The Bible makes the point that creation was finished, and Mary Baker Eddy reiterates this in Science and Health. It just seems hard to comprehend that God would create once and never create anything again. Can you shed some light on this?—A READER IN WISCONSIN, US
A1 Inspired reasoning explains the apparent paradox that exists between the Biblical account of creation, which states that God's creation was finished, and your sense that creation must be an infinite activity that continuously unfolds. This reasoning is based on the statement that God finished heaven and earth on the seventh day of creation (see Gen. 2:2).
But what does heaven and earth signify? The prophet Isaiah shed some spiritual light on this question with these words, "Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool" (Is. 66:1). Here, Isaiah appears to establish that heaven and earth, as throne and footstool, represent the judgment seat of God (see Ps. 89:14, 15).
