like, the quran says it was made up of gases. but is tht true of the bible?
2007-11-22 05:26:30 · 15 answers · asked by Al Qiyamah{top lawyer inshAllah} 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i didnt say created BY NOTHING i saids created OUT OF NOTHING.
2007-11-22 05:31:04 · update #1
Yep. All the infinite amount of matter in the universe was "created" from NOTHING. Whats wrong with this picture?
2007-11-22 05:33:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ever try to make anything out of nothing? Do you think God is really any better at it than you?
In case you hadn't figured it out, figurative language is really predominant in the bible. Jesus' use of parables isn't accidental; it's in keeping with the onion-esque approach that the bible offers. Yes, there are truths contained within it, but they are meant to reverberate within the reader, like a pebble falling through water.
In other words, the deeper you go into understanding, the more clearer the passages get. The parable of Genesis is very much taken in this regard: it has multiple levels and meanings contained within it, and not every one of them can be learned simply by skimming the surface or accepting what is there as it is written.
Think about it this way: the Jesus parable of the sower of seeds. On a simple level, Jesus is making a connection between what he is saying and who is receiving it, but it can also be taken much deeper than that. Suppose the three types of ground are not just three types of people but the three stages of acceptance within a person? The first stage is outright rejection (and thus bears no fruit), the second stage is incomplete application (which a little fruit is quickly eaten or spirited away) while the last stage is complete and proper acceptance. It is possible to see the parable of the sower as someone who repeatedly sowes the same field until it produces fruit.
The same applies to Genesis: it first reads as 'God' creating opposition: light/dark, heaven/earth, etc out of nothing, but what if 'creating' could be the same as 'realising'? In other words, what if God didn't 'create' so much as 'realize' the existence of light and dark, of heaven and earth, of up and down? What if 'God' itself is a realization, and that before 'creation' can take place, faith and belief in oneself is necessary first? What if it takes a 'God-mind' to create, to realize, to understand?
As the r&b song goes: "Nothing from nothing leaves nothing; gotta have something, if you wanna be with me."
2007-11-22 13:49:31 · answer #2 · answered by Khnopff71 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says that in effect this.
Jhn 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jhn 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Jhn 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
So in effect, there was nothing before, so God spoke the Universe into existance out of Nothing by the power of His will alone, He has that much Power and much More.
2007-11-22 13:40:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the opening verses of John again. Nothing exists that was not made by the Word and through the Word.
God created in His mind and spoke His creation into being.
2007-11-22 13:36:08 · answer #4 · answered by sympleesymple 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't really specify - it just says that God created the Heavens and the Earth. It does say later that he created them out of "the void," but it doesn't specify that "the void" necessarily meant absolute nothingness.
Better question: If the universe had to be created, then why doesn't God have to have a creator?
2007-11-22 13:31:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scriptures do not specifially say the bible was made out of nothing..no. It also does not claim everything was made from gasses either. It just says God made everything. And by the way.. that comes from what Moses had recorded.. the bible includes the torah. Moses said God made everything ..no mention of gasses or of everything being made from nothing. Anyone who is saying the bible or the torah claimed God made it from nothing..didnt read them for themselves but trusted someone else who also did not read them ..and so on and so on. You understand.
2007-11-22 13:48:11 · answer #6 · answered by BelieverinGod 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember that God is a Spirit. That is a nonphysicall being created this physical universe. And everyone has a spiritual soul besides their physical body. God created this physica universe for man to live and so that God would fulfill his plan of salvation for man.
2007-11-22 14:22:56 · answer #7 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word 'void' comes up in most translations. And if you want be literal, it was created by the Word.
2007-11-22 13:36:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Created by God...he's definitely not nothing..
well God created matter so it was made out of nothing...
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..Genesis 1:1
I know what you said with the out of and not by, by the way...
2007-11-22 13:30:37 · answer #9 · answered by notw777 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There are a million different theories oh how the universe came into existence....one is no more valid than any other....
2007-11-22 13:36:09 · answer #10 · answered by Adam G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋