QUESTION 46

OF THE BEGINNING OF THE DURATION OF CREATURES

(In Three Articles)

Next must be considered the beginning of the duration of creatures,

about which there are three points for treatment:

(1) Whether creatures always existed?

(2) Whether that they began to exist is an article of Faith?

(3) How God is said to have created heaven and earth in the

beginning?

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