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Creation Ex Nihilo Jul 19th 2011, 10:01 The first verse of Genesis, which is the first verse of the Bible, has God creating the heavens and the earth. Christians believe this is the beginning of God creating all of existence; but if this is the origin of existence, how did God exist in the first place? Christians believe it makes sense God to "exist" outside of "existence" and still create all "existence," but how does that make sense in any way?   Creation Ex Nihilo Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Our notion of "existence" means to exist in some place rather than another, at some point in time rather than another, and with certain qualities rather than others. How many of these can be said to be true of the "God" which Christians believe in? Perhaps the last of those three, though even that is a bit debatable.   Existence and the Universe Within the context of the universe, it might be possible to describe some "god" as "existing," even given supernatural qualities. Absent the context of space and time, though, what does it even mean to say that God "exists"? In what way is it comparable to saying that a cat or a table "exists"? What was God doing "before" creating the universe â€" twiddling its "thumbs"? Napping? Watching sit-coms from the future? Many Christians may try to insist that the answers to such questions are mysteries and that the underlying doctrines must be accepted on faith, but the lack of any reasonable explanation makes this difficult to swallow â€" especially given how hard they try to sell this as being more reasonable than science. Where does any aspect of the creation story come anywhere close to the empirical accuracy or reasonableness of any scientific field?   Explaining Creation Ex Nihilo What do you think about the idea of divine creation "ex nihilo"? Do you agree that this passage describes something absurd and silly, even granting the existence of the supernatural, or is there some way to read this part of the Bible so that it sounds sensible and reasonable? If you think you can make the Genesis story of the creation of existence out of nothing sound reasonable, your solution cannot add anything new that's not already in the stories and cannot leave out any details that the Bible provides.

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