>>Makes one wonder... if he was so almighty and all-knowing, why would he invent evil in the first place? He'd surely have saved a lot on fighting. Sounds like really botched planning to me. But no matter how botched it is, just find a catch-phrase to make it all slide off your image. "Unfathomable are my ways" - great, that'll do it, I'll be the first teflon deity ever. And any whistle-blower will be handled by my thu... priests, devils et al. And the judiciary is in my hands too, so... OK, we're in power.
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>you're so cynical. :-)

I've noticed that it helps.

>If evil didn't exist, how would we know the difference between good and evil?

Evil is what hurts our existence as persons, societies, civilizations, species.

>Or why would we need God if there was no evil?

Q.E.D. this guy seems to have invented evil just to make himself necessary. Cynical enough?

>Because of evil in the world many people turn to faith in God for comfort and understanding. So you see, God uses evil so that His creation will turn to Him and seek His "love".

Who's cynical now? That sounds like selling protection, or any other racketeering scheme.

>In lot of ways God of Abraham is very selfish. He wants a relationship with His creation and would do anything to have his creation back, even to sacrefice His only son, Jesus, to die for the sins of the world.

And remember that he defined sin. So he's all of legislator, judge, prosecution, jury and firing squad. And he doesn't really want to get the job (whatever it may be) done - what'd he do after that? He wants to stay in business.