We have begun a study of the Book of Genesis, and thus far, we’ve come to understand that an Eternal Being, not subject to time, space or matter, has created the same, vis-à-vis all that exists in our universe in a moment. Absolutely nothing subject to change, including space itself, existed, but, suddenly, everything was there. How great the envelope of space exploded to in that moment would be conjecture. Who could know? Moreover, how long it took the stars and galaxies to come to be in relation to one another, as they are today, is also conjecture. The Big Bang model claims everything exploded from a singularity, infinitely tiny and dense, taking billions of light years to travel to where we see them today.
While it is true that the objects in space do move through the fabric of space, are they moving away from a singularity? …or did God bring them into existence, and set them in motion in relatively the same positions they occupy today, relative to one another, all traveling at great speeds, even colliding from time to time? We aren’t given answers to such questions, perhaps, indicating that this information is there, in the objects of the universe, and through study, we could discover those answers for ourselves. However, this is beyond the purpose of this study in the word of God, the Bible.
When we come to the second verse of the Book of Genesis, we discover, or it is implied that everything in the universe, beyond the neighborhood of Earth, has already been created, perhaps, even having their places relative to one another already set in motion. What God is concerned with at this point is the physical things that concern our Earth. At this point, Earth, perhaps meaning our entire solar system, had no form. It was in utter chaos, land, gases, heat and water intermingling and indistinguishable, and darkness was upon the face of the deep (Genesis 1:2). Next, we are introduced, so to speak, to the Spirit of God, who is the other Figure of creation, the God working upon the universe, but we’ll speak of him in more detail, and how there is but one God, later, when we get to chapter two. For now, he is the Word or Expression of God that causes everything to happen. He moved (H7363) over the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2), like an eagle flutters or hovers (H7363) over its young (Deuteronomy 32:10-11).
Then God spoke, saying, “Let there be light!” and there was light (Genesis 1:3). However, if all things in the universe were created and set in place before this moment in time, why was there no light on the face of the deep? As I mentioned above, the Earth was without form and void, but earth may incorporate our entire solar system. If this is so, then, at this point God created the Sun, which gave light to the Earth and the rest of the solar system. In fact, it may be so, that at this point God created or gave order to our entire solar system.
When God created the Sun, he considered its light intently, and regarded it as good or mature, lacking nothing (Genesis 1:4), and he divided the light from the darkness, meaning, he caused Earth to spin on its axis. This idea of dividing things is important. It is mentioned in other places in chapter one, either to express a contrast or to further explain the contrast that was made earlier (cp. verses 4, 6, 7, 14, 18). We’ll speak more of dividing things in their proper places.
So, God called the light Day, and he called the darkness Night. The evening and the morning, vis-à-vis the time it took from one sunset to another was the first day of creation, which for all intents and purposes is the “beginning” of time (Genesis 1:5). The evening incorporates that division. The division takes place after one complete night and one complete day has occurred. Did it take 24 hours for God to create everything? No, it took 24 hours for God to make a single day of time. God doesn’t live in time nor is he limited by time. The first day is still present with God. All time is present with him, so it is foolish to ask how long it took for God to create the universe. From our perspective it took God 24 hours to create a day. From God’s perspective, the “first day” still exists.
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