God created the universe

the universe X Nielo out of nothing.

The idea that God created the universe out of nothing

shouldn't be controversial because at one point in time

there was literally nothing else except God in existence.

No hang on a second at one point in time that's not that's not going to work because

because time didn't exist either nothing was the only thing that

existed no no that's not that sounds a bit like nothing is a thing that's not right

is it my point is that before the universe was brought into being and before

God created the heavenly host of divine non-human beings, more on them and other time,

all that existed was God. There was nothing else.

And when I say nothing, I don't mean empty space, like the air in the middle of a ring donut,

or the contents of my wallet, if I take my daughter to Disney World, I mean nothing.

No thing. I mean nothing, nothing. Long before the universe was brought into being and the

heavenly hosts were brought into existence. Nothing existed. Just God. That is the profound level of nothingness that existed or rather didn't exist.

Aristotle says that nothing is what rocks dream about.

Ah, we clever people say, but rocks don't dream.

Exactly, says Aristotle.

Other ancient near-eastern creation stories, for example those from Mesopotamia or Egypt,

featured gods who create things out of material that was already in existence in much the same way as you and I create things. But when the living God

created the universe, he created it X Nihilo out of nothing. There are other ideas about how the universe came into being of course.

Advocates of the Big Bang theory for example also believe in the universe coming into being

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