In recent decades, philosophers and theologians have become increasingly aware of the extent animal pain suffering, both past present, challenge this poses to God’s goodness justice. As a result, great deal effort has been devoted discussion development theodicies, that is, theodicies aim offer morally sufficient reasons for suffering are in fact reasons. paper, I ask whether there is need go e...

the present study seeks to explain and analyse some of the fundamentals of hick’s discussion of the problem of evil or theodicy. in this study, while analysing john hick’s solution to the problem of the existence of evil in the world, we will see that he begins his exposition of the discussion of theodicy by interpreting the notion of primordial fall (and sin) as a myth and opines that moral ev...