original unformed state of these materials when God brought them into being and before He began to impose order and system to transform them into the wonderful universe we now know. Speaking of God’s creative work the writer to the Hebrews says: “… what is seen was not made out of what was visible” (Hebrews 11:3). If the materials were not visible then clearly they did not exist originally. But not everyone, it would seem, agrees with that as is evident from certain versions of the Bible. For example,
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