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The evil and the suffering of this world are a fault of man's distance and separation from God and the consequence of free will. I understand that the depths of evil in this world can seem to sink lower than the heights of good, but evil is simply the absence of that which is good, which is God. In that absence there is a depravity that is massive, but it is nothing in terms of the magnitude of the love of God.
Were there not a choice of evil (which is free will) there could not be the path of good, not in a gnostic sense of a necessity of evil and darkness as a balance, but rather as a temptation to reinforce and elevate the choice of God and righteousness. It is only through overcoming the evil of the world that we get closer to God, same as building a fire from the warmth, since the coldness is not a property in and of itself but rather an absence of the warmth for which we must create from the gifts God has given us. Disorder and evil is the absence of good that occurs from the separation of all things from God (since if they were of God, they would have to be co-eternal and co-reigning as God, which cannot be), and it is only through perseverance of order and modesty and temperance that Goodness is created and preserved.
I don't know if that makes sense, but it is how I understand the answer to the problem of evil.