Why does God permit evil?

To Jason: Why would God who claims to love man create an angel whom he foreknew would become the source of ALL EVIL... set up creation with the object by which man would fall from grace... then drop satan into the garden to tempt man?

why would a loving god create the very system of atonement that would nail his boy to a cross?

your god is f'd up man... f'd up and brutal. he is a blood thirsty, illogical ghoul who not only created sin.. he sanctions its continued existence.

Answer = Who is God? Everyone has the wrong answer.
I have a hypothesis: I am beginning to think that
there is only one way that God could exist and that
is for God to experience. For God to know all, God
would have to experience all - the good, the bad,
the ugly and the beautiful. Also, Christians claim
that one of the attributes of God is omnipresence,
but have they really thought out what that means?
If God is everywhere (which gives Him the ability
to know everything), God would also have to BE
everything --- that includes us! Therefore, we
must be a micro God - god with a small "g".
Our ability to create reality is exactly equal to
our ability to affect the space around us and the
people we influence. This is the exact same power
God wields - His power is limited to His ability to
affect the space around Him; ergo, all space and his
ability to influence the people around Him; ergo, all
people. Sin is simply not recognizing that you are God;
that your power over reality is the same that Jesus had,
that your power to heal is the same as Jesus had, that
your power to perform miracles is the same that Jesus
had. All the evil in the world is not created by God -
it is Allowed by God - we create it by not realizing
that our power over creation is equivalent to the power
Jesus had - only now we operate by default. The reality
we create is equal to the poop we put into our minds,
the nasty beliefs we hold, our attitudes to ourselves
and others and the degree of love we hold in our
hearts - first to ourselves because only then can we
truly love another. When we fix all that, Earth will
become Paradise - a New Eden.