Good Theodicy Essay

To order to answer the question ‘How can a God so all knowing and all powerful could allow suffering upon innocent people?” we must first analyze the problem of evil which is caused by humans and their freedom of choice with a past and future justification (Gottlieb). The Jewish believed they solved the problem of evil question by listing twelve explanations for suffering (Gottlieb). In past justification there is five explanations, the first one is someone can be nice to the outside world but evil behind closed doors (Gottlieb). For example a Jewish husband abuses his wife in private but he is friendly and nice to all his neighbors which is a perfect illustration because if something happens to cause the man to suffer it was as a result of his evil behavior towards his wife (Gottlieb). The second explanation is judgement because the suffer failed to help humanity and fulfil his human
We all ready seen through the two sources from above that freedom of choice is what causes evil and suffering among innocent people. To answer the question a good theodicy is something that must have strong evidence and does a balance between good and evil. Something that defends God being good and not evil. C.S. Lewis in “The Problem of Evil” talks about theodicy, defends God's goodness against evil in the world by talking about how works have multiple meanings (Lewis 16). Lewis talked about how theodicy would be good if only the suffering was divided evenly between everyone (Lewis 96). Then Lewis explains that his theodicy is about the happiness and joy in the world but no security because then we can actually look forward to a second coming of Jesus (Lewis 116). Lewis’s theodicy is a good example of a good theodicy because it defending that God has no part in evil which is