JS> Interesting, except for the fact that if Albert Einstein truly
 JS> said this, he was dead wrong. God plainly tells us in the Old
 JS> Testament that He did in fact create evil in order to fulfill
 JS> His own Divine Purposes:

 JS> "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
 JS> create evil: I the LORD do all these things." Isaiah 45:7, KJV

 AA> And further to this:

 AA> "create evil"

 AA> Heb. "ra" translated "sorrow,"
"wretchedness," "adversity,"
 AA> "afflictions," "calamities," but never
translated sin. God created
 AA> evil only in the sense that He made sorrow, wretchedness, etc., to
 AA> be the sure fruits of sin. 

not wanting to get involved in any religious stuff or head off topic for
this area but i have to wonder why everything has to fall back to god when
he gave man free will which means that man can create anything he wants...
including books supposedly "written by god" which were actually
written by man who attributed the writing to god and which also means that
man could create lies, sins, evil and all the other sundry stuff that god
supposedly created as written in the books that were actually written by
man... remember, god gave man free will which means a whole lot if folk
truly consider it in relation to those books that god wrote...

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