The Problem of Evil

My theological correspondent (a non-Christian who asked about the omnipotence of God and my doubts) said he found the problem of evil (almost?) insurmountable. Here are some thughts (numbered for convenience not logical order) which may help:

(1) We cannot hope to completely "solve" the "problem" of evil. God is infitely above and beyond us so he will always remain the great Incomprehensible Mystery to us. Yet we can describe the Mystery: we can say what is not so and mark out the area where the truth lies. If you like, we can know God like a sketch (an outline with features and shading) not a photograph (in every detail).

(2) God is all loving, all powerful, all wise and all good. He really does govern the world. God must have a morally sufficient reason for allowing evil.

(3) God must have made the best of all possible worlds considered as a whole, because of (2).

(4) God did not create evil. Evil is a privation (a falling away from good) not a thing that exists in itself.

(5) God is not the immediate responsible author of sin. Satan and humans are real responsible moral agents and all the blame for sin attaches to them.

(6) No one is really innocent. We all deserve hell.

(7) God uses evil for good. Without evil there could not be certain types of good: there is no making up without breaking up, no wrath or redemption without sin or loss.

(8) In the Person of Jesus Christ as a Man, God entered our world and took the full force of evil and sin. God sympathises with us in our human sin and suffering since he has been there.

(9) in (8) Jesus defeated sin and death and all their harmful consequences. He drew the sting of death. His resurrection proves his victory and guarentees it to all his people.

(10) God will judge the world with justice and every wrong will be put right.

Anything to add or change?

Do you find this intellectually and emotionally satisfying?