And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good (Genesis 1:31). God is a being who is active even in being. In a gracious demonstration of his will, he brought forth creation, a reality steeped in profound meaning and significance. My purpose is to draw out some implications from God’s…

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). The presumption of the author is that before there was creation, there was God. Beginning with that reality, my intention is not to fabricate an answer to the question posed by critics in Augustine’s Confessions 11.12.14: “What was God doing before he made…