So God not only creates every created being, but every created being that continues to exist does so in virtue of God's continuously maintaining it in existence.
For Aquinas, universum was synonymous with creatura, there being a radical difference between creative being and created being, a distinction that Aquinas highlights by equating the totality of created being with the universe.
A created being that cannot turn off self-illumination is in as much danger as is a created being that cannot turn on self-illumination.
Midgard, also spelled Midgardr (Old Norse: Middle Abode), also called Manna-Heim ("Home of Man"), in Norse mythology, the Middle Earth, the abode of mankind, made from the body of the first created being, the giant Aurgelmir (Ymir).
He hoped a general council of the church would solve the problem created in the Eastern church by Arianism, a heresy first proposed by Arius of Alexandria that affirmed that Christ is not divine but a created being.
By affirming that the Holy Spirit proceeds not only "from the Father" (as the original creed proclaimed) but also "from the Son," the Spanish councils intended to condemn Arianism, which held that the Son was a created being.
