Yeah, but that gets to my point. Why did God create evil in the first place? A loving God should not have created frail creatures to live in eternal punishment. It would have been better not to be born than to be born and sent to hell.
God is not the author of evil. That was Satan of course. It was man's disobedience to the Lord, in what was the paradise of Eden, that led to the spread of evil in the world.
Lest you think I have all the answers and am just parroting a glib reply, I've pinged pastorbillrandles, the initiator of this thread to get his take.
I'll also add that there's one question I have in terms of evil: What happens when Satan is ultimately vanquished? Is there any chance that a Heavenly being might go rogue again. Presuming that there's free will in Heaven, will its inhabitants be prevented from even considering evil for all of eternity?