To expand ...
Actually it's a way of claiming "things" have always existed(been created), but could have been in other forms, and might again be in other forms.
Not intending to play semantics, but it's my variation on the concept/theme of the OP.
A perspective/position that everything has to have "been created" even "God" does beg the question,"What was before that?"
I was born and raised in the Christian religion and the concept of eternal consequences for one lifetime's actions didn't resonate well with me, on two counts.
1) How can "things" have a finite beginning/start point and then go on forever, never an end point ? It seems to me the definition of eternity is "no beginning, no end" so there must have been something before "creation", before the Big Bang. With the Big Bang essentially starting a process of matter converting to energy, it would seem logical that once nearly everything is energy, some other process might be set off, hence the Big (Complete ?) Collapse, perhaps back into The Singularity.
"Creation" then becomes another term, expression for change in structure~substance~nature~whatever. Creation is now one of many various events that occur in the cycle of existence.
2) If killing another person, murder, is a "Mortal Sin" that results in "Eternal Damnation in Hell", how is it that the same consequence(reward) is handed out for more than one murder ??? Shouldn't someone like Adolph Hitler, responsible for millions of deaths/murders have a consequence proportionate to the deed ????
This is where I settled on the concept of karma, where consequences of actions are proportional to deeds done. Kill one person you then have a next lifetime where you are receiving a similar experience in that lifetime, being murdered by someone else. Kill a million people and you will have to experience a million similar deaths in a million future lifetimes.
This to me seems the more reasonable, balanced "reaction to an action"; consequence of deed(s) done.
This chain of thought/reasoning/logic then leads to a third aspect, that since one can't get something from nothing, everything in existence is made of, from the substance of the "Creator". Hence what is meant when one says that;
3) "God is everything; everything is God".
Which implies the Creator is neither Good nor Evil, but both. Or "created" both Good and Evil, which are expressions of a Universe that is made of polarities. Which could be one way of explaining why there are so many religions and "types" of "God".
Also, thinking on this/these concepts can give one a headache.
"Where did it come from?" ~ Itself
