The hoary theological “problem of evil” thus has nothing to do with all the choices that a sovereign omnipotent and omniscient God could have made but failed to make, thereby leaving us in our present sorry and befuddled state. The problem of evil has to do with the ambient and chaotic play of ambiguous beings, an ambience beyond mere ambiguity, since our choices rarely boil down to two. The ambience of our being is its greatest if riskiest resource.
