Theodicy: The Divine Nature Of Evil

The world around us is infatuated with the evil around us. It doesn’t take much time on the earth to realize it is an everyday thing. The unexplainable nature of evil draws people to be curious. People are demanding a reason for the bad things in the world. Although people experience evil at different levels it is inevitable. Evil produces suffering, pain, discomfort, anger, and confusion. The first question people have when experience something evil is, “Why?” Although there is not a definite answer to why evil happens, humans cannot help, but to attempt to solve it. Often time’s people look to God for the answer to why there is suffering. Scholars in all different disciplines are attempting to explain the divine nature of God among the evil we experience each day. This is a theodicy that attempts to piece together other theodicies to make the most sense possible with the little understanding we have of God and evil in the world. This theodicy is written in the hopes to help people realize their role in creating, preventing, and redeeming evil in the world.
In order to speak about evil, the term “evil” needs to be defined.
Unfortunately, it is a rather difficult word to pin point the meaning. Let’s start with the Webster dictionary definition of evil. It reads, “Morally reprehensible: arising from actual imputed bad character or conduct: causing discomfort or repulsion: causing harm” (Merriam Webster). The definition helps bring clarity, but it still doesn’t answer all the questions evil provokes. Let’s start with who evil effects. People are typically the primary victims of evil, but it can also include nature, society, and animals. Evil is not always equally distributed to people. Some people have to deal with more hardship than other people. Other people have to deal
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