So you interpret "from" or "since" the beginning as Genesis 1:1's Bereshith? I see it as meaning at some indefinite earliest point (since the garden to be specific). I say this because their was none to lie to before mankind and none to murder but the persuasion into his lie in the garden brought death to mankind.
Here is the problem (and perhaps you do not have one with this). IF God is the creator of evil in the sense that evil and doing of evil is His irresistible will, THEN that means when Hitler did all that he did it was God willing him to do it and thus Hitler is not really guilty and all his atrocities were nothing more than Hitler doing God's will. Hitler was thus obedient to God's will for him. Sin is a violation of God's laws right? But in this view Sin is lawfully willed? When a man is tempted it is God who made him tempted and intentionally placed the temptation in his path! And when one gives into temptation they are actually doing God's will? Thus it is God's will when the rapist rapes, or when the murderer murders? I disagree...
When God created beings with their own forms of limited free will the potential to obey or disobey was present. True obedience would not be true obedience if one were just a programmed robot or a puppet having their strings pulled against their own will. Love is like this. For love to be truly love it must exist in alongside the possibility to hate. Satan "rebelled"...this very concept implies him doing what God did not will him to do. When God says I set before you death or life choose life, it is not some cruel joke or a lie...if choice was not present the offer is a lie (and God is not a man that He should lie, nor does God tempt any man...)
In His love
Paul
I think we generally have trouble understanding someone (or something) as awesome as God with our relative minds, coupled with the fact that we've been given a misleading image of God from those who are also ignorant of his plans and purposes, let alone grasp his omnipotence. After all, how can our carnal and relative minds fully comprehend an absolute spiritual being?
Let me explain things this way- When the military creates obstacle courses and subjects soldiers to severe conditions and punishing trials, do their trainers want them to fail or succeed? Do they have to love the evils those obstacles bring? No. These things are intended to train soldiers so they survive on the battle field.
God created an adversary so that he could raise sons and daughters in his image. When he put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the midst of the garden, it was part of the obstacle course in Adam and Eve's training by which they stumbled and fell. Their choice to be independent, and thus separated from God, is what brought man down. Adam wanted to be God, and he took the bait the serpent placed before him. It was a painful and eternal lesson. On the other hand, Adam and Eve never repented either.
Hebrews 5:8- "Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things he suffered."
Read Matthew 13:44-50. This is what God is after. And He will finally achieve that in Revelations 21 and 22. He will have his bride made of people who are transformed into his image who were purged in extreme heat like gold purified in the fire. (Rev. 3:18-19).
Regarding the Jews, remember what they said when they chose Barabbas over Jesus? They said "Let the sin fall on us and on our children." Many believe the Jews cursed themselves, not to mention their rebellious attitude they still harbour today as a people, which led to their slaughter. Read the books of Chronicles to see how God dealt with Israel and Judah. No different.
