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- From: "Lewis Reich" <lewreich AT javanet.com>
- To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: creatio ex nihilo
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 22:49:35 -0500
On 2 Feb 01, at 11:03, David Stabnow wrote:
> While the account in Genesis does not require ex nihilo, this doctrine was
> reinforced, for the Christian, in Hebrews 11:3 -- "what is seen has been
> made from things that are not visible" (EIS TO MH EK FAINOMENWN TO
> BLEPOMENON GEGONENAI). I say this only to explain why some hold the
> position, not to argue for it.
I am curious how this verse was seen as supporting ex nihilo. I'd have
thought that "things that are not visible" are not the same as "nothing";
that
a thing is not visible does not mean that is no-thing. (I ask this not to
argue
the position, but to understand how the verse was understood by those
who took the position.)
Lewis Reich
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creatio ex nihilo,
David Stabnow, 02/02/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: creatio ex nihilo, Liz Fried, 02/02/2001
- Re: creatio ex nihilo, Jonathan D. Safren, 02/02/2001
- Re: creatio ex nihilo, Lewis Reich, 02/02/2001
- Re: creatio ex nihilo, Lewis Reich, 02/02/2001
- Re: creatio ex nihilo, Jonathan D. Safren, 02/03/2001
- creatio ex nihilo, Harold R. Holmyard III, 02/03/2001
- Re: creatio ex nihilo, Jonathan D. Safren, 02/03/2001
- Re: creatio ex nihilo, Cees van Veelen, 02/03/2001
- RE: creatio ex nihilo, Ruthy & Baruch, 02/03/2001
- Re: creatio ex nihilo, David Stabnow, 02/05/2001
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