Jerry Shugart
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So then, God DID create the world in vain, because it had become uninhabited and without form, even though He had created it fully formed and inhabited.
The word "vain" must be understood in the "context" where it is used:
"For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited" (Isa.45:18).
The purpose of the LORD in creating the earth was that it would be inhabited. And that is the way that it was created. Therefore, the purpose of creating it was not in vain.