The only thing that matters during our life is thought supported by community. All of our thought can be used to obtain harmony with God's will through community. God's existence that is active creatively sits outside of time where things are static and fate is determined. God's mirror existence that is passive is within time, as duality that is always active (i.e., the tension and friction within God within time is always active but God itself is not active within time). Evil is the absence of God and exists within time as fragmentation of God. Fragmentation of God is what keeps physical objects separate and our wills unique, i.e., giving us free will. I think creation is a method by which God grows (i.e., God is unified and made more whole within time) through our gradual purification. In that way, we are in God's image.
These thoughts depend on Kabbalistic thought where God exists as Ein Sof and also the image of Ein Sof within creation that some vocalize as "Yahweh", the Tetragrammaton. From these beliefs, God's will and the wills of the angels/demons have a singular direction but the wills of people within creation are free to choose their direction.
St. Thomas Aquinas in question XLIX of the Summa Theologica ("The cause of evil") determined, among other things, that God does not cause evil:
"On the contrary, Augustine says that, God is not the author of evil, because He is not the cause of tending to non-being. ... But in God there is no defect, but the highest perfection, as was shown above. Hence, the evil which consists in defect of action, or which is caused by defect of agent, is not reduced to God as to its cause."
There probably is a better Aquinas quote to see a logical Christian view, but Kabbalism has the concept that evil is fragmentation of God, since evil is not-God. A good source of basic Kabbalistic thought related to God, and its nature, is in God is a Verb , where God-ing can be seen as making God within time more whole by eliminating the fragmentation (evil).
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