It is commonly said that there must be opposition in all things. This concept of balancing good and evil directly contradicts the concept of an All- Creating God. If a being has 100% free creative will to enact on a blank slate of a universe, then evil itself must have been created knowingly. These forces of good and evil could not have been in place before the creation event, for if they had been then God is not the beginning and end of all things. This leads to 2 conclusions since we are dealing with absolutes that contradict one another.

1. God really is Alpha and Omega, and created evil on purpose. In this case, our gratitude towards any saving grace from sin is misplaced in a God who knowingly placed us in needless danger of losing our eternal happiness in the first place. This would mean God is not loving, and created a punishment/reward system for our actions based on his arbitrary rules that he could have set up any way he liked. This would warrant a fearful and mistrustful relationship between himself and his creations, as opposed to a loving relationship with a God that is full of grace and wants all his creations to find salvation.

2. God is good, and is trying to save us from external forces of evil that he has no control over, and therefore our worship in an all-powerful God who controls every aspect of the universe is misplaced. While this would warrant the loving relationship of a God who just wants to see us succeed, it still raises the separate question of "Who makes the rules"? And if one would like to uphold the exclusively non-secular idea that someone did, indeed, consciously create these forces, then why are placing our trust in a God who is not able to control these forces of good and evil that determine our entire future?

Option 1 laregly depicts the God of the Old Testment and non-christian Abrahmic religions, while option 2 fits closer with the New Testament teachings of salvation from evil through a loving God (Christian Viewpoint). The argument has been presented by the christian side thats Option 1s depiction of God changed once Christ came and fulfilled the law of the Old Testament, (thus introducing the concept of a loving God and rewriting the rules). This argument does not answer the question presented by both opposing concepts.

With both options 1and 2, the question of HOW good and evil was originally established at the time of the creation event directly disrupts the narrative of a Creator of All that deserves our trust, love, fear and worship all at once.