ANSWER: The creation account in genesis 1:1-2 reads as follows: “In the beginning God created the heavens 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.”

The phrase “In the beginning” means that before the acts of creation, nothing existed! All was eternity! The word “created” carries the idea that all existing elements; all existing material came into being by the word of God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) at precisely that time. This obviously included the elements of hydrogen and oxygen of which water is comprised. The fact that God created from nothing is attested to, as well, in the New Testament. “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 appear” (Hebrews 11:3). Immediately following the bringing into existence of all matter, the earth was without form and void (vs.2). This means that God had not yet spoken the laws that were to govern the arrangement and orderliness of those things that he had created. This action was completed by Him during the total creation period of six literal twenty-four hour days. In summary, God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) in six days created everything that has ever existed from absolutely nothing (including water) and placed into effect laws that caused and provided for the continuing orderly arrangement and function of it all!

David, in Psalms 33:9, said it this way, “He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.”