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the others. By following this order of creation, God would create “out of something,” that is, “out of Ideas,” or “out of His Vision” of them within His mind. For Perfect Ideas, non-physical entities, unlike matter or atoms, are surely “something,” and never “absolutely nothing.”
Philo’s flawed, yet lovely synthesis, however, ascribes Stoicism’s λόγος to God, grounded on Stoicism’s allegorized Hermes. Not only does it lead to a misleading rationalization of His creation “out of nothing” or “out of formlessness” by His almighty Word, as indemonstrable as it might be, but it also leads to Stoicism’s misguided ratiocination of mischievous, wily Hermes, as argued in the following writings.
To summarize, the Old Testament, unable to demonstrate creation ex nihilo, simply reveals “the waters” and “primordial chaos” pre-exist before divine creation. The mytho- poetic mystery of their creation endures. Neither the semantic motions from non-existent things (II Macc. 28-29, Rom. 4:17) to invisible things (Heb. 11:3) clarify things for us, for “invisible things” can exist pre-eternally, such as Plato’s intelligible, Eternal Forms. Moreover, both post-scriptural Jewish literature and Saadia and Kalam thinkers, too, posit creation to be either out of something, or out of formless matter, or out of pre-existent matter, respectively.
These conjugations insinuate something eternally pre- exists God’s Divine Word. Then the question resurfaces, once
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