I've read in many other threads that God is not evil nor is it His will when evil occurs. Also read in posts He did not create evil. So what is evil and how did it get here? Here are some Bible verses that I see that support God created evil. Surely though they must mean something than what they appear to be saying. God created evil. God created nothing to hard to make. God created everything there is. So how did evil get into our world and how could God allow this when nothing is too hard for him? (wanted to hear what others have to say, for now I am convinced God created evil and it is the like God create light and dark, up and down, and sea and land, valley and mountain, male and female...good and evil, too. There are lots of scriptures that make statement regarding evil and running away from it, so I hope you don't post those. Also God created all living things, yet we are taught to run away from several animals because they will tear you apart. So is evil anything like the animals that God made that are harmful to others?
Isaiah:45
5I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
8Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
Jeremiah 32:17
Ah Lord GOD! Behold, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and outstretched arm; and there is nothing too hard for Thee.
Ephesians 3:9
and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ,
Isaiah:45
5I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
8Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
Jeremiah 32:17
Ah Lord GOD! Behold, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and outstretched arm; and there is nothing too hard for Thee.
Ephesians 3:9
and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ,