Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is the origin of the universe. There were no eye-witnesses around to see the Creation. God asks in Job 38:4, “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.” But, God left His fingerprints within creation in the impossible anthropomorphic position, processes and elements on earth, and the irreducible complexity of life, the Cell, DNA in fine-tuning, perfect harmony, unbelievable stability. Romans 1:18-20 says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.”
Everything in this present universe was brought into existence literally out of nothing by the good pleasure and will of Almighty God. Hebrews 11:3 tells us, “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.” God created everything out of nothing. Romans 4:17 additionally infers, “in the presence of the God in whom … calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Psalm 33:6-9 declares, “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.” I read that when God speaks something into existence from nothing, He is truly the great first cause and source. Nothing cannot beget nothing. Back in 1974, Billy Preston had the hit song “Nothing from nothing”, which stated “nothing from nothing leaves nothing; you got to have something”. But, what is nothing? It’s not a void or a vacuum; it’s nothing at all. Webster’s dictionary defines the word as : Not any thing; not any being or existence; a word that denies the existence of any thing; non-entity; opposed to something. The world was created from nothing.
I read that we need to understand that creation is neither “out of” a pre-existing material and not “into” a pre-existing place. We must oppose both the notion of an eternal matter and the notion of an eternal receptacle. Instead of saying that God created the world from nothing, it is better to say that God spoke and things appeared, including space and time for all created things to occupy and in which to function. When we construct creation out of nothing in this way, it require no definition of “nothing”. Thus, since there is no other alternative, the universe was not made from something – it was made from nothing, and God did it all with a word.
John 1:1-3 proclaims, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”
In Christ, Brian
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