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Roman Catechism
“Creator”
The necessity of having previously imparted to the faithful a knowledge of the omnipotence of God will appear from what we are now about to explain with regard to the creation of the world. The wondrous production of so stupendous a work is more easily believed when all doubt concerning the immense power of the Creator has been removed.
For God formed the world not from materials of any sort, but created it from nothing, and that not by constraint or necessity, but spontaneously, and of His own free will. Nor was He impelled to create by any other cause than a desire to communicate His goodness to creatures. Being essentially happy in Himself He stands not in need of anything, as David expresses it: I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.53
As it was His own goodness that influenced Him when He did all things
whatsoever He would, so in the work of creation He followed no external form or
model; but contemplating, and as it were imitating, the universal model
contained in the divine intelligence, the supreme Architect, with infinite
wisdom and power—attributes peculiar to the Divinity—created all things in the
beginning. He spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were created.54
53. Ps 15:2
54. Ps 32:9