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Does God Made The World Ex Nihilo Or Out Of Nothing?

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The Church believes that God created the world ex nihilo or out of nothing. Multiple places in Sacred Scripture attest to this creation from nothing. We see from Genesis: “In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters” (Gen 1:1-2). Thus the Bible attests that there was nothing for God to create out of. Later in the Old Testament we see a more direct statement of God’s creation out of nothing: “I beg you, child, to look at the heavens and the earth and see all that is in them; then you will know that God did not make them out of existing things; and in the same way the human race came into existence” (2Macc 7:28).
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