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The First Day

There was a time when time began, before that, there was no time. God created time, he is not bound in the dimension of time as we are. He is above and beyond time.

Before the beginning, there was no space, again God is not bound in space or area as we know them.

Before the beginning, there was no mass, as we know mass today.

God created these three, time, space, and matter in one verse.

Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

For the word "heaven"- we find the Hebrew word- - shaw-mah'-yim, which conveys, space, and sky, the area, which makes up the universe.

For the word "earth"- we find the Hebrew word- - eh'-rets, which means the entire globe of the Earth, being made firm.
We find eh'-rets being used in the book of Isaiah 40:22 "...the circle of the earth..."
Yes- Bible readers always knew that the Earth was a sphere.

Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

 

The earth was without form... In Hebrew we see the word void used for "to'-hoo", which means a vast flatland, without mountains or valleys. It is possible that the surface of the earth looked like one of Jupiter's large moons- Europa, which is covered by thick sheets of water ice.

The reason why I believe that it was covered with ice, is because there was no atmosphere created yet, so liquid water would have boiled into space. (With lower atmospheric pressure, water boils at lower temperatures, at about 5 millibars, water boils at only 1 degree Celsius. The atmospheric pressure at "sea level" on Earth today is about 1000 millibars.)

 

How do I know that there was water on the Earth?
The word "deep" is from the Hebrew word - teh-home'- which means a huge mass of water. We also see that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

In one verse, God created the the entire light spectrum.

Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

We then see that where ever the light is, darkness, cannot be.
God is light and his presence lit the early Earth and heaven.

Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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