[Buddha-l] Energy

[Curt Steinmetz]

Kate Marshall wrote:
> .....I find the stance of Creation ex nihilo 
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>> as presented in the link contradictory.
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> Make that "self-contradictory".
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You might be interested in this online article title "Is Creation Ex 
Nihilo A Post-Biblical Invention?":
http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/article_exnihilo_copan.html

It starts off with a quote from John Calvin: "Let this, then, be 
maintained in the first place, that the world is not eternal, but was 
created by God."

The short answer, according to the author, is "No," as he makes clear in 
the concluding paragraph:

"So, contrary to May and others, the doctrine of creation out of nothing 
was not simply created ex nihilo by post-biblical theologians of the 
second century to counteract gnostic ideas. We have good reason to 
believe that the doctrine of creation out of nothing is rooted in 
biblical passages indicating that God is the ontological Originator of 
all that exists."

Curt Steinmetz