Brilliant new apologetic fact

[orangebox21]

Having a discussion on another forum, I am astounded at the following argument:

God created everything, but he didn't create diseases/cancer etc because these aren't "things".

So we end up with both the claim that everything must have been designed due to blah blah blah, followed by "except all the bad bits which weren't designed".

I thought at first this guy was just a moron, but this argument seems to not even come from him. It is in the form "evil is not a thing" which is slightly better until you try to insert real life examples in, after which it again fails.

When you get arguments like this, you realise they are just trying to say anything to avoid having to think about it and hope it goes away.

God created all things. Generally when using this statement the Biblical theist is qualifying 'things' to refer to the material world. God created all [material] things. Given that evil is not material, it is not a 'thing' within the parameters of this definition. Obviously evil is a 'thing', just not a material one.

But what about love?

Love is not a 'creation' at all. According to the Biblical position, God is eternal, and God's nature is love. If God is eternal, then God's nature is eternal. If God's nature is eternal and love is His nature, then love is eternal.

Interestingly enough, the Bible itself says this is not the case:

Isaiah 45:7:
I form the light and create darkness,
I bring prosperity and create disaster;
I, the Lord, do all these things.

Evil is not the absence of good, and darkness is not the absence of light. Most importantly, God says he created it all.

Be careful about equivocating the word 'create'. Again the initial argument has to do with the creation of material things.

Isaiah's quote is true, but it does not say that God creates evil as you have claimed. It doesn't mention evil at all.