ABSTRACT
The religious problem of evil is a problem that can arise for religious believers in God. When it does, it addresses them as religious believers. When the religious problem of evil is felt as a problem by a religious believer, either at the abstract level or as a personal concrete problem, seeking a theodicy becomes relevant. The religious problem of evil arises in faith traditions in which there is faith in God and God is believed to be good and all-powerful as the Creator and Master of the universe. Job would know God is good if, in beholding the goodness of God's creation, he beheld God's goodness as a part of God's presence. Even if the free will theodicy accounts for moral evil, it does not account for natural evil. Some criticisms very like those that are brought against the free-will theodicy can be addressed to the Irenaean theodicy.
