I'm not trolling. I'm... wrestling. It seems like the main answer to the problem of evil is the free will defense. Perhaps someone can provide reasonable answers to the following objections:

1) I see no reason why an omnipotent God could not create free beings who seldom, if ever, choose to sin. After all, the capacity for Christ to sin must have been actual. Additionally, we are to be remade with a new nature, never to sin again. This, conceivably, does not supplant the "freeness" of our will. So, free but sinless beings are not only possible, but critical to the gospel message. Why is it that God could not create us in this, post-redeemed state in the first place?

2) It does not follow that, if it is beyond God's capability to create free beings who do not sin, that an inherited sin-nature is required. By what means is a "sin nature" passed along anyway? Surely not through biological means. It is some spiritual thing. Who authorizes this debt transfer? It must be God. In his infinite power, surely he could instead set up a scenario in which each new human is born with a neutral nature, given the opportunity to rise or fall based on their own choices, not those made by people millennia removed.

3) We are told that no one comes to the father except through Christ. The scriptures contain many passages which show us that an individual's disposition toward god is determined by god. God can turn Pharaoh's heart away. The spirit softens our hearts, creating fertile ground. There are some who will believe, and others who won't. Couldn't god, being omniscient, only create free beings who he knows will chose him? Of course, the very notion of him hardening and softening people's hearts obliterates the free will defense, but setting that side, him choosing to create only people who will ultimately choose him requires no such countermanding of the individual will. If he desires that none should perish, why would he not only create beings who, through their agency, would ultimately choose him?

It seems to me that we have no choice but to conclude that god is pleased to create people who are destined for damnation.