YES! No evil was created in anyone in their creation...GOD is holy and cannot create sinners by any means nor do evil.
but ImCo, when GOD said it was all very good a not good which HE created had already been fixed...Adam being alone. Adam looking for his mate among the animals shows there was a not good between them over GOD's choice of Eve for him. Before Adam ate he was already naked showing a not good in his moral state as eating did not cause his moral nakedness but only opened his eyes to it and caused him shame. Also at the time HE claimed everything was very good, the serpent and other demons were already fallen waiting for their chance to attack.
So very good had to mean good for HIS redemptive purposes, not morally good. So, yes I AGREE, everyone was created morally innocent with a free will to choose righteousness or evil but well before the garden story. By the time of the garden, the fall was over and some (those who never had faith in HIS name) had sinned the unforgivable sin of rebuking HIM as a liar and a false god and were condemned already and others (believers who sinned) who had already put their faith in HIM as their only GOD and saviour from sin rebelled over HIS call to come out from among the reprobate so they could be damned. This is mentioned in Jn 3:18...
that is the problem... adam was not created alone...
Adam's female was his own core, who God took out so they would be together...as an other, not Self... but they were not creature animals... but in glorified form, not the current corrupted body caused by the fall.
for one thing, they had no flesh with then a soul inside...
for npsh is the hebrew word, based on the term meaning body and also meaning soul...
after the fall that was not the case, and actually, the heathen greek theology has psyche or psuche, which has no body! But God's version of course meant we were NOT without a body... In Greek theology 'souls' of that type are entities, a daemon as Plato called it... and the flesh is not the same.... this change in psyche reflects their theology in their own language. the greek theology had entities but no concept of the body in terms of nepsh. its that old commentators and others maybe intentionally, blur the contexts and the realms... not distinguishing in translation, attributes of the satanic nations of demons and attributes of eden paradise, thus, they view psyche and nsph as interchangeable, a big mistake.. of course now in fallen situation we do resemble the flesh + psyche but at the change/rapture we will be restored to our original nature... so that fallen situation will not continue.
Hebrew has no such concept for us as a soul without body and uses npsh to reflect BOTH as ONE being.
For me, very good had nothing to do with redemption. It was perfect and for its purpose and all having His Signature upon it, His type of Nature, which satan was jealous of and wanted, hence the fall.
Yes thank you... Of course He is not evil or did he create that... Also, the greek concept of Lack as evil, which augustine espoused, is incorrect completely, but thats a different reply if you are interested. It was a way to excuse God because Augustine never understood what Evil truly is. I suspect you will not agree with all of this but please do share what you do relate to...
Only after the fall, Christ began to get us out, doing many things, throughout the old and new testament, when appearing to His people. Since the fall began following Christ, after all. a
Adam would not have looked among animals for his mate before the fall nor needed to...nor did he lack anything and neither was he alone without a mate.. For in God's version, He is covering of Male and Male of Female, and the males are in His image and the females in the image of His Feminine spirit. So the family context is important, our tribe, male and Female in their image.
And christ as leader of all the sons and His Spirit as the love and comfort of us.
Innocence is Eden Nature, His sweet nature... and of course doesnt mean lack of smartness... but we lost our gifts and attributes ..talents (=buried them in this dirt not made by God!) And that is what is meant by lost of innocence. Man Ruled the lower animals...he was not like them nor wanted to be. That is a scribal error, among others. Innocence but means simply, the evil realm, of serpents and demons has NOT conquered eden and plundered her!... Adam betrayed God and here we are in nature of the evil realm, matter and flesh... on an earth not made by God and this body not made by God.
This is the Death realm God warned of. Sin and Death, the carnal mind and its fleshbody.
God's realm, a real place called Eden, is of the nature of the Spirit of Life. Soon the sons will
restore Eden with Christ and rule with Christ and be restored the things the satanic realm stole.