When God created the heavens, some other things are 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 to run - - as a new thing? Spiritual always, physical in time. God is everlasting but the creation had a start.
The earth was without form and void, was it empty? Does this mean there were no geologic features (lakes, mountains, seas) - - or does it mean the earth somehow did not coagulative (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. “Seeing” is a tricky concept when thinking of God because we are physical and need eyes to see other things. We have the sense of sight. Once we see them, we have the beginning of an understating of them. This is different from “seeing” in the sense of “understanding”. Here the verb, “to see”, is used as a means to convey to us, who are physical and finite, something which is also finite, but began at some point in the infinite.
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, ". . . the evening in the morning were the first day". This seems to be the start of time. Apparently, God was not satisfied with darkness and water alone because he did not "see" that they, were good. When God created light, he "saw" that it was good.
We as created beings can not know apart from God’s description what precisely occurred at the creation because we were not there before day one. No one was. We have only God’s description to us. Else we can make stuff up like, "Everything came from nothing and gradually established order upon itself to end up as people, who say confidently, 'Everything came from nothing' ".
