[betty boop]

Nothing comes from nothing.

Hello Diamond! Certainly this is true for us denizens of the natural world.

God, however, is not subject to this restriction. For He created the world "out of nothing."

Of course, He added a whole lot of "value-added" to that nothing.... :^) Thanks so much for writing!

[Diamond]

Hi, betty!

God, however, is not subject to this restriction. For He created the world "out of nothing."

Yes, of course, for God is not nothing.

Cordially,

[Alamo-Girl]

Nothing comes from nothing.

IMHO, the hardest concept to fathom about the beginning is the state of null. Corporeal existents cannot pre-exist space/time. A vacuum, even the quantum vacuum, is not null - it exists in space/time. Zero is not null, it occupies the value of nothing. Null is infinitely void, the state at the inception of space/time.

Further, all cosmologies - whether big bang, multiworld, multiverse, ekpyrotic, cyclic, imaginary time - all of them - have a beginning of time and thus were preceded by null.

The fact of a beginning is the single most theological statement made by science this past century, i.e. a beginning from the state of null requires a Creator, God.