It's too quiet here so I'm going metaphysical to see what happens. Regarding God creating evil, since God is all-good, he cannot engage in moral evil, because it is impossible for him to act against the good (Himself). However, God can cause natural evil (a natural event with at least immediate unsatisfying consequences) because pain can ultimately serve God’s good ends or purpose for creation. It seems clear from the context that this verse refers to God creating natural evil.
Would human parents bring 'calamity' in the form of war, disease and all forms of unnecessary suffering upon their own children for their own good? I do not mean challenges that build character. ~The Riddle of Epicurus~ Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
