Nowadays, theologians debate whether the Bible itself teaches if this creation by God is a creation "ex nihilo". Traditional interpreters argue on grammatical and syntactical grounds that this is the meaning of Genesis 1:1, which is commonly rendered: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." However, other interpreters understand creation "ex nihilo" as a 2nd-century theological development. According to this view, church fathers opposed notions appearing in "pre"-Christian creation myths and in Gnosticism—notions of creation by a demiurge out of a primordial state of matter (known in religious studies as "chaos" after the Greek term used by Hesiod in his "Theogony").