Did God Create The World Ex-Nihilo (From Nothing)?

"Genesis

1:1 In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth,

1:2 the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters.

1:3 Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light."

I take the bible with more than a grain of salt, especially, when God is painted as a genocidal maniac

"1Samuel

15:2 This is what the LORD of hosts has to say: 'I will punish what Amalek did to Israel when he barred his way as he was coming up from Egypt.

15:3 Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.'"

So if you take the passage in Genesis above, it is sprinkled with truth and garbage. First of all, it is true that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, the heavens meaning all the stars, planets, and all that the eyes and telescopes can see, and even those they cannot see.

The rest of the passage reads like nonsense, because it presupposes that the earth existed as a formless wasteland and that darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. When was the wind created? But even reading that passage to mean that God first created the earth as a formless wasteland (I cannot imagine any wasteland being formless because by definition, land has form), then the heavens (the stars, for example) either existed or did not exist, and if they existed they would emit light (such as the star we call the Sun). If they did not exist, then the earth would have nothing to revolve around, so the earth of necessity would have to have been created before the Sun, but we know that is ridiculous.

Obviously, if God created "the Heavens and the earth", light would have been upon the earth, because the mere creation of a star involves light. But the bible says light was created after the formation of the heavens and the earth. But whoever wrote the bible, didn't know that, but it was a good try.

The only point being made here is that the bible cannot be the source of determining whether God created the universe ex-nihilo because the source is littered with nonsense and very little truth.

So, to determine the answer to this question, pure reason, objective reason with no axe to grind, will have to be used. What does reason tell us? Reason tells us that God is an infinitely and eternally pure spirit, with no admixture of time or space, because God cannot, in God's essence, be composed of something that is temporal or physical, since we have proven elsewhere, that God is not temporal but eternal, and that God is not physical, but is an absolutely pure spirit. If there is nothing temporal or physical in God, then that would be the case for all eternity, because we have already proven that God is eternal, having no beginning or end, and cannot change as we have proven.

Consequently, the universe could not, and cannot exist in God, in the temporal or eternal, and therefore, the universe was created ex-nihilo, by a mere act of God's will.

To those who then state that the universe was created at some point in time, they are missing the point. With God, time does not exist in His essence, IT IS PART OF HIS CREATION. There is nothing discursive in God, that is, one thing following another in some sort of time line.

Seek and you shall find the one true God,

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