One could honestly replace "greater good" with "lesser evil" in your statement there and then the problem of evil comes stomping into the room and grabs a chair on the settled side, like it always does in this debate.
They could replace it, but then they'd be talking about something else. "Greater good" and "lesser evil" are synonymns.
For true relationship to exist, the choice to hate must exist. for any of His creation to be deemed righteous there has to be the choice to be unrighteous. (and yes I see the trap... righteous by grace thru faith of course,
) What does justice mean if the thing judged has no ability to chose?
Who says there is no ability to choose? Every day everyone of us makes choices. Now, I'm going to go ahead and assume here you're talking about this in relation to the increasingly poorly titled doctrine of Total Depravity.
Like with many other more difficult theological concepts it's important that it be addressed with precision or else serious misunderstanding can result. I'll hit upon a basic distinction that must be made here and go further into it if you want to converse further on the subject.
Calvinism makes a distinction between man's natural ability and his moral ability. When we say that all men are sinners, it is not to say that all men
must sin, but rather that all men
will sin. Which is to say that man possesses the natural ability to do good, but without the direct intervention of the Holy Spirit he will not possess the moral inclination to do so and so will remain dead in his sins.
If God intervened in all evil, evil would have no consequence. We could ignore/abuse our kids, be as lazy as we please. Do any crazy thing that comes to mind and God jumps in to fix it? How could that ever make sense?
Sure it would. An omnipetent God could intervene in each every case assuring that while evil was certainly punished that it's affects and consquences were limited to the people who committed the evil acts and that it didn't those who were innocent of those acts.
But He doesn't do that, and so we must deal with the problem of why evil is allowed, and to this question the OV can present no real solutions of why a man must suffer, not for merely his own evil, but also for the evil of others.
Your insistance on God's total foreknowledge logically requires that He planned all evil, unless you can logically account for the workings of a crystal ball.
Any theological system which retains an omnipotent God must deal with precisely the same issues. Even if you don't believe God knew that the holocaust would've taken place from the foundations of the world, you're still left with a God who heard it planned, saw the gas chambers and ovens built and yet still chose not to intervene. The difference remains that with foreknowledge we can actually present a morally justifiiable, if extremely painful, reason for why this was allowed it to happen, while without it an omnipotent God stands without any sort of justification for His inaction.
Everything God claims to want us to be becomes meaningless if God planned everything and all judgements of us actually have nothing to do with choices we made. We would be no more accountable for our sin than a bomb made in a factory.
God knew is not precisely the same thing as God planned.
Let me see if I can put this into an anology, albeit an imperfect one, where it makes more sense.
I know the sun is coming up tommorrow at a certain time , and I know I need for it to be light outside before I go out. So tommorrow, I will wait to for that time before I go out. This is the same sense in which God knows many events are going to take place, and makes His plans accordingly. However using that exact example, because God is omnipetent to be consistent we must acknowledge that He could also have simply prevented the sun from coming up or made it up come up at a different time etc, and therefore (despite the fact it would arise with or without His direct intervention) we still must say that when the sun rises it is due to it being God's will. To say that any event takes place which contrary to God's will, when spoken of in this sense, is a tacit denial of His omnipotence.
