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One of the qualities of the Almighty mere mortals have difficulty wrapping their feeble heads around is the concept of ‘ex nihilo.’
The ability to make something out of nothing is quite beyond our comprehension.
We have nothing equivalent, no frame of reference.
We are bound by the fetters of our existence.
But Holy Writ indicates that is indeed what happened in the Beginning as we know it.
And possibly well before it.
The Almighty spoke matter into existence.
This may have been a reversal of Albert Einstein’s unique formula:
Rather than a relatively small amount of matter converted into enormous energy, as with atomic (most notably uranium and plutonium) bombs, which ushered in the nuclear age, it was the other way around.
So great the energy Robert Oppenheimer, considered by some the father of the atomic bomb, was moved, when he witnessed its awesome power, to contemplate this from the Hindu Bagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Divine energy, of which there may be an infinite supply, became matter as we know it.
What amount of matter are we talking about?
