Can making a good thing be evil?

Can it be possible that the act of making something is bad (evil, sinful) even though the thing made is, in itself, good?

I contend "yes," and this can come about in several ways. The act of making the otherwise good thing could be sinful in the motive under which it was made; it could be sinful in the means by which it was made; it could be sinfully imprudent in the context in which it was made, depending on the particularities. That last point could even lead to the situation in which the thing in itself, qua the thing that it is, is good and yet its continued use and presence is evil.

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A-theory? B-theory? Really, what's the difference?

I recently listened to a friendly discussion on Trent Horn's podcast, The Counsel of Trent, between Horn and William Lane Craig. During the discussion, of course, the Kalam Cosmological Argument for the existence of God came up, and with it a discussion of philosophical "proofs" for the impossibility of an infinite past, as well as the various theories of time.

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