It perhaps makes for good drama, to believe that there is an eternal battle between good and evil, of which both sides are engaged to the death against the other, with the ultimate winner, not known, until the war to end all wars is finally over. The thing is that this viewpoint is a fantasy, and not the reality, for good is Light, and that Light cannot ever be extinguished though it may be covered for a time; and that which is considered to be evil, is that which has walked away from the Light into darkness, of which, that darkness, no matter how long or how deep, will invariably meet its end, when it surfaces or is exposed at some point, to face the truth, which is Light.
This signifies that the evil that we see around us, reflects those that are lost, confused, demented, or in some sort of active rebellion, of which, the ultimate result is the only result that could conceivably occur, which is their eventual return, hat in hand, but willingly, to that which releases them from the prison of their own making. It should be kept in mind, that there isn’t anything inherently wrong in walking into darkness, for curiosity has its place; it rather becomes a serious mistake, when the darkness is perceived to be better than Light or as a substitutionary means to escape that which must be faced and thereby overcome; for that which sits in darkness, is ultimately that which has nowhere to go, for it cannot see properly without the light, and must thereby so acknowledge, sooner or later, the truth that those that are in darkness can only be truly liberated by that which is Light.
God has provided many gifts to us, of which one of them is to provide us with free will, of which that will, permits us to go about our business, for our betterment or not; of which no matter how bad our predicament might so be, there is always that escape route, that will instantly remove the scales from our eyes, and the darkness from our soul, if only we would re-open the window of our soul to that illuminating Light. The most salient characteristic about light is the fact that all that which is in darkness, will have that darkness removed instantaneously, once the light is turned back on again. This signifies that evil, as dark as it might be, and as bad as it can be, is only just one good step away from returning to the sanctuary of light, by voluntarily making that commitment and then doing just that.
The reason why there is so much evil around us, and why evil seems so intractable, has almost everything to do with the stubbornness of humankind’s heart, and the lack of accountability that so many people suffer from. Additionally, far too many people keeping doing bad things, and feel that they are trapped in such, because they wish to postpone as long as possible, the righteous punishment that seemingly awaits them. The thing is, that fear is misplaced, for God while being a God of justice, is also a God of unconditional love. It must be remembered, then, that the personal condemnation that so many of us fear to face as a consequence of our bad actions, never comes directly from God, but rather it comes from our own judgment that we have done wrong, and the resolution of such is to do our part to bring light to those that desperately need such.