Please - we’re throwing around the word ‘evil’ and not discriminating between a moral evil (profoundly immoral and malevolent.
“his evil deeds”) synonyms: wicked, bad, wrong, immoral, sinful, foul, vile, dishonorable, corrupt, iniquitous, depraved, reprobate, villainous, nefarious, vicious, malicious) and those things we call ‘evils’ which are punishments or corrections that God brings.
If we call punishments that are corrective in nature ‘evils’, then we must differentiate that usage from the moral usage.
I cannot think that even the ‘big picture guys’ could lay vileness or corruption or depraved and immoral acts at God’s feet and say : You caused this.
As for ‘allowing’ evil - obvious, isn’t it, that we have been given a freedom and a responsibility, and WE have turned each one our own way, and WE have been reaping what we have sown since, almost, the beginning of things.
We have to lay the blame where it belongs - we are sinners. We were given stewardship and responsibility and instead we have made hell on earth.
God did not make moral evil. We did and we do. And still we (the human race) will not acknowledge our sins, assume our stewardship, and grow into Christ.
Once we lay the charge of immorality at the Creator’s feet, well, read this from Christ Triumphant by Thomas Allin:
I am merely expressing the deepest and most mature, though often unspoken, convictions of millions of earnest Christian men and women, when I assert, that to reconcile the popular creed, or any similar belief in endless evil and pain, with the most elementary ideas of justice, equity, and goodness (not even to mention mercy), is wholly and absolutely impossible.
Thus this belief destroys the only ground on which it is possible to erect any religion at all, for it sets aside the primary convictions of the moral sense; and thus paralyses that by which alone we are capable of religion. If human reason be incompetent to decide positively that certain acts assigned to God are evil and cruel, then it is equally incompetent to decide that certain acts of His are just and merciful. Therefore if God be not good, just, and true, in the human acceptation of these terms, then the whole basis of revelation vanishes. For if God be not good in our human sense of the word, I have no guarantee that He is true in our sense of truth. If that which the Bible calls goodness in God should prove to be that which we call badness in man, then how can I be assured that, what is called truth in God, may not really be that which in man is called falsehood? Thus no valid communication - no revelation - from God to man is possible; for no reliance can, on this view, be placed on His veracity.
For let me repeat that if goodness in becoming infinite turns into evil - if infinite love may be consistent with what we call cruelty - then, for all we know, truth may turn into falsehood, justice into flagrant wrong, light into darkness.
