Rob, there is a kind of logical problem here. You said: "It is not a power in and of itself because God is the source of all power and God can cut off conscious power to whomsoever he desires and when he desires it. When that happens, there won't be any beings who misuse power for evil."

Here God is an absolute over the "conscious power" of his creation. So he can take the consciousness away and stop the misuse of power for evil. By conscious power, I expect that you mean human consciousness. But if god just doesn't do so, ie., doesn't stop evil, what then?

This is kind of hard to swallow because you said, "God does not require an adversary to be considered good..." If so he must end "evil" right now, because there is no logical reason not to.

I would suggest to you that god has an adversary and it is not just bad "conscious power." As adversary, we have to consider things like volcanos, and earthquakes, and floods and droughts, and poverty and exploitation and all the "isms" like racism and terrorism and the list goes on and on and on...

Now people like Paul interpreted creation temporarliy and subject to change. Didn't he say something like creation is "groaning" as in Chilbirth. Well it is 2,000 years later so I would suggest that the temporary character you mention here: "It's only temporary. Evil has no power of its own because its a perverse expression and attitude of mind." just can't be right. It is time for the child to be born.

Tell you what, Rob, I will give you a week. If your all good god doesn't fix things up by then, I will suggest to you that you need a new theory!!

Have a great day! The clock is ticking.