How can Ex-nihilo be true?

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If something can’t come from nothing.
How can something come from nothing with God? (creatio ex-Nihilo)
 
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Something can’t come from nothing within the rules of the natural processes created by God. But God is not bound by the rules of His created order.

Also, it’s helpful to mess with the wording a bit. It’s not that something came “from nothing.” God did not take nothing and turn it into something. He made something where there was nothing. Before He made that something, there was nothing, and after He made that something, there was something. But the something was not created from the nothing as a smith makes a sword from steel. So a better phrasing, in my opinion, is to say that “something came where there before was nothing,” rather than “something came from nothing.”
 
Ex nihilo historically is a contrasting doctrine. It contrasts with ex materia (previously existing matter/energy) and ex deus (out of god—as in pantheism). Ex nihilo rejects both competing beliefs. There weren’t previously existing materials that God simply reformed, nor is the entire universe a series of modes or extensions of the Being of God.
 
ex-Nihilo is basically saying that it required something supernatural
 
Yes, we cant deny God’s will. That is certainly something.
 
God can do what is impossible in our minds. But the material universe cannot create itself. The point is contrasting God versus the materialistic view of the universe.
 
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Something can’t come from nothing within the rules of the natural processes created by God. But God is not bound by the rules of His created order.
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Yep. This! 👍

The statement “something can’t come from nothing” speaks to the laws of the natural universe. God isn’t bound by them. 😉
 
Ex nihilo. No more improbable than an initial singularity of infinite density preceding the Big Bang. If the latter, who created the singularity?
 
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Agree. And also, the Big Bang implies an extremely precise magnitude of explosion. An infinitesimally less powerful explosion and the universe has to collapse back to the original point, an infinitesimally more powerful explosion and the result is a soup of particles without planets or stars.
 
A perfectly designed and perfectly fine tuned universe. Yet somehow…accidental and random?
I don’t think so.
 
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