God is eternal, unchanging and good
Christianity attempted to suggest that the universe is a theatre of change and imperfection, ad at the same time to teach that god is prefect and unchanging. Those men who sought to reconcile Christianity with Greek philosophy were known as Apologists. They taught that the universe contains traces of something different from pure matter and thus a point to a God is eternal, unchanging and good. This god is the first cause of everything in the universe, the creator of the universe. For them, the ideas of Piato and the forms of Aristotle become God. God is the external and abiding principle in all change, the eternal pattern which never changes. He is the unity of all forms, all ideas. Through divine emanations, he has created the world and everything in the world, in so far it is a part of god strives to be more like God and try to return to Him. The creator fashioned the world matter which he created out of nothing. The pattern god the world is in his mind. God, he taught, created matter out of nothing and then created everything in the universe.