You’re simply humanizing God too much. He is so far above us that we have no hope of correctly rationalizing his actions and motives.
I agree.
However, I refuse to believe that God is evil. And in my opinion, someone who punishes others for doing things he caused them to do without choice is evil.
I’ll take my chances with whether God can accept such an opinion.
Yeah, but then again that's why salvation isn't based upon rationalism, using our soul as a system of perception, nor upon empiricism, using our bodies as systems of perception, but rather upon faith, a system of spiritual perception.
Once He regenerates our human spirit, His nature of loving His believers results in His giving us many things through grace, including knowledge and wisdom of Him by His Plan, by His mechanisms, to understand Him as He has intended.