About trying to understand one aspect of evil

 My beliefs

• Nothing created 1) directly by God, ie the universe, or 2) by us, indirectly by God, is of itself, evil. It is intrinsically good.
• All created things can be 1) used correctly, 2) misused by mistake or 3) abused, ie deliberately misused.

Some examples are a mobile phone, nuclear fuel, food, recreation. The possible list is endless.

A mobile phone is a miracle of modern invention when used for all its correct purposes. It is highly complex, thus very easy to use mistakenly.

To use it to send any kind of illicit, harmful or unkind messages is abuse and can and does have evil effects as we know all too well.

Any created thing can be used in any of these ways. Maybe even it could be said that the greater the possible benefits, the greater the capacity for abuse.

My belief is that evil occurs when good things are used for evil purposes. This is, of course, only applicable to things and goes no way towards the evil caused between peoples, hurt, cruelty, war, violence of any kind.