God did not give man an evil inclination. God gave man a good inclination and the free will to choose to do good or not.Maimonides said God did not directly create evil or had the direct intention to produce evil.Why would you ignore the words "it cannot be said" or what he said directly after that?Also notice his choice of the word 'directly',
in the first line "He directly creates evil".
It must be admitted as a fact that it cannot be said of God that He directly creates evil, or He has the direct intention to produce evil; this is impossible His works are all perfectly good.
Seriously, you're that simple minded,
you thought I didn't see the 'cannot'??
I think you don't even understand that you're quoting the exact sentences
that point exactly to what you intend to deny.
Tell me, does the sentence connote evil is not produced?
Which is the opposite of giving man an evil inclination which would have been intended to produce evil.
First part correct,
but you're wrong about the intent in the second part.
In other words, your wrong conclusion,
doesn't negate the fact that G-d gave you an evil inclination.
It must be admitted as a fact that it cannot be said of God that He directly creates evil, or He has the direct intention to produce evil; this is impossible His works are all perfectly good. He only produces existence, and all existence is good. God is perfect goodness, and that all that comes from Him is absolutely good. Consequently the true work of God is all good, since it is existence. ALL the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom. The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them. Man himself is the author of this class of evils. The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because He has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils.