When God created the heaven some other things were there also: darkness, the deep, waters. Did these things come along with the creation, or was there darkness before there was an earth? Before there was a heaven or earth was there nothing? Or was this the place where, in the course of the spiritual dimension, God set the physical dimension running as a “new thing”: Spiritual always, physical in time?
The earth was without form and void (empty)? Does this mean there were no geologic features (lakes, mountains, seas . . .) or does it mean the Earth somehow was not coagulated into a solid physical sphere?
Where was the Deep? On the Earth, outer space?
God created light and “saw” that it was good. Did God “see” anything before there was light? God knows everything, of course, but is “seeing” something different?
If darkness was upon the face of the deep, where was it not? Were there other places that darkness was not upon? If there were such places, what was upon them? (Not light because light came after darkness).
God divided the light from the darkness (implying that light and darkness were mixed together). When he did that “. . . the evening and the morning were the first day”. This seems to be the start of time.
Apparently God was not satisfied with darkness and waters alone because he did not see that they were good, when God created light he saw that it was good; did the three have to be together?
