Divine Knowledge and Free Will of Man in View of the Problem of Evils

On the basis of incompatibilist views, free acts based on free will are not possible in view of determinism governing the whole order of existence, nor is the existence of evils with justice-centrality. Compatibilist views by contrast, maintain that free will is possible if only it coheres with determinism in whole scale of reality.
Compatibilist responses to the objections to justice-centrality in order of beings and of irrationality of religious beliefs in view of the reality of free-will-based evil events are the theories of free will theodicy and free will defense respectively. The purport of the former is the idea that God has created the best possible world out of beings possessed of free will though He knows from all eternity that some these beings would prefer evil to goodness. The content of the other theory, however, is that belief in God who is absolutely perfect and omnibenevolent is not incompatible with the existence of evil and does not imply any contradiction or essentially impossibility. Such a universe is possible in itself and one can rationally believe in God as its creator.