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I. Introduction Success is an elusive entity. Not only can it be hard to achieve but moreover it can be hard to identify seeing as how for different people success can often mean very different things. On occasion something can even be both successful and not successful at the same time, but in different sense or from different perspectives or world views. Some people who have a perspective which implies or clearly states that humanity should live in a ready-made paradise, John Hick does not succeed in solving the problem of evil. But, within a world view where humanity is not thought of as deserving to live in a ready-made paradise, John Hick does in fact succeed fairly well in solving the problem of evil. II. Explanation John Hick tackles the problem of evil by first exploring the ideas and thoughts that have become deeply rooted within most of the paths of Christianity due to St. Augustine. Hick’s main objection is to the Augustinian belief of a “fearful and calamitous fall of man long ago in the ‘dark backward and abysm of time,’ and of a subsequent participation by all men in the deadly entail of sin” (213). If one were to agree with the doctrine that Adam and Eve separated humanity from God forever b