All-Goodness

When coming to Judeo-Christian God, a concept that fails from the outset is all-goodness.  It has been a complicated concept to construct a god that is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent but still conceptually these attributes are imaginable, albeit a twist of the concepts and some qualifications are inevitable.  However, to argue that a god is all good is a thornier task in our world.  Although the all-goodness is imaginable, it is not defensible in our world where evil is.  The very concept, put to test of logic and observation, is obviously defeated before actual argument is built up. However, a lot of people are still strenuously attempting to defend it.  Richard Swinburne, an Oxford theologist, is one and I have to admit, he is almost there in his Existence of God.  The problem of evil per se does not defeat the all-goodness argument but it is the availability of the higher order of the evil that does.  It is arguable and clearly defensible that God is all good with minor evils, e.g., small pain that alerts you imminent danger, or ordeal that strengthens your will and reminds you of greater virtues.  But higher orders, for example, large scale and serious natural disasters that kill thousands of people and result in loss of family members, cannot be explained easily if at all possible.