Faithfully In Ecuador: How Can God Make Something Out Of Nothing?

HOW CAN GOD MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING?

If God and nothing else existed prior to the creation of the world, the universe came into existence from nothing.

Isn't it absurd to say that something can come from nothing?

It is absurd to say that nothing caused something.

Because nothing doesn't exist and has no power to do anything.

But it is not absurd to say that someone – God – brought the universe into existence from nonexistence.

Nothing cannot make something, but someone – God – can make something out of nothing.

If the universe had a beginning, as demonstrated in WHO MADE GOD? and WHY COULDN'T THE WORLD ALWAYS HAVE EXISTED?

Then there was once no universe.

And then there was.

After God created it.

This is what is meant by creation “out of nothing”.

There was God and nothing else.

Then God brought something else into existence that had not existed before.

God did not create out of something else that already existed.

This is creation out of something preexisting matter outside of God.

Not creation out of nothing.

Neither did God create the world out of Himself.

God did not take part of Himself and make the world out of it.

Orthodox Christian God has no parts.

He is a simple whole that is absolutely one.

There is no way God could have taken part of Himself and made the world.

“God is infinite and the world is finite. And no amount of finite parts can make an infinite, since no matter how many parts or pieces one has, there could always be more. But there cannot be more than an infinite. Hence, no amount of parts could ever equal an infinite. So God could not have created the world out of part of himself.”

Norman Geisler

The world came from God but is not of God.

He is the cause but not the substance.

We came to existence by Him but we are not made of Him.

But since the world was not created out of God, or out of something else existing alongside God.

It must have been created out of nothing.

There is no other alternative.

God made something that didn't exist before.

This is Good God Questions Monday. A series dedicated to those good, and difficult, questions about God, universe, life, sin, Christ, love, and everything related.

Why is it so important to answer questions about God?

“but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect”

1 Peter 3:15

Even little children can ask tough question, but there are good answers for all of them. The Bible exhorts us to find them and give them.

“Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.”

Colossians 4:6

This post is based on the book “How Made God? And Answer To Over 100 Other Tough Questions Of Faith” by Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler.

The First Monday we wondered:

WHO MADE GOD?

The Second Monday we wondered:

WHY COULDN'T THE WORLD HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED?

The Third Monday we wondered:

HOW CAN GOD MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING?

The Fourth Monday we wondered:

WHAT WAS GOD DOING BEFORE HE MADE THE WORLD?

The Fifth Monday we wondered:

HOW CAN THERE BE THREE PERSONS IN ONE GOD?