Faithful Steward Ministries and FSM Women's Outreach

Genesis 1

TWISTED SCRIPTURE Genesis 1:1–2

Some religions of the world believe God formed the world from pre-existent matter rather than creating it from nothing. Some also believe there to be a gap of time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. These verses however indicate God created the world from nothing, ex nihilo. Belief in creation from nothing is the historic Christian understanding of Genesis 1:1–2 and has the full weight of the text behind it. Similarly, there is no textual reason to believe in a gap of time between 1:1 and 1:2. In similar fashion, this passage also speaks against any type of evolutionary understanding of the origins of the universe.

Kenneth A. Mathews and A. Boyd Luter Jr., “Genesis,” in CSB Apologetics Study Bible, ed. Ted Cabal (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2017), 3.

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