Ge 1: Day 1

Ge 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Ge 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.

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

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

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

Before the beginning

Before God said "Let there be light", what was there? There was God and there was dark. Since God created everything, and dark was not created, dark must be an attribute of God. Dark is NOT evil as many say, because God is not evil. The two primary attributes of God are Love, and Holiness. One way that holiness is expressed is through separation. It intended that we understand that God is not like us. He is completely different.

But before the creation, even though God was holy, it could not be expressed because there was nothing to be separate from. The only expression of the attributes of God was darkness, representing love. Since this contradicts what the Greeks taught us, it is important that we explain how darkness came to represent evil.

If one is sinful, and has not yet experienced the wrath of God, then they are currently covered in his grace, which is one expression of love. So the sinner is in darkness. Jesus said to the woman "Go and sin no more". We should live a live of holiness, not one which presumes and demands upon Gods grace. "Be ye therefore Holy". It is easy to see how God's love for sinners could be verbalized that darkness is evil. But from God's view, he is pouring out his love when men are in darkness.

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As soon as God created, he revealed that he is separate from his creation ("Let there be Light"). But his holiness (light) and his love (dark) are two aspects of the one God:

Ps 139:12 ... the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].

He expresses himself to his creation through the two aspects, because if we mix Holiness and Love, we understand neither. If a judge lets a criminal go free we cry that there is no justice. But if we are the criminal and don't get to go free, we cry that there is no mercy.

Only Christ on the cross can mix Holiness and Love to reveal the nature of the Father. All the laws against mixing two things are the same metaphor. One thing will represent love and the other holiness. All of these laws have their metaphoric source in Day 1.

Christ is the morning and evening, reconciling Holiness to Love and Love to Holiness. In the light of day there is the shadow of grace, and in the grace of the Night, their is the holiness of the lights in the firmament.

But we do not understand the Light at all. When God's holiness was revealed to those receiving grace, they did not understand.

Joh 1:5 ¶ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Rather than acknowledge God as God they claimed equality with God (Ro 1:18ff). Intimacy with God is impossible if we do not acknowledge that He alone is God.

The rest of scripture, and the history of mankind, is a lesson that God alone is God. Once we understand it, we can then understand the grace we have received "while we were yet sinners". He gives us what we want (to be gods, and declaring good and evil for ourselves) and lets us wallow in the consequences of it. Eventually everyone cries out that it is not supposed to be this way and every knee bows and every tongue confesses... Just as the Law is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, the suffering you and I produce by sin is designed to make us so miserable that we cry out to God.

Day 1 the revelation of Holiness and grace. We will see this in more detail when the narrative concerning Adam is unpacked.