[UntoHim]

Harold you missed the point, and on purpose I suspect.

God did not say "I create evil". The Hebrew word rendered "evil" was juxtaposed to "Shalom". This comparison was made immediately after comparison of light and darkness. The comparisons could not be more clearer. Would you argue that the opposite of light is not darkness? The opposite of shalom/peace is NOT "evil" in the conventional understanding of the word in English.

You are doing what Witness Lee did when he taught that when the word spirit (pneuma) is mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15:45 it MUST refer to the Holy Spirit, and he did this despite the context of the whole verse and whole chapter it was placed within.

I am not being flippant when I say we need to interpret the Bible with the Bible. This does not mean that we cannot bring other forms of logic and common sense into the mix, especially when it comes to the matter of context.

Does it teach anywhere in the Bible that God created evil? Did any of the prophets teach that God created evil? Did any of the writers of the New Testament teach that God created evil?