I. Introduction For many, the Christian commitment to a view of God as omnipotent yet omnibenevolent means that we must live with the problem of evil as the proverbial ‘thorn in the side’ of Christianity. Why is that? Because Christians are committed to what the Bible says about God. Scripture declares that the Lord does ‘whatever he pleases’ (Ps. 135:6). [1] Psalm 33 speaks of God’s great power, glory, justice, and goodness as the Creator, having brought creation into existence by speaking. The everlasting God ‘never becomes faint or weary; there is no limit to his understanding’ (Isa. 40:28). He does not merely observe the flow of history, rather, he has written the flow of history, in that he declares ‘the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: my plan will take place, and I will do all my will’ (Isa. 46:10). Reading such passages should cause us, as we are commanded, to ‘stand in awe of him’ (Ps. 33:8). But in reading such pa