HOW AND WHY GOD CAN CO-EXIST WITH EVIL - PART 1

I have 2 premises:

1. The Christian God is characterized by being omni-benevolent, omniscient and omnipotent. This premise is crucial because It is only with these qualities that God could create the world and all its creatures, be the master of all existence and be able to make good the promise of salvation and eternal life in heaven.

2. There is plenty of evil in this world. By evil, I mean both moral badness and wickedness, as well as events causing injuries, harm, misfortune, loss or destruction and illnesses that cause pain, suffering and death. This is a factual premise as evidence is readily available in history, current affairs as well as our daily personal experiences.

Perhaps, the greatest stumbling block to faith in the Christian God is the apparent irreconcilable contradictions between these 2 premises. We wonder how an all-loving God can allow his creations to suffer evil, how an all-knowing God can fail to prevent or stop evil and how an all-powerful God can be powerless against evil forces.

I shall attempt to show how and why God and evil can co-exist and evaluate the sufficiency of my efforts.