Why Do Christians Maintain That God Created The Universe From Nothing.

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             How does one deduce by adding the word "when", changes the sense of the Statement? Keeping in mind Rev.22:18, if words are to be added it seems more correct to add them in verse 2 "And" the earth was "made" without form e.t.c.
             The statement "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" King James, New king James, New international and many other versions clearly states that God created the earth. If most Bible students believe otherwise, then it appears, they have been terribly misguided. The scriptures do go on to state how God "after" He created the earth, brought the sphere to life by adding, light, dry land, seas, the trees of the field, grass and fruit trees, animals and finally man. It is significant that God left man till last, making the world perfect for his entry, or perhaps he was left till the end so he could not mess things up.
             However the point is this, the earth as with all things was created by God. (From nothing).
             Immediate and Mediate Creation.
             There are two senses or ways to consider creation. Immediate creation or instantaneous creation, is where God freely immediately and instantaneously brought into being the whole visible and that yet undiscovered or invisible universe. This was a free act of God in which the whole trinity took part involving equally Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God created for His own glory, (ex nihilo). He did not involve the use of, or the reshaping of existing materials, nor the reforming of existing creations.
             Mediate Creation, or ongoing creation on the other hand, are those acts which we designate creation, but which do not originate (ex nihilo), they shape, adapt or transform materials or objects which already exist. If we compare immediate with mediate creation, we find that the former makes impossible the use of anything that existed beforehand. The earth would come into this category, but the earth would or could come into the second category because after it was formed initially, God had to continue His work of creation by adapting and adding to that which he had already made.