"Someone recently told me this concerning the problem of evil. 

“My point is we can only assume or hope that God is good. If we look at the actual evidence or data around us and the (supposed) encounters of others, we see great beauty and love but also great ugliness and cruelty. The Christian response is that the latter is due to the Fallen state of things, but to me it seems to be built into reality… which is scary.”

I’ve wrestled with this scariness as well, and grappled with the existential terror of considering that the ultimate power of the universe (God) might be evil. I went down that rabbit hole and came to the conclusion that it’s not possible because evil is not self-sustaining, evil is self-destructive, it has no ultimate foundation of truth. It is always divided against itself, betraying, deceiving, and descending into chaos. It cannot be the Ground of being. Goodness, however, is self-sustaining, self-flourishing, blossoming into greater good, and eternally triumphing. Not only that, but the universe blossoms towards greater awareness, and awareness finds its consummation in empathy. Goodness is the omega point. We are all literally part of each other and what is done to the other is done to me. If I matter, then you matter too. Lack of empathy is ignorance. 

But let us consider the possibility that evil is indeed part of the eternal nature of things, as some kind of yin and yang. Even if this is so, it is there to be eternally overcome. The greater power is still good, because evil is still chaotic and self-destructive. Just look at us. We have evolved into beings who have developed empathy and are now struggling for equality. Goodness is the only organizing principle that flourishes instead of self-destructs. The universe is reaching forward towards something, and it’s not evil, it’s goodness."

Jacob M. Wright