Probably the most recognized Bible verses, even in the secular world, are Genesis, Chapter 1, verses 1 and 2. The King James Version says it this way, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
The more modern
translations replace “void” with “empty”, the more immediate translation of the
Hebrew. Both words describe our reality at its start as a blank space, a void, an
emptiness or a nothing space. The traditional understanding among theologians
is creation “ex nihilo”, creation out of nothing. Could it be possible that how
you start is more important than how you finish? Is matter eternal or is God
eternal?
Some say, there has always been God, then came
matter. Some say, our world order cries out for God.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
