Good, Evil, and God.

The problem of pain and evil in determining if there is a God is more of a problem for atheists than it is for a Christian to answer.  You can look at the world and see all the hurt and therefore argue if God is good, but you cannot argue his existence by that standard.  Because if you do use a sense of justice or good and evil or morality, then you must ask where it came from?  If it is man made then it is illogical to hold God to that standard.  If it is an absolute, then we must ask by what means is it present in our consciousness.  To someone who doesn't want to believe, this feels circular.  But in order to exclude the presence of God, you must include that good and evil do not really exist, they are mere construction of evolution and culture.  And if you can look at the world and say that there is no good and there is no evil, then you have made a greater leap than you would have to make to believe that there is a God of absolutes.  From there the Christian worldview makes the most sense of why things are the way they are and what the resolution to our ache for justice and goodness is.