Hick_-_Free_WIll

Hick - Free WIll An attempt to make the existence of an omnipotent and benevolent God coincide along with the existence of evil is known as a Theodicy. Theodicy according to our text means the justification of God’s goodness in the face of the fact of evil. Theodicy first divides the evil in the world into Moral evil and Non-Moral evil. Moral Evil is the evil that human being cause - either to themselves or to each other. Non-Moral Evil is the evil that is not caused by human activity - natural disasters, etc. The existence of Moral evil is explained by claiming, as many theodicies do, that God allows the existence of Moral evil because human beings have free wills. The existence of a free will is necessary for the proper worship of God, and to avoid the pitfalls of predestination. If we wanted the evil to stop, it is up to us to make it happen. Hick argues that there is a way that God can be omnipotent and benevolent, and still have evil exist in the world. It is because humans have free will. If we are to truly have free will, then we have to be allowed to choose evil. He evil, free, world, god, hick, existence, moral, human, exist, universe, theodicy, stop, place, omnipotent, make, good, first, even, choose, best, allows, whole, ways, way, wanted, truly, soul, seems, really, possible, one, non-moral, must, justified, infinitely