The Hebrew word translated as “evil” (
ra‘) in the King James Version of
Isaiah 45:7 has two applications in the Bible.
It means both. God is Sovereign. Everything evil is commanded by God. It was His will to create a man out of dirt. Adam ate from the Tree of the KNOWLEDGE of Good and Evil. The Tree didn't make him evil. It gave him the KNOWLEDGE of evil. There was no poison in the fruit. It didn't change his human nature of composition. It was a mind-meld. By his disobedience he through God understood the evil of his act and God proceeded accordingly.
You believe in the reprobation of man. However, your belief is that sin is an act, not a nature. Did Jesus die for the sin-ful acts of His people and did we receive/imputed His righteous acts, or did He die for our fallen, sinful nature and we are imputed His Righteous nature. Peter agrees it was His Divine nature imputed to His people.
ALL that God does is in accordance to His good pleasure.
If God just up and created a sinful being as a Righteous God this would impugn His character.
But before God created a sinful being a lamb was slain from the foundation of the world.
Why?
So that a Righteous God
could create an unrighteous being.
Since there is ONLY ONE God, there is NONE like Him, and He gives His glory to NO ONE, what does that leave Adam?
Less than God.
This means "missing the mark" of the glory of God.
The KJV word "harmatia" is translated "sin."
Adam was created "missing the mark" of the glory of God BECAUSE there is ONLY ONE GOD.
If Adam possessed any one attribute of Deity he would by necessity MUST possess ALL attributes of Diety or he would fall short of the glory of God. That word is "harmatia"/sin.
The ONLY PERSON that can stand before a Holy God is a Holy Son and Holy Spirit.
EVERYONE ELSE falls short.
Adam sinned because he was a sinner. He is not a sinner because he sinned.