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Did any of the early church fathers believe that God formed the universe out of formless matter?

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Christians are starting to accept natural theology as a way of God using the observable world in order to create the universe. In the deuterocanonical books, it says that God formed the universe out of formless matter or matter without form (Wisdom of Solomon 11:17), but did any of the church fathers believe that God created the universe through formless matter? Wisdom of Solomon 11:17 > For thy all-powerful hand, which created the world out of formless matter, did not lack the means to send upon them a multitude of bears, or bold lions,
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Jan 27, 2024, 04:44 AM
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