this we, as Christians, hold to the notion of creation into nothing. We distinctly affirm that God’s eternal idea of the universe did not imply the eternal creation of the universe. Quite obviously we have involved ourselves in difficulty here. We have maintained that God’s knowledge of himself is analytical. We have said repeatedly that there was and can be no non-being over against God as in any sense determinative of God. Thus the rails would seem to be prepared for a run into the pantheistic