A word that sums up God’s goodness
Omnibenevolent is a Christian term rather than a word found in the Bible. Omni means all, and benevolent means good or kindly disposed. So the word says that God’s character is wholly good. He does not have a selfish, cruel, or shadowy side waiting to appear.
Scripture speaks this way in its own language. The psalmist sees God’s goodness reaching all he has made, while James says that every genuinely good gift comes from the Father, who does not change like shifting light and shadow (Psalm 145:9; James 1:17). God’s goodness is steady because God himself is steady.
The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
His love is part of who he is
The clearest biblical claim is that God is love. That does not mean love is the only thing we can say about him, or that every human idea of love defines him. It means love belongs to God’s very nature. His actions towards the world, including his sending of Jesus, reveal that love (1 John 4:8-10).
At Mount Sinai, God described himself to Moses as merciful, gracious, patient, abundant in goodness and truth, and willing to forgive. This is not a soft picture of a distant deity. It is God making his own character known (Exodus 34:6-7).
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Goodness is not the same as indulgence
God’s goodness includes his justice and holiness. A good judge does not call evil harmless, and a good parent does not pretend that destructive choices are fine. Psalm 89 joins righteousness and judgement with mercy and truth at the foundation of God’s rule (Psalm 89:14).
So omnibenevolence does not mean God approves of everything people do or removes every consequence at once. His opposition to evil is part of his goodness, especially for those evil has wounded. His love is truthful, not careless.
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
What about suffering?
This is where the question becomes personal. If God is completely good, why is the world so painful? The Bible does not offer a quick answer for every loss. It does show that God can bring good even through what people intend for harm, as Joseph recognised after his brothers had sold him into slavery (Genesis 50:20).
Christians trust that God works for good in the lives of those who love him, but that promise does not call suffering good or make grief a lack of faith (Romans 8:28). Jesus himself entered a world of tears, rejection and death. God’s goodness is seen most deeply in his rescue of sinners through Christ, not in a promise of an easy life (Romans 5:8).
A truth to hold onto
God’s goodness means you can bring him both gratitude and hard questions. You do not need to tidy up your doubts before praying. Read the Psalms, notice their honesty, and look again at Jesus, whose life shows God drawing near to needy people.
Omnibenevolent means God is never less good than he has shown himself to be. When circumstances are confusing, Christians are invited to measure them by God’s revealed character, rather than measure God’s character by one painful circumstance.