The argument against "evil", theists please come to the defense.

[Skepsis]

I responded point by point, so it was pretty long. I decided to hide it.
I honestly want to hear a Christian weigh in on this.

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1. All humans will eventually be at peace and without suffering.

Perhaps, but that has yet to be proven.

2. After gazillions of years of peace and no suffering, even suffering for a thousand years will seem trivial.

A gazillion years? Wouldn't living for a gazillion million years be suffering in itself?

3. Opportunity of Higher character building is a worthy goal then of all suffering that is for a trivial period in relationship to endless period.

Not for an omnibenevolent God who could have made humanity any way he wanted.

4. Diseases and mental disorders give opportunity for humanity to strive for cures, and gives higher goals available for humanity. (genetic research, etc)

While the issue is anthropocentric, you can't blanket humanity. There shouldn't be evil in a single crevise in the universe.
Basically, what good came to the mental guy? He can never improve. This is injustice, an evil inflicted directly by God.

5. Natural disasters give opportunity for humanity to help one another and also to their best to limit damage of natural disasters.

Why didn't God make a world where there didn't exist natural disasters? He had the power to create a timeline where no natural disasters occured.

6. 4 & 5 are justified with perspective 1, 2, & 3.

1 is unjustified, and 2 and 3 are based from one. I also explained why I felt 2 to be suffering in itself.

7. Only designer has right to inflict pain for greater goal just as only designer has right to set up death.

Isn't this a form of special pleading? Why does only God have this right?

8. Just as we can't murder each other, because designed system kills a person, same then with not wanting to alleviate suffering, because system is designed to afflict suffering.

I don't understand this one, but it seems that God could alter the system at his will to avoid suffering.

9. All suffering caused by free-will is part of character choosing and gives opportunity for heroic struggle against evil.

Sounds like Romanticism to me. God places evils in the world that otherwise didn't need to exist, then justifies this by saying "Oh, well at least now you can fight evil heroicly".

10. Free-will was worthy goal given perspective 1, 2, and 3.

#6?

11. Any higher character building at any given time by any person is worth any suffering given perspective 1, 2, and 3.

Worth it, worthy goal,justified? #6, #11 and #12 are basically identical.

12. Patience in face of tragedy and suffering is worthy virtue, given perspective 1, 2, and 3.

Completely unnecessary if a God had the power to create a world without any evil. Why is it a virtue to combat evil if there isn't any and never will be?

Problem of Suffering and Evil seems solved.

Really?

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