So, what is one burning question that has troubled human beings since seemingly forever? I think it must be along the lines of “why doesn’t a loving God prevent evil, suffering and tragedy?” This question about God has caused more people to falter, lose faith, hate God, renounce the existence of God, than any other question I can imagine. Attributed to Epicurus, writing and teaching in about 300 BC, the problem was voiced this way- Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then God is not all powerful. Is God able, but not willing? Then God is malicious. Is God both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is God neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”  Epicurus This problem of evil and God’s seeming inability or unwillingness to do anything about it, yet still maintain God’s loving kindness, is known in theology as “theodicy”- or the act of Justifying God. It’s not just atheists who use this issue to argue for the non-existence of God, but even believers have at one time or another wondered the whys and wherefores of this paradox. ‘I feel ceaselessly and increasingly torn, both in my intelligence and in the depth of my heart, by my inability to conceive simultaneously and in truth of the affliction of humans, the perfection…….