after all your twisting and spinning you still have not produce one scripture that saids God DID NOT CREAT EVIL. You the one my friend who is ignorent.... If there was a hell you would be first in line for calling God a lier.
Wow! Go away for a couple of years and when I come back, I find that the Christians have become militant!
Hi winner08. I haven't been involved in this conversation (obviously; we haven't met yet) but I would like to add a couple of cents to it. If we're talking about whether or not God created evil, I think there is an important distinction to be made between what God creates, and what his creations create. Satan is evil, yes? And God, because he knows things, probably knew even when he created Satan that Satan might one day turn against him, right? But when Satan rebels against God and begins to do evil things, I personally don't chalk that up to God. If you're looking for scripture, then I'd say the first chapter of James is helpful, which says (not a direct quotation) that we should not say that we are being tempted by God, because God cannot be tempted nor does he tempt others, but we are tempted when we allow our own lust to carry us away. I'd say that lust is sort of the root of all evil, and it was the lust for worship that led Satan to betray God. According to James, and if one accepts it the Holy Spirit who inspired his writing, it is not God who creates evil, but rather anyone who can't control themselves and falls away from what is good. After all, what is evil if not a falling away from what is good (good being the things that God creates and the way he creates them).
Also, on the subject of God's sovereignty: I'd completely agree with you that God is sovereign, but not unchangeable, because the idea that God is unable to change his mind negates his sovereignty.
Marsh