AQA GCSE Religious Studies A · 8062
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The Christian belief that God brought the universe into existence without using pre-existing material; the Latin phrase means ‘creation from nothing’.
Revise: Beliefs About CreationChristians traditionally describe creation as creation ex nihilo, meaning creation from nothing: God did not need pre-existing material from which to make the universe.
- Revise: Origins of the Universe
The belief that God created the universe ‘out of nothing’, rather than using materials that already existed.