This is a false assertion which is laughably indefensible, which is all the atheists on this board seem able to do. Creatio ex nihilo is taught throughout the bible beginning in Genesis 1. “The earth was without form and void” is a primitive manner of saying it did not exist, and then Moses details everything being created by God, even light itself. In Jeremiah 10:11 the Israelites are commanded to tell the pagans “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.” In John 1:3 we are told “All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.” In Romans 4:17 Paul refers to God as He who “calls into being the things that are not”. So it is very clear from beginning to end that God is the creator of all things according to the scriptures, however, my point was not so much that matter must be created (although it is true it must), but that matter belongs to the category of nature, it is part of the natural order of things. God exists beyond this order, independent of it, and is the creator of it, so for God to be a material entity would fundamentally contradict the biblical worldview on a basic level and posit the existence of something more fundamental than God Himself.

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