no, i'm not saying that - i'm talking about the soul. i only mentioned plastics and metals etc. to demonstrate that existence and life are not equivalent.
nothing indeed comes from nothing - but creation comes from a God who has no beginning or end, who is both The Beginning and The End. physics isn't overturned by creation; physics is His design in creation - conservation of energy isn't defied by Him making the universe, because He added energy to it: it's not a closed system; it receives momentum from Him who made it. time is also a creation; God is not naturally bound by it, but He made it, and put things in it. it is not unnatural for Him who created the soul to make it after His own eternal qualities. as Solomon said, God put eternity in our hearts, yet in such a way that we cannot perceive.
this is an infinite line, stretching in both directions without end:
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and this also is an infinite line ((technically a 'ray')), stretching in only one direction without end:
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it still has infinite length even though it has a definite beginning. both can represent a graph of existence over time - so to say a soul is created eternal isn't a contradiction, having been created yet still unending, nor is it necessarily saying existence of the soul stretches backwards in time eternally.
He can do all things. He can destroy the soul in hell, if He were to choose to. but is this His intent? what does Jesus Christ mean when He says, He is not a god of the dead, but God of the living - that all live to Him?