Good and Evil - God Exists

Just recently I read a discussion concerning good and evil that included an assumption that God had created both. But, since God is good and God is not a created being it is more accurate to assume that neither good nor evil are created things. They are, rather, more like states of mind or attitudes.

In a narrower, or more restricted sense, they are not even truly opposites like up is the opposite of down or push is the opposite of pull. Evil is the absence of God’s goodness and love. In that sense they are more like heat and cold, light and darkness or life and death. We know these to be opposites and they are in the same sense as good and evil. In each case one is the absence of the other and in each case only one can be measured. Heat can be measured, but cold cannot; cold is only the absence of heat. Light can be measured, but darkness cannot; light can be bright or moderate or low, but darkness cannot get any darker for it is only the absence of light. Life's quality can be measured, but dead doesn’t get any better or worse; it is the absence of life.

Love, compassion, kindness, grace, justice and mercy are attributes of God and attitudes of His people. Attributes or attitudes contrary to goodness and love demonstrate the absence of God and constitute evil by their nature. Therefore, it is safe to say that neither good nor evil were created by God. However, both exist because of God and the contrast between the two is realized solely because He exists.