ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the problem of evil and suffering different presentations, and its logical and evidential aspects. The problem of evil theodicies that propose some justification or reason for divine action or inaction in the face of evil. The justifications are Augustine's use of original perfection and the Fall, and John Hick's reworking of the Irenaean theodicy which gives some purpose to natural evil in enabling human beings to reach divine likeness. Richard Dawkins pointed out that there is a tremendous amount of suffering in the natural world, and even religious believers find it difficult to defend that the natural world is good in the face of the existence of evil and suffering. Augustine believed literally that human beings are made in the image and likeness of God. In his book Evil and the God of Love, Hick wrote that the role of mythology is to examine some of the great problems of human life, such as evil.
