[Forest Keeper]

I think, the distinctions we are talking about here are very subtle. Do we all agree that God did not create evil, and that evil requires an act of will? I still think that the metaphor of light is the best. To make darkness one has to erect a barrier. Darkness then is very tangible behind the barrier. Yet it is not created by God.

I agree with you, Alex. I would add that evil can't come from God because it is not in His nature and He doesn't have it to give.

[annalex]

Much has been posted here that is in itself inobjectionable for all, but spun as countering Catholicism/Orthodoxy, and at the same time the Catholic/Orthodox position on free will and the problem of evil is spun to present us as deniers of sovereignty of God.

Please see 3,597 for a very precise, I think, treatment from the authoritative Catholic source.