Good point, 12th.

I'd approach the question from a slightly different standpoint.

God is either everything, or He's nothing.

Take your pick. You can't have it both ways.

If He's "everything", then he represents both good and evil, and in that case the assignment of "attributes" to an unknowable God is just anthropomorphic thinking.

In other words, if one considers that God is "only" good, and everything evil is "not" God, then isn't one putting God into a box?

How can one carve out "a small piece" of God (ie whatever part of His creation man egotistically considers to be "good"), and consider that to be His totality?

Personally, it makes much more sense to me to consider God in terms of the essential symmetries of nature. Tha "laws" of the universe - the "structure" that somehow evolves in a chaotic subatomic environment, and somehow gives rise to the "complexity" that is human beings.

It seems to me, that the concepts of "good" and "bad" are uniquely anthropomorphic - and even beyond that - they belong to "individuals", not to the human race as a whole. One man's good is another man's evil, and only God knows what's REALLY good.

That judgement (ie what is REALLY "good"), belongs to God, and not to man.

The arrogance involved in assuming that an individual human being can fully understand the totality of God, is astounding. And it's only "slightly" less astounding, that the first place peoples' heads go, is to attempt to assign attributes to the infinite.

Is this life "good"? I don't know. Maybe it is. "Mine" happens to be pretty good right now, but that's just my own gestalt, and it has nothing to do with God.

It's interesting to note peoples' reactions to events. When something "bad" happens, some people get pissed off about it and complain loudly, and others try to derive meaning from it (and learn lessons from it).

Is the glass half full, or half empty? I suggest, that it's only a matter of individual perception. As is "good", and "bad".

Seas increase, and they fall again. Such are the laws of nature. Is it "good" when seas increase? It's probably good if you're a fisherman, and not so good if you're a sailor. See what I mean?