The crux of the problem of evil is tenuous. It remarks on the omnipotence and omnicsience of God. If all-wise, He could create conditions to an ideal world. If all-powerful, He could put an end of evil. The existence of evil proves an unreality to the qualities of omniscience and omnipotence, therefore the unreality of God.
The argument fails on the ultimate origins of evil.
In the beginning God created heavens and earth, in His time, at His command. The final results were perfect paradise.
In the beginning, the perfect creation was populated by those who could appreciate the wonders of perfection, sensible, sentient, willful creatures of material and immaterial realms. Willful to be impressed with it all, or not so.
In the beginning, the devil corrupted the realm with a simple temptation, one that has been reduplicated in many varieties: You shall be as God.
Thus, in the beginning, man, as this pseudo-deity, created in this perfect realm suffering, misery, and all sorts of conditions permitting sadness unexpressible.
Thus the atheists' Problem of Evil is viable only in one respect, the reality of evil, an evil that mysteriously disappears once God is dismissed and mankind is placed on its pseudo-divine pedestal. But evil is easily proved. Read your newspaper. Observe how you manage your speed and stoppages in your time behind the wheel. The evil is apparent, even if the origins of it are hushed up like some state secret.
God is omniscient. Scriptures speak of His resolution of this rebellion through the atonement of the Gospel, beloved news to all save those who imagine their own deity. God is omnipotent, but doesn't use it in the eradication of the pseudo-gods. That is reserved for a day ahead.
Till then, we may embrace evil as a human construct, honed to perfection by humanitarian goals and dreams quite utopean and quixotic. Paradise imagined but never grasped. Or else, we can abandon this destiny through a truly divine grace that is beyond the imaginations of humanity. Christian consciousness has understood the way of life and the way of death, the wide and narrow roads. It is opportune to travel the better road.
