There can only be one transcendent, always existing intelligent being because if you introduce another transcendent entity, they would be de facto (in fact, in reality; though not formerly recognized by all) competing with each other and thus, neither would be transcendent over the other. But the very nature of being uncreated, always existing, from everlasting, before time, and infinitely greater is that of transcendence: transcending all things, both time and space; not just some things.
Will you receive Jesus as the creator of all things now, who with the Father and the Holy Ghost, the One True [Triune] God, as the uncaused cause of all things?
"All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made" (John 1.3).
God did NOT make beings to do evil, but certainly created the option to do evil so that we have true free will.
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things" (Is. 45.7). To be understood more clearly the NLT reads,
"I am the one who creates the light and makes the darkness. I am the one who sends good times and bad times. I, the LORD, am the one who does these things."
Why would God send bad times? Because it is the proper response to evil and sinfulness.
For example, God hardened the Pharaoh's heart, after the Pharaoh hardened his own heart first and in so doing increases the likelihood the Pharaoh would repent without forcing the Pharaoh to repent or infringe on his free will.
And we all know what happened during the 10 plagues as well as what happened to Pharaoh's army in the Gulf of Aqaba.
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