There are two irrevocable and yet seemingly contradictory truths that God is Omni benevolent, omnipotent and omniscient and yet evil has pervaded, permeated and reigning supreme in the world. Theodicy is an attempt to integrate and resolve this antinomy. The erudite philosopher and skeptic David candidly captures this dilemma of a benevolent God and the prevalence of evil. The cryptically remarks that, “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.” 

It goes without say that, “In varying degree, one problem (of evil) is difficult for all type of strong theism.” It is imperative to examine the nature of evil and its correlation to the concept of God. There are two kinds of evil which are the natural and moral evils. The natural evil does not involve human willing and acting, but is merely an aspect of nature which seems to be working against man’s welfare. They are the destructive forces nature: hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, volcanic eruptions and the like.” The moral evil may be, “traced to the choice and action of free moral agents. There we find war, crime, cruelty, class struggles, discrimination, slavery and injustices too numerable to mention.”