In the absolute sense, power and knowledge are incompatible. Benevolence is subjective. By definition an omniscient God is objective, and to the individual, benevolence may appear in a short time scale, to be malevolent.

But steel is forged by fire and diamonds are made by pressure. Faith means assuming that in the longer term than our individual lives, the best outcome must come, on the basis that evil by its nature is not durable.