I understand where your coming from. How can an acclaimed just and benevolent god exist if evil and sin are still permitted to coexist with the good? Answer: [b]Punishment isn't justified without a cause. [/b]You must understand that God is a just god, meaning that He acts in accordance with the evil that is committed. If God forcefully made it so that humans were never permitted to do evil, there's no justification for the punishment that man commits. That's why we have a hell. Yes, the Holocaust was an extremely horrendous event, but we must also remember that God stated as well that the Jews will receive much affliction because of their denial of Christ (but that's another subject). We must also remember that it was repetitively exhibited throughout biblical and non-biblical history, God used man to punish man whenever it was intended to demolish a nation because of their iniquity (e.g., the Babylonian captivity of Israel, the destruction of the Amorites through Joshua, the biblical ordinance for government to commit capital punishment, etc). ...and do you recall what happened to the N[i]a[/i]zis at the end of WWII?[spoiler]They were [b]demolished[/b].[/spoiler]God is a just god, but we must remember that [b]He only acts once an evil has been committed[/b] because only then is His own participation justified in the sights of government and in the sights of His creation.