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Ad Nihilo Versus Ex Nihilo

by Terry Barlow
02/22/19
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Our Creator God is sometimes referred to as having created ex nihilo, which means that God created something out of nothing. That is to be distinguished from”creating”something out of materials already present.(It would be more accurate to call that “inventing”.) The Bible tells us that the enemy of our souls is a thief who comes to rob, kill and destroy.(John 10,v10) As a destroyer he comes to make nothing out of something, the opposite of God’s ex nihilo, making something out of nothing. To make nothing out of something is to waste its precious potential, especially the potential of a person made in God’s image. The devil takes special pleasure in defiling the image of God in the human being. He attempts to reduce its worth, or completely obliterate it in someone’s life, ad nihilo, if that were possible. He wants that image to be of no account or consequence ever again. But often when he thinks he has accomplished that sinister task, God surprises him, doing His characteristic work of resurrecting and redeeming it, just when all hope seemed lost.
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