Theodicy
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
2:50 PM
Greek word concerning the existence of a good, loving, almighty God and also the presence of evil.
Theos=God 
Dike=justice
"Feinberg, J. S. "Theodicy." In Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, by Walter A. Elwell. Baker Publishing Group, 2017. Accessed October 12, 2023." [link].
That an all-powerful and all-good God would allow evil is called the “problem of evil.”
Philosopher David Hume (1711-1776): “Is He willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then He is impotent. Is He able, but not willing? Then He is malevolent. Is He both able and willing? Whence then is evil?”

Augustine (354-430), Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), and Alvin Plantinga (b. 1931) have argued that it is more valuable for creatures (e.g. angels and humans) to have free will, and therefore the ability to abuse that will by choosing evil, than for God to create automatons that cannot make real moral choices.