Man’s Quest

MAN’S QUEST could have fashioned a finite universe. If God had not always existed, this transitory world could never have come into being. Therefore, the very existence of an ephemeral universe shows that there must be an eternal Creator. If the Creator had not existed eternally, He could never have existed at all, and if there had been no Creator, there would have been no creation either. If we assert that the world was created on a specific date, a Creator must have existed before that date. If we argue that this Creator was Himself created on some previous date, however, our claim can have no meaning. The Creator cannot Himself have been created; He always was. In His infiniteness, He has created a finite world. His existence and that of all mortal creatures depend on His immortality. Since God is immortal, He must also be absolute, for absoluteness is the greatest attribute of immortality. One cannot be found without the other. This world manifests God’s attributes, but its shortcomings and limitations show the manifestation