>>14001976Read "City of God". Nothing is not the same as non-existence as God created out of nothing all that is (good) and God is what sustains existence. Since God is good, evil must be what creates nothing, sustains nothing, and leads to destruction and non-existence. Therefore nothing can not be non-existence as then God would have created all from evil which would deny his nature.
Or put into math speak: an empty set is not the same as no set. One of the fundamental axioms all mathematics and science is built on which seldom credits Augustine.