I believe that God is both good and great and that His goodness does not negate His greatness.  God’s goodness is necessarily prior to evil and existed before evil.  Evil by its nature is dependent on the existence of good in order to be defined.  God, therefore did not need evil to become good, but allows evil to magnify His goodness.  As with His goodness, so God shows His greatness by the manner in which He deals with evil.  God’s greatness is not shown by instant annihilation of evil, but by planned victory over it.  Before the beginning of time, God has had a perfect plan to eradicate evil.  The existence of evil does not negate God’s greatness or goodness, but only serves to magnify them both.

o   I reject dualism because evil demands either the preexistence of good or a rule by which good and evil are to be defined.

o   I reject either a limitation on God’s goodness or His greatness because the problem of evil is already handled in the plan of God.