[Dr. Eckleburg]

evil...is outside of God.

God does not possess evil.

But nothing is outside of God; God created everything -- including all voids, all evils, all sin, all light and darkness, all pain, all pleasure; all purpose, all taxes, all bruises, all saxophones, all pity, all promises, all goodness, all people, all places, all things.

Or else He isn't God.

IMO, through Scripture and God-given grace and logic, all understanding flows from this awareness of God's enormity.

[JesseShurun]

No, to be cast into the outer darkness will be to be where God is not. Again, it's a state of being, there is no God there

[JesseShurun]

(just as there is not a little speck of God in each and everyone of us. No HS inside of you, there is a place where God is not. It may exist, God created it, but He is not in attendance

[P-Marlowe]

God does not possess evil.

God created it, but he does not possess it? That's really stupid. What, did he pass the ball? If he doesn't posess that which he created, then he is not God. The same logic can be used against your argument.

Why do you guys insist on placing the blame for evil directly on a God who is proclaimed as good and who deplores evil

Frankly I am quite amazed at the direction this discussion has gone. To suggest that God is the creator and author of all that is evil in the universe is twisted at best. If you believe in such a God, then I would have to number you among the [FR 5th Amendment]s as those who do not believe in the same God that I worship.

Sorry.