How does nothing become something?

Question

"According to most creation stories, out of primal Nothingness, the All or Everything emerges or emanates. Paradoxically, everything seems to come from nothing."

How does nothing become something?

Answer 1

Perhaps it wasn't nothing from something but something from something. What if the universe is just an infinate series of rebirths and deaths. The universe has been expanding and contracting forever. We just live in the current "expansion". So if there is none of this infinate universe, and a grand designer is behind everything. You have to then ask the next question, who created the grand designer?

Answer 2

Genesis says:

1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Void can either mean 'nothingness', or 'empty - without content'. At the time that Genesis was written, there was no concept of 'nothingness'. The idea of 'zero' was not even invented until several thousand years later, in India. The concept that is being presented here is that the earth already existed at the time of God's creation... but all that it consisted of was a mass of water, empty... without.

Answer 3

There are seven basic proofs God exists. Properly, they belong in a separate book all by themselves, but I will cover them briefly here.
(1) That there is a great CREATION is obvious. The very fact of the existence of THINGS; the universe, the solar system, the earth and all myriad forms of life upon it, demands a CREATOR!
(2) The existence of great, immutable, powerful LAWS (and I speak of the "laws" governing the physical universe; the laws of science and chemistry; laws governing the action of water in its three states; the cleavage and fracturing properties of minerals; gravity, inertia, isostasy, etc., etc.). The existence of these great laws demands a lawgiver!
(3) The intricacy of complex design; whether the feathers on the wing of a bird; the eye of a fly; the breathing apparatus of a dolphin; billions of intricately-designed snowflakes; your own muscular, skeletal, digestive and circulatory systems-etc., etc., requires a great DESIGNER!
(4) LIFE exists. Life in myriad forms. You and I both know that life only comes from preexisting life! This is called the "law of biogenesis." Life demands a great LIFE GIVER!
(5) Life only comes from preexisting life of the same kind! Thus, there is procreation, and the sustaining of life on our planet; the constant recycling of falling trees, rotting vegetation; the bacteria which break it down to become food for the insects which are food for dozens of other creatures, which are in turn food for larger creatures, which are in turn food for man; the cyclical character of our symbiotic environment which, like a gigantic machine was once "wound up," and is gradually running down, requires a sustaining force. Inherent within this proof are the laws governing the "conservation" of energy" and the laws of thermodynamics. It is obvious our universe has a great sustaining force-a GREAT SUSTAINER!
(6) Fulfilled prophecies, of which there are dozens, with dozens more yet to be fulfilled, constitute a great proof of Almighty God. Even simple high school or beginning college-level Bible handbooks such as Halley's, or the Angus Bible Handbook contain fascinating proofs from the spade of archeologists corroborating the prophecies of men who foretold the collapse of great empires and the emergence of others centuries and centuries beyond their own lifetime. Now, we are able to look back at such men as Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and others, and see what they foretold actually HAPPENED exactly as they foretold it!
Many of the biblical prophecies are in process of being fulfilled. The serious student of biblical archeology knows that it is axiomatic that, wherever archeology reveals information about ancient civilizations, it always corroborates the biblical record, never refutes it!
(7) The final proof-one which dyed-in-the-wool disbelievers will doubtlessly scoff at-is answered prayer! Of course. God does not answer the prayers of skeptics and disbelievers. However, those individuals who have experienced the answer to PRAYER; those who have been healed of their sicknesses and diseases, who have actually seen miracles performed, are no longer doubting, but believing. Answered prayer is definitely a proof that there is a God who can hear. and answer!

Answer 4

You are thinking to hard Guy.
The Bible says that God made man from dust.
Okay, just because there is nothing else listed, doesn't mean he didn't use anything else.
However, man did not become a living soul, until God gave him the breath of life.
So in other words, he was a non living object until he received the spirit of life.

Answer 5

creation stories are myths, the religous stuff is a leap of personal faith. HOWEVER in the real, physical universe there really isn't nothing. even before the big bang there were waves of energy and there is also dark matter. evn a shadow is the product of reflection and air is made up of molecules.

Vin

then again there are blondes "minds"...............

Answer 6

I don't know. Apparently the theory of evolution and the Big Bang theory border on the same idea.

PS - Because the Cat can make cupcakes out of anything, God can certainly make something out of nothing.

Answer 7

It doesn't.
Skunkgrease is right.
We are all to busy debating Creationism vs. Big Bang Theory. Both leave much to be desired. Cyclic-Universe Theory lends itself to be most logical. It also somewhat correlates to Hindu cosmology.

Answer 8

All things are possable for God -
Proverbs 16:04 - The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil

Answer 9

Isn't it presumptuous to think that we can understand creation?

We're a part of the creation.

It'd be like an organ of the body (like the liver) trying to comprehend all the systems of the human body.

I applaud your spirit tho. . .carry on!

Answer 10

God`s power