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consider the concept of ‘Nothing’, arguing that it is impossible to conceive
such a concept, as nothing does not exist. Non-existence by its own definition
cannot be and therefore there is no alternative to existence.
Like
Augustine, we too must wrestle with the aporia called time. Let us
propose we think of ‘nothing’ in order to think of time as beginning and
ending. To conceive of time in this way is to envisage it being surrounded by
nothingness. In order for there to be a time before time, this time would still
be a created time, since God is the maker of all time. By such calculation God
is the creator of nothing and yet, nothing cannot exist God is the creator of
nothing and yet, nothing cannot exist.
Augustine agonises on but faith is his saviour As to
Augustine’s resolution of his maker being outside the infinite, and outside
eternity, one might enquire, in Augustinian fashion, that if God is outside
time, how then can he intervene in a realm in which he palpably is not?
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