In The debatable nature of God I considered the nature of the 3 'omnis' as applied to God. Going back and re-reading it the logic doesn't hold up very well. How could an omnigood God predispose His creation to failure and evil? How could the concept of evil even possibly exist in the creation of an omnigood entity? If, as I understand God, He is constitutionally incapable of condoning, experiencing, or contemplating evil?
However God exists at a different scale from humanity. Perhaps, for Him, the short term existence of evil in Creation isn't a paradox against His nature since, as discussed in the linked post, He has balanced it all against Jesus, against Himself. Then there's promise of the cleansing at the end of things. So you could balance it against metaphysical scales or time scales. In either case you have a net 0 change in the 'quantity' of evil in existence. I'm falling back on quantitative verbiage but who can really measure these things? I merely record a refinement to the aforementioned theory.
Semi-Random tangent: I'm also led to wonder, just how does God interact with evil? Does He see evil? Presumably, or else most of Creation would be blank to Him. (I almost used the verb 'witness' instead of 'see' but that verb has other very serious connotations) Which doesn't really make sense. But seeing evil is, in part, experiencing it or having contact with it. Perhaps it is Jesus that sees evil. But all of that consideration will have to go into another post. This one is on another topic.
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