key words

• Omnipotent

  All-powerful
• Omniscient

  al-knowing
• Omnibenevolent

  all-good and all-loving
• Inconsistent triad

  the omnibenevolence and omnipotence of God cannot exist with evil
• Theodicy

  an attempt to justify God in the face of evil and suffering
• Natural evil

  Evil and suffering caused by non-human agencies
• Moral evil

  the evil done and the suffering caused by the deliberate misuse of human free will
• Privatio boni

  absence of goodness (privation of good)
• Free will

  the ability to make independent choices between real opotions
• Epistemic distance 


  a distance in knowledge and understanding