(July 25, 2016 at 11:02 am)ChadWooters Wrote:I agree, and it's worth noting that scripture is silent here as well. Since we've both assumed that from nothing, nothing comes, where did the godstuff, which is the stuff of the universe, come from?(July 25, 2016 at 8:54 am)Rhythm Wrote: To be clear, you do not subscribe to the notion of creation ex nihilo, then?
The structure of the argument is silent with respect to whether the physical universe always existed or whether it started at some hypothetical time 0. That said, Swedenborg did not subscribe to creation ex nihilo. His claimed that God created the universe “out of Himself”. This suggests a more neo-Platonic notion, similar to Plotinus.
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