His vital issue starts with Genesis and the possibility that God made the universe. Genesis states that God made the universe. However, that recommends that there was a period before the making of the universe. That would imply that God existed in time, and was in this way constrained by it. Here, Augustine utilizes the metaphorical, or otherworldly, translation of the Bible that was first instructed to him by Bishop Ambrose. Augustine insists that God didn 't make the world at a given minute, for God the concept of time is nonexistent. The universe was created in a moment and is occurring forever since. The reason we can 't comprehend this is because individuals exist on the planet, which is bound by time. God didn 't begin things at a certain point - he essentially is the time when everything starts and returns to. God is perpetual. In light of Augustine 's constant challenges with the Biblical book of Genesis, the comprehension of the nature of time was important to protect the way of the God of Catholicism. This need to guard the sovereignty of the Supreme was also the primary reason for molding Augustine 's quest in this
His vital issue starts with Genesis and the possibility that God made the universe. Genesis states that God made the universe. However, that recommends that there was a period before the making of the universe. That would imply that God existed in time, and was in this way constrained by it. Here, Augustine utilizes the metaphorical, or otherworldly, translation of the Bible that was first instructed to him by Bishop Ambrose. Augustine insists that God didn 't make the world at a given minute, for God the concept of time is nonexistent. The universe was created in a moment and is occurring forever since. The reason we can 't comprehend this is because individuals exist on the planet, which is bound by time. God didn 't begin things at a certain point - he essentially is the time when everything starts and returns to. God is perpetual. In light of Augustine 's constant challenges with the Biblical book of Genesis, the comprehension of the nature of time was important to protect the way of the God of Catholicism. This need to guard the sovereignty of the Supreme was also the primary reason for molding Augustine 's quest in this