If God wanted to zap away the people causing our collapse into utopia, he could

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Good loses all meaning if its opposite - Evil - does not exist.

GOD is the sum of all this. For God to choose "good" over "evil" would be for God to negate that God is All - a definitional contradiction.

Acknowledge that all the states of existence - what we consider "good" "evil" and "neutral" and all the shades therein - have their proper place within this creation and that if any of them is removed this creation as we know it ceases to exist...

Do this and you begin to witness God.

To understand (comprehend) God and God's will? We do not have that capacity. This is by design.

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Lies lies and more lies from demons. The only reason this partially true is because they suppress our minds to make it so. However, even here it is not really the case. Bad certainly makes us appreciate good more, but its abscence doesn't nullify it. And even if it were necessary, I think there's more to the story when 99.9% of things in this world are bad. Many people live their whole lives from birth to death in absolute misery, never experiencing a drop of joy. And even the luckiest people like us, save for an elite hand-picked few, still live something like 30% good and 70% bad. If bad were only here so good exists, I'd think it would be the other way around.