“You ask the learned doctors why they say the world was made out
of nothing, and they will answer, 'Doesn’t the Bible say he created
the world?' And they infer, from the word create, that it must have
been made out of nothing. Now, the word create came from the word
baurau, which does not mean to create out of nothing; it means to
organize; the same as a man would organize materials and build a
ship. Hence we infer that God had materials to organize the world
out of chaos—chaotic matter, which is element, and in which dwells
all the glory. Element had an existence from the time He had. The
pure principles of element are principles which can never be
destroyed; they may be organized and re-organized, but not
destroyed. They had no beginning and can have no end.”