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if you're an atheist, you assume a and b to do reducto ad absurdum. just a hint. i've done this arguement from both sides....
this often works. if the person defending God's justice isn't aware of this arguement, they will often claim some very interesting outs: "the mystery of God's will" and "good comes out of suffering." I don't quite agree.
i've said it before, but i'm too lazy to search, but the basic is as noted above, we do have the ability act for good or for ill. I don't like to say we are free to do evil, since i believe sin contains its own captivity, but we certainily have the ability to do so. Perhaps while some great hurts shock us(the holocaust is frequently used), we forget that the little hurts WE inflict everyday in some cosmic sense are no less...and we seem allow our faults in a world that is still "just."
God does not override every choice for evil, small or large. but God does not cease to send messengers, prophets and the Spirit in to the world to heal it from the wrong we have done. this question is worthy, but i think it places great limits on God-that God must act to clean up every mess we make before we make it...and i don't think thats the kind of relationship God seeks with us, or that we need for our salvation.
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