Tension: God Ordains Evil, Yet He is Not Evil nor Does Evil
Scripture never attributes moral evildoing to God, even while it emphasizes that he has ordained and brings about what is evil. To attribute moral evildoing to God merely because he ordains and brings into being what is evil is to make a “category mistake” again; it is to try to think of the relation between God and this world in a way that inevitably smuggles in some illicit creature-to-creature analogy. Scripture stresses how different God is from everything he has made at least partly in order to keep us from drawing such analogies (see Ex. 9:14; Job 43:1-6; Isa. 46:8-11; Jer. 10:6-7; Rom. 9:19-20 and 11:33). God’s will is the ultimate expression for all of the evil we find in this world, but to the degree that some evil event has come about because of some sort of moral wrongdoing, blame for that wrongdoing should be assigned to some creature and not to God.
Mark R. Talbot, Chp. 3 in Beyond the Bouds, p 101