“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”
By faith we understand that the worlds (aiones) were framed (katartizo) by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible — faith grasps that creation flows from divine utterance (rhēma), not from preexistent material. Not made out of visible things (ex horōmenōn) indicates that faith recognizes God's creative freedom transcends natural causation. This introduces the motif of faith's epistemological function: it knows what reason cannot.
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