Dr Craig, the title of this essay in the blog is, God created the universe from nothing, or did he is from Bob Seyden sticker of the

cross-examined blog we've interacted with Bob on several occasions he always

writes about interesting things and is a good

writer you've written on this topic with Paul Copan yes Paul and I published a

book several years ago called Creation out of Nothing with Baker.

And in it, Paul has four chapters

that are dedicated to a detailed exegesis

of the old and New Testament passages concerning

Kriati O X Nehelo and then an examination of Jewish sources outside the Bible

as well as the early church father. So what we have here from Bob in just

two typewritten pages is more fully unfolded by Paul in these chapters in our book, Creation Out of Nothing.

Bob sets the case out by saying at the beginning,

The Christian idea of Creation Ex Nihilo that God created the universe from nothing

is a doctrine within many denominations. The problem appears when Christians try to find it

in the

Jesus six-day creation story. It's not there.

Like so many confidently stated doctrines, the Bible doesn't cooperate.

Letting the Bible speak for itself exposes the unsupported claims.

Now let it be said right away that the doctrine of creation out of nothing doesn't rest

upon just one Bible verse like Genesis 1. It rests upon the testimony of the entirety of

scripture old and new testament and I think when you consider scripture in its

entirety it does teach creation out of nothing. And I do think

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