They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

 (i) Christianity has always believed in what is called creation out of nothing. We do not believe that in his creation of the world God had to work with alien and evil matter. We do not believe that the world began with an essential flaw in it. We do not believe that the world began with God and something else. It is our belief that behind everything there is God and God alone. 