[OldNavyVet]

virtue comes from God.

Given that dictum, evil must also come from God.

[JCBreckenridge]

“Given that dictum, evil must also come from God.”

You believe in free will?

[Trailerpark Badass]

As a potentiality, of course.

If He is the creator of our existence, everything within it springs from Him.

To put it another way, do you think we'd be capable of evil had we never been created?

But do you think God desires us to be evil?