{"id":4174,"date":"2007-10-24T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/10\/creatio-ex-nihilo\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T13:56:00","slug":"creatio-ex-nihilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/10\/creatio-ex-nihilo.html","title":{"rendered":"Creatio ex nihilo"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The doctrine of <em>creation out of nothing<\/em> is an interesting point of divergence between Jewish and Christian theism as usually defined today, and proponents of views such as process theology.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Schenck, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/kenschenck.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/implications-of-ex-nihilo-creation.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent blog entry<\/a>, recognizes that the doctrine is not strictly Biblical, and enters the Christian tradition later (and the Jewish tradition <em>much <\/em>later). He nonetheless asks what the relationship between God and the universe looks like if one accepts this doctrine on faith. I\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/kenschenck.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/implications-of-ex-nihilo-creation.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted a reply to his blog entry on this subject<\/a>, and invite readers here to pay <a href=\"http:\/\/kenschenck.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/implications-of-ex-nihilo-creation.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">his blog<\/a> a visit and join in the conversation that will hopefully ensue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-473377206300421471?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doctrine of creation out of nothing is an interesting point of divergence between Jewish and Christian theism as usually defined today, and proponents of views such as process theology. 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