Did God create ex nihilio?

ferrisaf1

Are you saying that God created using material from a different realm? 

I accept ex nihilo creation - God doesn't need materials in order to create, as demonstrated in many of his miracles. Feeding the 5 and 4 thousand, turning water into wine, the oil and flour not running out (Old Testament), even Jesus' conception without a physical father all imply some sort of ex nihilo creation. If Jesus could do these things during his earthly ministry, why shouldn't we expect that he did it at the beginning of time as well? 

On a second layer, if you say that God took materials from the heavenly realm, which I do not think is true, then I would still ask whether God created Heaven as well. There are plenty of evidences that God created Heaven AND Earth (Genesis 1:1, for example).

RickeyD

@ferrisaf1 ; I did not say that God "needed" materials to create but that He used same; therefore, ex nihilo is incorrect.

5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing. John 9:5-7 (ESV)

God created the Heavens and the Earth.

Happy_Killbot

Other spiritual realm?

LMFAO!

So then, where did the spiritual realm get its "stuff"?