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Chapter 1, Verse 4: > 1) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2) The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the d
by imchillyb 3y ago
Chapter 1, Verse 4:
> 1) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2) The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. 3) Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4) God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5) God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
He felt like it, and saw that the light was good.
Something, light, is better than nothing, darkness. 'It was good,' I believe is the answer to that question.
- awb 3y agoThe question of “Why is there something rather than nothing” encompasses a curiosity about the existence of God. Your answer starts after the existence of God, so it doesn’t answer the original question.
- imchillyb 3y agoThe question was 'why is there something rather than nothing.' I believe: '...it was good...' is the answer. Why was it good? Because, at first there was nothing. Then, there was something, light, and _that_ was good, not the nothing. The question I believe you wish to ask, without asking, is: "God, why do you exist?" That's not this question though.
- awb 3y ago“It was good”, addresses the post-creation impact of the something vs. nothing (decision, instance, etc.), but it doesn’t answer the question of why there is something vs. nothing, which is asking about the origins of existence and isn’t concerned with the impact. I don’t mean to ask "God, why do you exist?" because “Why is there something instead of nothing?” encompasses that possibility without necessitating it.
- mistermann 3y agoThe fact that the potential (allegedly) existed in the first place seems rather good to me.