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According to the Old Testament, God is evil. All evil that occurs in the world is the fault of God.

"I form the alight, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
-Isaiah 45:7 (The King James version replaces "evil" with "disaster", but it's the same idea of where the torment of humanity comes from)
http://scriptures.lds.org /en/isa/45

The idea of a Satan, the adversity, had already been but that was not a personification of evil, it meant that life is not easy. The devil did not come about until the New Testament, he was made up so, of course, that negates the entire Christian faith because as we know from the Garden of Eden when God tempted Adam and Eve with the fruit of the tree of knowledge, "Don't eat this, guys. I'm just gonna set it right here in the middle of the garden and tell you that it's the sweetest fruit in the universe." - God is the one who does the tempting. Therefor Jesus could not have been tempted by adversity because He was the living God, and adversity was a part of Him. There's no such thing as the devil.

God allows evil things to happen because God helps those who help themselves. If an evil man helps himself become evil, God will help him too. If a good man helps himself to do good, God will help him.

The reason that God allows evil to happen is because the people who want good don't try to make good happen, they beg God to let it happen.

If good people actually went out and loved their neighbors as themselves, there would be no evil.

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