Salvation, Atonement and Deification

The nature of salvation and atonement directly relates to your understanding of Evil, the Fall, and the story of Genesis.

I believe that the "problem" of evil is caused by misunderstanding of evil caused by the term itself. Therefore I believe that actions should not be considered as Good or Evil, but instead should be viewed as neutral with either postive or negative effects. It is not usually the action itself that is "good" or "evil" but it is the outcome of the action which is seen as "good" or "evil".
The problem of evil is further complicated by the interpretation of evil as a "thing", a tangible substance that must have been created, rather than as a concept or human notion. This problem is, in my opinion, further complicated by a literal reading of the Genesis story of the Fall. If one believes in the literal reading, then this leads to one of three conclusions:
God is evil
There is more than one power (ie God and Satan)
God is not all loving

In terms of atonement therefore, if God is evil, there can be no atonement. If there is more than one power (and ransom is paid to the devil) then the evil power has more power than God, and therefore God is not omnipotent.
If God is not all loving, can there really be any atonement?

Therefore, if actions are seen as postive or negative, then this removes the dilema, because evil and sin are not creations of God, or creations of another power, they simply are. Just like we have matter and anti matter, we have postive and negative. These humanistic labels are given to actions dependant upon the majority concensus.

But where is God on this scale? Does he have a light and a dark nature? Positive and negative? I believe, that for God to be GOD, he has to be outside of this scale in the same way that he is outside of time and space.

If actions range from White (positive) to Black (negative), human actions can be seen as ranging through a spectrum of Grey. Only God can be completely neutral because he is God. Therefore nothing God created is Postive or Negative.