Argument from evil, restated

[Undeceived]

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

1. Love necessitates free will (otherwise we’d be robots/animals).
2. Free will necessitates evil (the option to go against God’s will).
3. Evil must exist in order for free will and love to exist.

So if God wants our love, he must create evil. But keep in mind that God is not actually doing evil. If sin is "anything against God’s will," God cannot sin because he cannot fly in the face of his own will. God merely creates the opportunity/option/idea of countering his will. He did this when he told Adam, “You must not eat from the tree.” Adam committed the first sin, and with it, committed the first evil.

To rephrase, God necessarily cannot do evil, because evil is sin, and sin is anything anti-God. So when Isaiah 45:7 says God “creates” evil, it can only mean that he introduces the idea.

Remember that we must use the Bible to interpret the Bible. Otherwise, we risk imposing our own conceptions on God’s word. The above, I hope, is a successful Christian interpretation.