Oxford Bible Commentary

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Genesis 1:2 refers to the situation before God’s creative action began.  There is no question here of a creatio ex nihilo, a “creation out of nothing.”  The earth already existed, but it was a formless void—not a kind of non-existence but something empty and formless, without light and covered by the water of the deep. 

p. 42-43 – no first cause since always existed

– no first cause since always existed

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