In the Hebrews 11 list of what we are to understand by faith, the first
thing noted is the creation of all things by the word of God: “By faith
we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that
the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible” (v.
3).
This truth that God created the universe out of nothing is sometimes described by the Latin phrase ex nihilo (out of nothing).
This ability of God to create ex nihilo
is not only mentioned in Hebrews 11:3 but is also inferred in Romans
4:17, where God “calls those things which do not exist as though they
did.”
The English Standard Version says “calls into existence the things
that do not exist.”
In Psalm 33,
the Scriptures say, “By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and
all the host of them by the breath of His mouth….For He spoke, and it
was done; He commanded, and it stood fast” (vv. 6, 9).
---Amazingly, evolutionists have often criticized creationists for the doctrine of creation ex nihilo being unscientific, while they maintain their own version of evolution ex nihilo without a creator or logical first cause. What hypocrisy!"
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