[Come get it]

Interesting - God as the original, ultimate, purposefull source of all the evil in the world.

Evil is not something that can originate with God. God allowed it into His creation for a purpose, but He did not create it. Lucifer created it when he exercised his free will to turn away from God. God knew that would happen, but He did not do it.

[RS]

"Evil is not something that can originate with God. God allowed it into His creation for a purpose, but He did not create it. Lucifer created it when he exercised his free will to turn away from God. God knew that would happen, but He did not do it. "

Even more interesting - God created Lucifer, who he knew would become Satan, so Satan could create evil, because God -
A. Did not have the power to create evil himself
B. Needed a "straw man" to do the dirty deed for him
C. Wanted "plausable deniability" ( how Clintonesque of Him )

... " I didn't kill him... The gun I bought, loaded, pointed and pulled the trigger on killed him ! ...
( the gun ) ... Don't look at me ! the bullet killed him ! - I just expelled it from my presence !