It is at the cross that we are presented with the paradox running throughout the mysterious relationship between the evil of suffering and God’s good purposes. From one point of view, the cross was the worst thing that could have happened (the murder of the divine Son, and so pinpointing even more forcefully our rebellious attitude towards God). Yet at the same time the cross was the best thing that ever happened (the divine means of rescuing us). Here we see God taking sin and