You wouldn't think Lucretius would be a good jumping-off point for Christian apologetics, but Mike Licona appeals here to the principle ex nihilo nihil fit, arguing that it bolsters Christianity rather than the reverse. Hmm...now that I poke around a bit, it's actually quite popular...even for Wiccans...Ah, but here's Heidegger:
Christian dogmatics denies the truth of the sentence Ex nihilo nihil fit and gives nothingness a changed meaning, in the sense of absolute absence of non-godly being.
Finally, "Much Ado about Nothingness":
In Hindu, Taoist, and Buddhist wisdom traditions, “emptiness” and “nothingness” carries quite a different significance. The following may help. Christian theologians tend to view the universe as “Creatio ex nihilo” – created out of nothing. This means that God did not make the universe out of some prior “stuff,” but whipped it up new, bringing existence out of the nothing. Scientists would argue, “Nothing comes from nothing.” A Buddhist would say, “Everything comes from nothing!”
[For Lucretius' own phraseology, see citations here.]
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