Christianity
See also: Biblical cosmology, Ex nihilo, and CreationismIt is a tenet of Christian faith (Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant) that God is the creator of all things from nothing, and has made human beings in the Image of God, who by direct inference is also the source of the human soul. In Chalcedonian Christology, Jesus is the Word of God, which was in the beginning and, thus, is uncreated, and hence is God, and consequently identical with the Creator of the world ex nihilo.
The New Testament claims that God created everything by the eternal Word, Jesus Christ his beloved Son. In him:
- "all things were created, in heaven and on earth.. . all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
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