I think we agree. Evil is out there, it exists, but to do evil you have to grant it that power. Good wins as long as you choose good. Human nature has both but we have the power to choose the good of our nature. We will always be given one or more good choices.
In the history of the Hebrew people, the Lord declared Himself to be their righteousness.
That’s the way humanity was meant to be, but it was given a choice to say yes or no.
Saying yes after having first said no means to also submit to a salvation process, in which the burden of sin is borne and sin is pardoned. This is the thing that New Testament preachers bring out explicitly. For some people, it was not enough to be told of a pardon of sin and a salvation, to be able to believe in such a thing. They had to see it. And God stooped that low.
We have various possibilities for God to operate, but anyone who has really wallowed in sin knows that having done that can result in corruption that will sometimes last for years. After Moses unsuccessfully tried to get a plan going where he would avenge upon evildoers to work salvation (whereupon his own people became frightened of him. a result that he obviously didn’t want) it took 40 years of wilderness to learn to be humble before God. Then he came to the burning bush, and a story of salvation by God’s power unfolded. Not everybody has 40 years of wilderness, of course. But the need for a walk through the wilderness remains for all who would be conduits of salvation.