God the Creator (Genesis 1:1-5, 26-31)

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. *In the beginning, that is, in the beginning of time As to time, it, too, was created simultaneously with the procession of the creative word. Time is the neces­sary mode of existence of the creature. To it, there­fore, is not to be subscribed an existence outside of the will and the creative power of the Almighty. For then time were eternal as God. The expression in the beginning also contains in it the idea that the creation will have a...