"Was It Mind Or Matter?"

A sincere inquirer of truth once asked, “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?”

The inquirer 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).

Here we learn that it was God (the One who has always existed – 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, “God said” (Genesis 1:3,6,9,11,14,20,24,26,29).

Thus, the answer to the querist’s question, “Was it mind or matter?” — is obviously "mind" — 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).

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets

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