"This one, true God, of his own goodness and Almighty Power, nor for increasing his own beatitude, nor for attaining his perfection, but in order to manifest this perfection through the benefits which he bestows on creatures, with absolute freedom of counsel "and from the beginning of time, made out of nothing both orders of creatures, the spiritual and the corporeal..." (Lateran Council IV)
Scripture bears witness to faith in creation "Out of nothing" as a truth full of promise and hope. The the mother of seven sons encourages them for martyrdom:
"I do not know how you came into being in my womb. It was not I who gave you life and breath, nor I who set in order the elements within each of you. Therefore the Creator of the world, who shaped the beginning of man and devised the origin of all things, will in his mercy give life and breath to you again....Look at the Heavens and the earth and see everything that is in them, and recognize that God did not make them out of things
2007-07-14 18:32:19 · 7 answers · asked by hossteacher 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe that God created everything out of nothing. God The Father through his eternal word (God the Son) spoke everything into existance in God The Holy Spirit. God bless.
2007-07-14 18:37:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anybody can write anything. We are now and have always been creative beings and just because some so-called wise men created this text long ago, does not mean it is nothing more than the meanderings of creative minds.
2007-07-15 01:38:38 · answer #2 · answered by tomleah_06 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is one problem with your conclusion. We know that matter can not be created. What matter there is in a Hubble space is all there is unless one postulates that there many Hubble spaces. In that case, there is a statistical possibility that our hubble space is repeated giving rise to a parallel universe.
2007-07-15 01:46:18 · answer #3 · answered by 1st Liberal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't believe everything you read, it's one of the first symptoms of a weak mind.
2007-07-15 01:41:24 · answer #4 · answered by Jylsamynne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't need an Apocryphal book used by Catholics to tell you the answer.It is :"yes".
2007-07-15 05:29:39 · answer #5 · answered by Trish 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He spoke, and without anything He made everything.
2007-07-15 02:04:09 · answer #6 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God had nothing to do with it; the tale is fiction.
2007-07-15 01:35:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋