| ### QUESTION 46 ### OF THE BEGINNING OF THE DURATION OF CREATURES ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### Next must be considered the beginning of the duration of creatures, about which there are three points for treatment: #### (1) Whether creatures always existed? #### (2) Whether that they began to exist in an article of Faith? #### (3) How God is said to have created heaven and earth in the beginning? ####  |