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What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

‘Only’ build like Bob.


“I won’t admit without a struggle that when I speak of God ‘uttering’ or ‘inventing’ the creatures I am ‘watering down the concept of creation.’  I am trying to give it, by remote analogies, some sort of context.  

I know that to create is defined as ‘to make out of nothing’, es nihilo.

But I take that to mean ‘not out of any pre-existing material’.

It can’t mean that God makes what God has not thought of, or that He gives His creatures any powers or beauties which He Himself does not possess. Why, we think that even human work comes nearest to creation when the maker has ‘got it all out of his own head.’

This act, as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man.


For we - even our poets and musicians and inventors - never, in the ultimate sense, make.


We only build.

We always have materials to build from.


All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their creator.”  C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm

…we always have materials to build from.

I have a GIVENNESS NOW to ‘only’ build like Bob.