"God has morally sufficient reasons for permitting evil"

[Esquilax]

I'm not God. My sense of morality is based on emotion: the things that disturb me, and which I wish to avoid, and the things which please me, and which I wish to magnify.

And those things are informed by the reality around you, are they not? I mean, this isn't just something predicated on your feelings; the reason you feel disturbed by violence is because violence demonstrably causes harm, something that you'd want to avoid because harm doesn't ever enhance life.

However, morality is about right behavior or right views, and rightness implies a goal. IF there is a God, and IF that God's goals are different than ours then what we call evil based on our biological reactions to things as (very) temporary beings, and what God would call evil, based on a knowledge of all the universe and an immortal view on time, could conceivably be very different. Demanding that an actually-existent God subscribe to OUR sense of what is moral or just doesn't make sense in that context.

Well, if such a god knew things about morality that we didn't and wanted us to follow rules based on that knowledge, then a little explanation is probably in order. If your premise is that our understanding of morality is limited, fine; education is the way to get around that.

Incidentally, the goal of morality is the welfare of thinking beings; what else could it possibly be? What morally good purpose could exist that doesn't concern itself with lifeforms?