In the Book of Isaiah, the Lord announces: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil.
Paraphrasing Isaiah 45:7, "I form the light and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil," it changes the last word to "all" (or "all things").
"In the battle between creating evil laws and creating good laws, speaking out is golden and silence is death," read one recent item that he forwarded to his 100,000 followers.
He later recalled creating "evil smells" using hydrogen sulfide to drive his two sisters out of his room and nearly blowing up the house while concocting gunpowder for homemade fireworks.
God is supremely good and creates only good things, but he or she is powerless to prevent the Prince of Darkness from creating evil.
The eggs of good dragons create evil draconians, and vice versa.
Numerous variations of theodicy have been proposed which all maintain that, while evil exists, God is either not responsible for creating evil, or he is not guilty for creating evil.
How then are we to reconcile our notion of an infinite, loving Creator with one who "creates evil"?
The Augustinian theodicy asserts that God created the world ex nihilo (out of nothing), but maintains that God did not create evil and is not responsible for its occurrence.
Rather, we believe as the prophet Isaiah wrote 2,500 years ago that "I (God) am the One Who forms light and creates darkness; Who makes peace and creates evil; I am God, Maker of all these".
