bible and theology on Ex Nihilo

God creates out of nothing. . . . But he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

Scholar John Walton points out that when Genesis 1 calls the world before creation tōhû, it is a modern cultural misunderstanding and mistranslation to think that it is describing the world as “formle...