There is evil in the ethical moral sense and there is evil in the sense of bad or distressful situations/events.
I agree with this. "Evil," in context, is referring to events that are negative in terms of our idealic well-being. In this sense, getting a cold can be viewed as an "evil."
Do I then claim that germs were created by Satan, and not by God, because God wouldn't do such "evil" to us? Not at all. God could create germs with a good purpose which, when distorted, can infect us with colds. It would be the "distortion" that corrupts the good purpose.
Some say that all negative things, in the material world, were "distortions" caused by Man's Fall. But I don't find that to be likely. It appears that God factored into His "good creation" all kinds of potential distortions that could be turned into "evils" that afflict Man because of his disobedience.
For example, God created violent animals which from the beginning were no threat to Man, but only to themselves. But after the Fall, these violent animals had to have "fear" put on them by God to keep them from killing people en masse. The instincts of animals were thus "distorted" to allow the killing of people, and had to have the additional insertion of "restraint" upon them to prevent them from becoming even worse.
Why would God even create animals that kill each other from before the Fall? Some people deny that they did, that animals were strictly vegetarian. I find this absurd, and won't address it. I just think that God did create what appears to be "evil" to us to instruct us as to what is God's protection in an environment in which Satan likely had already fallen. God would know that Satan would go after Man, and creation reflects Satan's "snake-like qualities."
Is God "evil" for creating creatures that depict evil, or that cause death in the animal kingdom? I don't think we can define morality, since we're not God. The best we can do is see God's love for Man as supreme among the creatures He made.
As an interesting side note, I would add this. I came down with a weird "cold" over the last couple of weeks. I thought it may be COVID, and took the test, but it turned out negative. However, I think the test may have been flawed, because it was outdated, and the control line disappeared. It is a truly strange virus
Well, I don't fall for all of the lies coming out of Fauci and the Chinese in Wuhan. COVID came from gain of function research, supposedly designed to produce better antidotes/vaccinations for viruses, but I wouldn't put it past the parties to experiment for the purpose of biological warfare.
So I was discussing this with my wife this morning, and expressed how we are now getting diseases that God had designed for beasts and not for people. AIDS may be the product of people have sex with monkeys. Altering viruses so that people can get beast-only viruses is something God never intended for us to experience.
So you can see the pattern, that God did create evil that initially may not have been destructive to Man, but after the Fall, led to distortions that now have created "evil" for Man by our own sinful ways. God never has evil intentions. But in His creativity He has allowed us to cause distortions that have brought our own evil upon ourselves.
The innocent, however, suffer as a result of the evil of others. We all have to live in the same village. And Sin always produces victims, including among the innocent.
What a terrible cold/flu! I am very slowly recovering.
