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===External links===  
===External links===  
*{{BYUS|author=Keith Norman|article=Ex Nihilo: The Development of the Doctrines of God and Creation in Early Christianity|vol=17|num=3|date=1977|start=291|end=318}} {{link|url=NEED}}
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===Printed material===
===Printed material===
*Bernhard W. Anderson, ''From Creation to New Creation: Old Testament Perspectives'' (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994), 30.
Edwin Hatch, ''The Influence of Greek Ideas on Christianity'' (Gloucester: Smith, 1970), 194–198.

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Criticism

Mainstream Christianity teaches that God created the universe from nothing (ex nihilo), while Mormons teach that God only organized the universe from pre-existing matter. The LDS God is therefore less powerful than the God of mainstream Christians.

Source(s) of the Criticism

Response

The response should be brief and summary in nature.

Conclusion

A summary of the argument against the criticism.

Further reading

FAIR wiki articles

  • Links to related articles in the wiki

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External links

  • Keith Norman, "Ex Nihilo: The Development of the Doctrines of God and Creation in Early Christianity," Brigham Young University Studies 17 no. 3 (1977), 291–318. [NEED off-site]
  • Blake T. Ostler, "Bridging the Gulf (Review of How Wide the Divide? A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation)," FARMS Review of Books 11/2 (1999): 103–177. off-site

Printed material

  • Bernhard W. Anderson, From Creation to New Creation: Old Testament Perspectives (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994), 30.

Edwin Hatch, The Influence of Greek Ideas on Christianity (Gloucester: Smith, 1970), 194–198.

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