I've just read "You can't create something out of nothing" in an answer. But can God?

Answer 1

What Schneb said is very true. That word is very unique, and it indicates two things.

One is G-d created the universe out of nothing (Also he created the nothing which didn't exist previously)

Two G-d is still sustaining the Universes creation. If he stopped doing so the universe would cease to exist.

Answer 2

Concept of nothing belongs to humans. NOthing can only work if there is already something exists. NOthing in its self is existence.
So Nothing existed as long as GOD existed which already is something some how. Space is not empty, just because very talented Cristians followers can't see anything in space it does not mean that there is nothing. Space is already something. WE just can't udnerstand.

And i like when Bible saying GOD create Man in his own image. Imagine in all that NOthing for ethernity till GOD create time he was walking alone in all that nothing:)
Therefore GOD exists.

Answer 3

you cannot create something out of nothing. Nothing is simply a concept of humans. everything existed even before the big bang. The big bang just inflated everything and caused a series of reactions.
As for god, if he can create anything, then can he create a rock that he cannot lift? and if so then he is not all powerful, and if he can not....then he is STILL not all powerful

Answer 4

god contains all aspects, percievable and imperceptable. god never created anything out of nothing.
our senses can't pick that stuff up. we can't even use our whole brain.
that nothing that god created out of is really something that we can't percieve.
we, a creature incapable of useing the whole brain that god gave us, question the existance of something just because we cannot percieve it. now that's maddness. has it ever occurred to anyone that the human race could have a mental defect, as a race; and as a whole or did we just get such a new and fancy model brain that we can't figure out how to use it; and we can't figure out which buttons to push to make it work right? have you ever gotten into a new car and couldn't find all the switches and buttons because of all the electronic crap?
perhaps god, in it's infinate wisdom, will see fit to perpetrate some kind of upgrade to get these noggin computers working properly.

come to think of it i think erik fromm the psyco analyst wrote something in the 1960s having to do with: can a society be sick.?

Answer 5

If I may say, what is deemed impossible by Man is only possible with God, and if God can't create something out of nothing, then you wouldn't be here to ask this question.

Answer 6

Yes. God had to have. At some point, either the Big Bang or God must have created everything from nothing. I personally choose God. :)

Answer 7

Their answer was "You can't create something out of nothing". They are saying You, as a mortal man cannot. God however is well, God. You really cannot limit his power and ability.

Answer 8

Genesis 1:1, the word "created" is the Hebrew word Bara which means "Something out of nothing."

Answer 9

God does not create "out of", but through.

"Nothing" does not exist, that is why it is called "nothing".

God does not create the way we think of as creating. God creates through an "inner" (quotes because there is no "outer") act upon Itself (Himself, Herself, whatever...).

Answer 10

I can't find any precise meaning in the statement you read. First, if we restrict the discussion to such items as clay pots, we could correctly state that people always make clay pots from clay and that clay isn't 'nothing'.

We observe much more in our universe than clay pots, however. When you observe things at small scales, nothing 'comes from' anything. Observing a physical state does not imply that it 'came from' anywhere.