Our life is a process of "soul-making"

Most alleged refutations of the atheists' dysteleological argument claim to justify the evils that occur, usually by insisting that they are, in some practical sense, necessary for the fulfilment of God's purposes in the world - often summed up in the claim that they are necessary for the achievement of greater goods.

If evils are "necessary," in any sense, some redefinition of "omnipotent" may be necessary too. "Omnipotent" must mean "able to do anything consistently describable" or "able to do anything that can be done."

• Evils might be practically necessary in order that God might be glorified.
• God also gets glory when people are redeemed. He is glorified when Satan’s prison is broken open and men and women are turned loose from the power of the evil one. People are saved from their sins in order to give God glory. So the more people who get converted, the more thanksgiving is going on, and the more there are in the choir singing, “Hallelujah!” (2 Corinthians 4:15).
• Evils might be practically necessary as "object lessons."
• “Forgive Us”—we need remission of our sins. “Lead us not into temptation,” “deliver us from evil.” There are many object lessons, but at least this one can be mentioned—to stress the positive in prayer. We are all the same, we are equally human. We dread this and we fear that. You cannot imagine the number of things we are praying—how shall I put it—from! “0, Lord, deliver me.” Without excluding that, yet our primary focus in prayer should be praying for, though perforce we are perhaps most conscious of our need of prayer when we are in trouble
• Evils might be practically necessary as punishments to make things right again
• You might think there is objective morality but no God. That's fine. I would like to ask you to answer a question for me though. Let's pick an easy one. Why is rape objectively wrong? Don't misunderstand me, I can't think of a single instance where rape wouldn't be wrong. I believe very strongly that sexual abuse is one of the greatest evils in the world. Why is it evil? If you can answer me without using a God-based or subjective argument, I'll concede the point. That point is this: without God, there is no such thing as right and wrong, only the things we call right and wrong. And since nobody can agree on what to call what, we're all in a lot of trouble.
• Evils might be practically necessary in order for certain virtues to occur.
• There is a type of agent who refuses even to try to do what an ethically virtuous agent would do, because he has become convinced that justice, temperance, generosity and the like are of little or no value. Such people Aristotle calls evil (kakos, phaulos). He assumes that evil people are driven by desires for domination and luxury, and although they are single-minded in their pursuit of these goals, he portrays them as deeply divided, because their pleonexia—their desire for more and more—leaves them dissatisfied and full of self-hatred.
• Evils might be practically necessary in order for freedom to be possible.
• The world could not be the best possible unless those who inhabit it do good freely. But one cannot do good freely unless one is free and one cannot be free unless one has the genuine opportunity to do evil.