CCC 296
Profession of Faith›SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS›CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER›Paragraph 4. THE CREATOR
We believe that God needs no pre-existent thing or any help in order to create, nor is creation any sort of necessary emanation from the divine substance. God creates freely "out of nothing": If God had drawn the world from pre-existent matter, what would be so extraordinary in that? A human artisan makes from a given material whatever he wants, while God shows his power by starting from nothing to make all he wants.
Footnotes
- Cf. Dei Filius, cann. 2-4: DS 3022-3024.
- Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800; cf. DS 3025.
- St. Theophilus of Antioch, Ad Autolycum II, 4: PG 6, 1052.
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