Omnipotent creator

• there are three approaches to the belief in god as creator
• belief 1:

  a minority of christians think in terms of the universe as coming out of god's own being. most, however, reject this identification of god with the created universe because it limits god.
• belief 2:

  the view accepted by many christians is that the universe was created by god out of nothing (ex nihilo). this idea is expressed in the repeated 'Let there be... and there was...' in genesis 1. his word Brough everything into existence and ordered it. it is based on the usual English translation of genesis 1:1-3
• belief 3:

  the third approach, using an alternative translation and adopted by process theology, is the view that the earth was already in existence and in a state of chaos. God then worked at ordering it
• creation ex nihilo

  refers to the belief that god created the universe out of nothing