And When Evil is Greater than the Good from it.....?

Alright, so it makes sense that good can come from evil, but there must be times when the amount of good arising from the evil doesn’t make it worthwhile.   Why doesn’t God eliminate that evil?

Well, first, you have no evidence that he hasn’t.   One of the lessons of the Book of Job is that he only allows certain evils and that he rules that certain others cannot occur.  If he allowed evil without limit this world would be a far worse place than you think it is now.

It is this loving nature of God that makes the question of evil so poignant:  if we are distressed by the evil we see, as we ought to be (II Peter 2:8), then how much more sensitive God must be to it!  And how much we ought to realize that he will not allow anymore evil than what is needed for his loving purpose!

We set ourselves up as judge of the evil that is allowed and decide that some shouldn’t be, but we have no view of the long-term.  Romans 8:18 is instructive on this: “I consider our present sufferings insignificant compared to the glory that will soon be revealed to us.”  There is a purpose in it that is often as far removed from our perception as is a parent’s purpose from the perception of a toddler who doesn’t get what he wants.