframing the question
05:40 The claims of Christianity
08:20 Christianity is testable