Genesis 1:1-2
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Nothing is impossible with God.
He can do anything.
In the beginning there was God and nothing else.
Once He made something, however, it became impossible for nothing to ever exist again.
Nothing is now an impossibility.
Nothing can no longer exist.
Gnosticism was never possible.
Before God made anything, He was perfectly content. So, during the only period of time where it was even possible to prefer the spiritual to the material, the spiritual God was perfectly happy without it, but not, as evidenced by creation, committed in principle to preferring its absence. In fact, its creation dispels the idea of the material being the problem. For God looked upon the material world He had made and said, "Very good!"
Everything is now becoming something and sooner or later it's going to get there. But it can never go back to being nothing. It must conform to Christ or be condemned by Him, but there is no way to avoid Him.
In the beginning, God put an end to the nothing.
Genesis 1:1-3
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
That which was without form and void was powerless against the form and substance of Christ. Once God initiated the material world, a spiritual snobbery became possible, but not capable of eradicating the material.
Luke 1:37
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
God could undo everything, but it would then be a "used to be," not a "never was."
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