Is Life Enduringly Good? Or Is It Ultimately Bad?

Is life ultimately good? Or is life ultimately bad? And there's so many stories in Scripture that deal with this. When you read stories like Sodom and Gomorrah or the flood or the conquest of Canaan, I see how you can come away with that picture. But when we're asking this question, well, what is God capable of doing evil? Is God sadistic? You're asking not just a question about God himself but about reality itself.