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Well, to put it in a different light, God may not be good by your standards, or even my standards.

God is all-poweful (willing suspension of disbelief if you're an atheist here). Technically, his power is limitless. By human standards, we cannot really comprehend the subject of something having no limit. We ourselves try to grasp the subject, maybe by traying to explain it away using complex exponential number systems, or mathematical symbols used to represent microcosms in formulas and equations. The human mind can't really process the information. We always try to pry it into some cookie-cutter form. Human language falls flat. His power is infinte. We go...and? We kind of just accept it without trying to understand or comprehend. To tell you the truth, the only thing we're actually sure of is the fact that we aren't sure about anything. Really. We (assuming we to mean the entire God-believing peoples of the world) just take it to the fact that God is a much, much, much smarter being than us. What we may classify in our limited visions as good or not good, God may see something entirely different. The only way we can even try to comprehend God is to put him into a human form. In the Bible, God is seen very much so as a normal guy. He possesses emotion, patience, anger, judgment, knowledge, a "like image", he "sees", thinks, acts out on whims and fancies. Whatever. Just because our minds try to process the actions of God into human-prescribed molds of good or bad...that is where faith comes in. The mere surrender to the fact that someone much smarter and more powerful (see? -human characteristics) is in control. That whatever happens, even though we may see it as bad, is really what is exactly supposed to happen. A divine scheme of things, to break it down.