If there's one assumption you should live your life by, it's the fact that God is good all the time. Even when He's calling down fire from Heaven to consume your home, like the Ninevites might have thought when Nahum proclaimed judgement on them. The thing about goodness is that it doesn't mix with un-goodness.
In doctrinal terms, that's holiness meshing with sin. It's impossible.
This explains why God basically destroys all that is sinful under the Old Covenant. The only way to purge unrighteouesness in those times seemed to be downright destruction. But even then, God was good. He was a refuge for those who believed in Him, He took care of those who trusted Him to do so.
If God did that under the Old Covenant, where death was literally the end, how much more will He do it under the New Covenant - where Jesus has literally destroyed the end for those who trust Him?
How much more can God do for us now that we've got a New Covenant to act under? It's probably about as impossible as sin mixing with holiness, but mightn't God be able to be more good now?
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