Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
‘In the beginning God created.’ It is absolutely necessary that things begun in time be also brought to an end in time. If they have a beginning in time, have no doubt about the end. Really, to what end are geometry and arithmetical investigations, the diligent study of solids and the much-discussed astronomy all very laborious vanity directed, if those who pursue them have believed that this visible world is co-eternal with God, the Creator of all things; if they attribute to a circumscribed world which possesses a material body the same glory as to the limitless and invisible Nature; and if they are not able to understand even this much, that the whole of anything whatsoever, whose parts are subject to corruption and change, must also at some time submit to the same changes as its parts? ....
For more, see Basil of Caesarea on the error of believing that creation is co-eternal with God.
For more, see Basil of Caesarea on the error of believing that creation is co-eternal with God.
