Biblical Talks

This is a Spotlight on the Scripture: Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth”. The creation account is found in Genesis 1:1-31. According to the Bible, Creation happened “ex nihilo.” Ex nihilo is a Latin word meaning “from nothing." This means that God created everything out of nothing. He did not use existing matter to create the earth, the planets, or the rest of creation. Let's discover why ex nihilo is crucial to the Creation account: ex nihilo is extremely important to the Creation story because it demonstrates God’s great power and divinity. When God (and the name for God in Genesis 1:1 is Elohim, which means the strong creator) so, when you read Genesis 1, you read like this, in the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth, He did not use any existing materials or matter. He created everything literally out of nothing. The Lord spoke everything into existence. Psalm 33:6 says: the heavens were made by the word of the Lord, and all the stars, by the breath of his mouth.  When God was creating the heavens and the earth, He said, “Let there be…” (Genesis 1:1-31). He didn’t use pre-made substances. When God created everything, He created it out of nothing. 

Rather than using preexistent resources, (which did not exist,) He spoke everything into being by using His Words. God is our great and powerful Creator. He did not need resources or preexisting matter to create the heavens and the earth. Because nothing exists outside of Him. Listen to me, let no one fool you. Before God created the heavens and the earth, there was nothing. All matter, energy, and protons, neutrons, atoms were created by God during the Creation week. There was nothing and no one else in existence outside of the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. The Trinity was completely satisfied in and of themselves. Out of their great love, they chose to create the heavens, the earth, and everything upon the face of the earth. This is a Spotlight on the Scriptures