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stuarter wrote:

Why should [God have a sense of right and wrong]? He’s the creator of all.

One idea might help to clarify, here: God is the Creator of all that IS, not the Creator of all that is NOT. For instance: God can create heat and/or light, since it is "something"; but God cannot create cold or darkness, since they are mere words used to describe the ABSENCE of heat and light, respectively. It's the same with evil: evil is not a "thing", but a privation (i.e. an absence of a good that should, by nature, be there)... and God cannot create evil; it would be akin to God creating "nothing"--it's simply not possible.

That, by the way, is the answer to the attempted criticisms/paradoxes which seek to refute God's omnipotence. "Can God create a stone so heavy that not even He can lift it?" "Can God create a square circle?" "Can God create a married Bachelor"? The answer to all of those is "no"... because every last one of them is literally nothing--"no thing". All of these examples are a mere string of words which have no meaning in reality; they're all illogical, nonsensical jumbles. One might as well ask if God can create _____ (i.e. the blank = silence)!