Evil is unexplainable because sin is unexplainable.
No words can comfort a mother who lost her son or daughter. No words can comfort a husband who lost his wife or a wife who lost her husband. No words can heal the eyes and hearts of children who survived. No words can undo the horrific memories that minds have recorded live.
Evil is beyond human capacity to grasp because it goes against our original design.
But the only One who has the answers did not remain silent, as many seem to think.
The Creator, who created humans in His image out of an overflow of love for eternal fellowship, and who was soon thereafter asked to leave because we wanted to rule our own kingdom… this Creator did not remain silent. He heard the cries of the very humankind who had rejected Him, foolishly thinking that they can determine what is good and evil for themselves. He heard their cries. He sent them messenger after messenger. He wept over them. Yet they would not listen. And He did not quit. He could have easily just clicked “undo” and destroyed it all. But He didn’t.
Only one option remained. That He Himself would bear the punishment that we rightly deserved for our evildoing. And so He chose to become man, to suffer at the hands of the very people He came to die for, to bear our punishment and die our death, so that He could raise us with Him in His resurrection from the dead. Death no longer has dominion over Him, and death no longer has dominion over us, if we choose to be in Him.
So, yes, my fellow humans, with a heart filled with pain, I admit that evil is unexplainable. But the God who overcame evil’s mightiest weapon, death, is right there with everyone who is hurting. He does not sit afar distancing Himself. He never did. He never will.
He is there Himself with the mother who lost her son or daughter. He is there Himself with the husband who lost his wife or the wife who lost her husband. He is there Himself with the children who survived. He is there Himself offering supernatural healing for those who remain, and eternal, pain-free life for those who have gone before us.