According to Irenaeus and others, such as JOHN HICK and RICHARD SWINBURNE, who have developed their own Irenaean theodicies, when God made people in his own 'image,' this has to include the concept of free will. Irenaeus drew a distinction between God's image and God's likeliness. He believed that God made us in his own image but we had to grow into his likeliness. In God's imagem we have the freedom of choice and act as moral agents. As IMMANUEL KANT was to argue in the eighteenth centurty, we can only act act morally if we have freedom of choice. So evil is part of a process, not just in our lifetime, but over the whole course of human history.