A Look at Matter Through the Spectacles of Scripture

“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” (Genesis 1:1-2). With these words God reveals to us that He, with the power of His Word, brought every particle of matter in the universe into existence and also created the space which that matter fills. Today we define matter as “anything that has mass and takes up space.” It may help to think of...