Infinite Space and Time Before Creation
Augustine addresses the speculative question: why did God create a world when He did, and not sooner? He retorts that the same vanity appears if one asks why He placed it where it is and not elsewhere. To imagine infinite time before creation is as meaningless as imagining infinite space outside the world. God is the Lord of time and space, not their subject. The creation was an act of His free, eternal will, not a response to external necessity.
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