Nash's Theodicy Approach To The Problem Of Evil

According to Nash, “There seems to be many evils in the world that can be eliminated only by producing situations containing more evil or costing us some greater good…Suppose that many evils result from human free will or from the fact that our universe operates under natural laws or from the fact that humans exist in a setting that fosters soul-making.” (Nash, 186.) Nash explores the possibilities of free will, human beings are more inclined to natural law in which produces more good will for the greater good. According to Nash, “We will have to consider the possibility that God allows certain evils to exist because their elimination would result in the existence of greater evils or the loss of greater goods.”(Nash, 186). Human beings have the capacity to live in a world, being free, are capable of making choices which refrains them …show more content…
Plantinga asserts human free will as one logically possible reason why God permits evil, and it is not necessary for him or anyone else to show that his appeals to free will are true; only that they are possible true. (Nash, 188). The argument presented here is presenting human free will as a measure and defense to understand why a Christian would want to defend why evil exist. However, Nash explains that a defense shows at most that the critic of theism has failed to make his case. A theodicy, on the other hand, attempts to show that his reasons as to why evil exists are true, not just possibly true. (Nash,