What do we know about the role of God in creation?
Q211 · The Wondrous Creator, the Guardian of the World
If God created the world at a certain time, through His foreknowledge He also knew that He would create the world according to a certain plan. This He did, not out of some natural inevitability, but through His own free will; not caused by external factors, but through His
432 St. Basil of Caesarea, Hexaemeron 9.1 (NPNF II/8:101–102).
433 See St. Basil of Caesarea, Letters IV and Address to the Young Men on Greek Literature , trans., Roy Joseph Deferarri and Martin R. P. McGuire, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1934): pp. 363ff.
infinite goodness, His divine love, wisdom, and care that grants peace and joy to all the rational creation — both heavenly and human — who enjoy His grace, become enlightened by His Holy Spirit, taste the sweetness of the blessed life, and experience the surety of eternal life.