{"id":46497,"date":"2022-10-01T02:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/mind-or-matter-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:24:16","slug":"mind-or-matter-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/mind-or-matter-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Or Matter? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, Why is there anything rather than nothing? If there was ever a time when nothing existed, nothing would exist now, for something cannot come from nothing. Since something exists now, something has always existed. Was it mind or matter?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The querist asks a logical question. To receive a logical answer, we must go to the inspired word of God (2 Timothy 3:16 ASV),which indicates that God has revealed to man all of the information he needs to know about life and godliness through the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:3; Ephesians 3:1-5; cf. John 14:22-26).<\/p>\n<p>Here we learn that it was God (the One who has always existed &#8211; Psalm 90:2; 1 Timothy 1:17) who spoke everything into existence that we can now physically see (Psalm 33:8-9; Psalm 148:5; Isaiah 40:28; Romans 1:19-20). Also note Genesis 1 and the phrase, &#8220;God said&#8221; (Genesis 1:3,6,9,11,14,20,24,26,29).<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the answer to the querists question, Was it mind or matter?  is obviously <strong>mind<\/strong>  everything that exists [matter] came from the mind (or Spirit) of God, including the holy Scriptures (Gal. 1:11-12; Ephesians 3:1-5; cf. John 14:22-26; John 15:26-27; 1 Corinthians 2; 2 Peter 1:16-21).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creation  Will It Stand &#8220;The Test Of Science?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;So Long, Eternal Universe; Hello Beginning, Hello End!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The Power of God&#8217;s Word in Creation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, Why is there anything rather than nothing? If there was ever a time when nothing existed, nothing would exist now, for something cannot come from nothing. Since something exists now, something has always existed. Was it mind or matter?&#8221; The querist asks a logical question. To receive a logical answer, we must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/mind-or-matter-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mind Or Matter? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}