RE: Creatio Ex Nihilo - Forming Something out of Nothing?
February 21, 2015 at 10:16 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2015 at 10:18 pm by bennyboy.)
(February 21, 2015 at 9:40 pm)professor Wrote: Actually, the bible says the world was created by "Word" (Jesus is the Word of God), therefore creation is not made from nothing
(though we tend to see it this way) but from God.
Our own apologists ought to state this.
AE Wilder-Smith did, to his credit.
You are equivocating on two kinds of "Word." The word in the Old Testament is something like the idea of Logos, or possibly like Platonic idealism. That's very different from the gospel, or the word as the transmitted truth about the existence of God. It also says, if I recall correctly, that the word was with god and is God. . . pretty esoteric stuff actually. But saying Jesus is the Word of God is goofy, unless Jesus wasn't actually a person but rather a philosophical idea (which is possible, I think).
