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The Judeo-Christian-Islamic creation ex nihilo, as indemonstrable as it may be, renders that matter 3⁄4 in the form of “the primeval waters” and “chaos” in Genesis, and in the form of “the throne” in the Qur’an 3⁄4 pre-exists before God’s creation, affirming the Grecian “creation ex-materia,” and its proverbial “out of nothing, nothing comes to be.” Creation “out of something” insinuates matter either pre-exists eternally or co- exists with an eternal Creator. If it pre-exists God, how does matter originate? Is it possible for matter to self-originate or to be self-moved? To Grecians, this is unlikely. Matter in itself cannot arise by itself; it necessitates a First Unmoved Mover. If a First Unmoved Mover does not exist, then the nothing exists, and “out of nothing, nothing comes to be.”
The concrete Hebrew mind, however, thinks otherwise. “Creation out of nothing,” or “out of Yahweh’s Living Word,” as unlikely as it might be to Grecians, is to them theologically, historically, and semantically significant. Theologically, it reveals Yahweh’s absolute freewill, omnipotence, and covenant bond between Him and His Creature. Historically, it proclaims Yahweh’s sovereignty over salvation history. Semantically, it shows how Yahweh’s infinitely omnific Word dramatically transforms itself, in a three-fold way: when translated into the Septuagint as “λόγος,” when Stoics interpreted Hermes as “λόγος,” when Philo synthesized the OT “Spoken Word” with the
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