Let's look at Genesis slowly. Not one line a day, but not full chapters. Using NIV here.
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Okay- I think line one is a title of what will happen in the story. But...
In line two the earth is already there. Now, heaven is made later, but the earth is there. But, the earth is formless and empty. How can something be formless and empty?
Now, we have darkness, the deep, the spirit of god and the waters. Okay- god creates heaven and earth, but did he create these? Darkness as absence of light one could say is simply a state of non-existance, but it is described as a thing (darkness is OVER the deep- but if light doesn't exist wouldn't darkness be everywhere, even in the deep? And if so, why mention it being over the deep? Is this darkness a cloud, or akin to a cloud?) So, we have the deep, and we have the waters. From later on it seems the waters are in the deep.
Next we see the spirit of god- does that mean god is more than just spirit? If god is exclusively spirit, wouldn't we say "God, who is a spirit, hovered over the deep"? Also, if god hovers over does that mean he isn't everywhere?
Anyways, I find these lines both very poetic and very perplexing, and I thought others might enjoy the contemplation.
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Okay- I think line one is a title of what will happen in the story. But...
In line two the earth is already there. Now, heaven is made later, but the earth is there. But, the earth is formless and empty. How can something be formless and empty?
Now, we have darkness, the deep, the spirit of god and the waters. Okay- god creates heaven and earth, but did he create these? Darkness as absence of light one could say is simply a state of non-existance, but it is described as a thing (darkness is OVER the deep- but if light doesn't exist wouldn't darkness be everywhere, even in the deep? And if so, why mention it being over the deep? Is this darkness a cloud, or akin to a cloud?) So, we have the deep, and we have the waters. From later on it seems the waters are in the deep.
Next we see the spirit of god- does that mean god is more than just spirit? If god is exclusively spirit, wouldn't we say "God, who is a spirit, hovered over the deep"? Also, if god hovers over does that mean he isn't everywhere?
Anyways, I find these lines both very poetic and very perplexing, and I thought others might enjoy the contemplation.