Why did god create evil?

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Apollodorus and Ovid (and even Pausanias) tend to follow this, and Ovid in the Metamorphoses gives a more literal four ages than the ones found in W&D, though interestingly enough, he does question whether the unknown creator god may have created man or whether Prometheus did so (as accepted by Apollodorus and Pausanias after).

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Thank you for making me read Ovid.
Once he is referring to a creator god, he automatically becomes a theologian poet!!

I was very much impressed by the verse: They lived safe without a Judge, in everie Realme and lande because the Hebrew term Elohim is used in the Old Testament for Judges, Angels, gods and God
Therefore, we can modify the verse to read: They lived safe without Elohim, in everie Realme and lande !!

As regards the verse: The earth from heaven, the sea from earth, he parted orderly, I am of the opinion that he did not know what “Separation of Earth and Heaven” meant. In order to know, one has to read the ancient Near Eastern texts and he had no means to read them (I mean to read texts written more than a thousand years before his time).

Chaos came before cows.

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Cows gave birth to philosophers who spoke of chaos.