Aspen,
I created this thread to address comments you made. So while you address these to Vengle, I'd like to answer.
If evil is not a thing, what is it? I understand what you to say Augustine said evil was, and cannot comment because I have not read his work. I have read you quoting Augustine as saying Evil is the absense of Good, and thus is not a thing. Yet I also see you say that evil exists. How does something that is not a thing exist? There are some that say darkness is the absense of light (and God said he created darkness too!)
Now Gen 1 never says God created darkness, but he did devide Darkness from light. Thus, darkness is something too. And spiritually, Darkness and Evil are things.
You also give a list of things God didn't create. I believe that list includes: Pollution, death, disease, depression (and many other things related), and extinction. You sure about that?
Pollution and extinction I would have a hard time with, but I believe through the Bible I could indirectly show God either caused it or at the very least, willed it to happen. The rest are easy to show that God brought them, used them and invented them.
Nontheless... I'd like you to show me with the Bible (not Augustine, whom I have respect for) that evil is not a thing and God did not create it, when I have a verse that says he does, and several others that says God created ALL things.