II.1 chapter 4

What does the Bible say about God and the world?
The Bible tells us that God has made the world. The prophet who said that was not a witness of those things, however; but the Wisdom of God, through which everything is made, and who is in the heart of who believes, spoke within, without sound, to the prophets of his works.

We know that there is an alternative for the theory of creation: the theory of eternal repetition of what is in the world, or one could call that eternal creation. How could an unchangeable eternal God make the world at a particular time: how can such a unique (non-repeated) change be possible, if his will never changes (as Epicurus points out)?
First, it is hard to deny that God created the world, because the world is that beautiful, that it cannot exist through something else than God, who has unutterable and invisible greatness, and is unutterable and invisible beauty too.
Second, it is anyway impossible to deny all unique (non-repeated) changes, and say every change is repeated from eternity; because then there never could be any everlasting and complete happiness (but only recurring periods of happiness and unhappiness).
We therefore believe the unchangeable and eternal God did not change his will when making the world.