Every god claims in some fashion to be Alpha and Omega, the source of everything and the end toward which everything is moving, the deep past and the deep future.
Only the Triune God can actually be Alpha and Omega. A monadic God can perhaps be Alpha (though I’m doubtful), the source. But he cannot also be Omega unless Omega is just another way of saying Alpha. A monadic god can do nothing better than return to the beginning.
Because God is Triune, He can be the source of all, and He can also be the end of all, and be the end differently than He is the source. TZhe difference within the Triune life opens “space” for Alpha and Omega to be continuous but not identical; it opens space for Omega to be a non-identical repetition of Alpha.
And thus a Triune God alone could have created the temporal world we know, because in time as we experience it every Omega is different from every Alpha.
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