>>11521051So the second part is exactly about this:
2. How can we unify the existence of evil with a wholly good God.
This is a question that can be explained in various ways, and they all pretty much come down to the same, but still I feel we should look at the important angles individualy.
The simplest one is "What God tells us to do is good, and what he tells us to not do is evil". This is the simple version about God giving us a purpose.
The other angle is look at how sin is defined. Here God is wholly good on the premise of being perfect alone as evil is imperfection. To sin, and thus do evil, is to miss our purpose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin>Sin has many classifications and degrees, but the principal classification is that of "missing the mark" (cheit in Hebrew).The mark we should aim for being perfection that is lawfulness in completion.
Even the greek word translated as sin plays into this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia>The term hamartia derives from the Greek ἁμαρτία, from ἁμαρτάνειν hamartánein, which means "to miss the mark" or "to err"Our pupose being perfection, to be like God/Jesus. So doing evil is doing something wrong, being imperfect meaning a perfect being, like God inadvertedly is, is wholly good. As such sin creates a "distance" to God. The more sin you have, the more imperfection, the less you are like God, perfect, and thus evil can be within God.
