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 their 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.
אמר said, word, lamb
- אֱמֹר - said, word
- אִמְּרִ - lamb
With modern vowels, one is led to believe that they are different words. But they were the same word when Jesus read them.
God SAID "Let there be light". He created light by his WORD. The WORD is the LAMB.
Ge 1:1 in Mark
I am sure that the notes on John usage of Ge 1:1 sound crazy to many. As it stands alone that is understandable. However, as we see such word-play in usage throughout scripture, it becomes much more familiar and comfortable. It might be suggested that the NT authors were attempting to teach us how to read scripture that way. Mark also interprets the first three words of Genesis 1 using the metaphor of the letters.
The primary metaphor for the aleph א is that "God spoke and created the heavens and the earth".
We can also see the "Spirit hovering on the face of the waters", "the firmament between the waters". John uses it for Spirit in 1Jo 5:8. The gospel of Thomas uses it for 'war'. This is a secondary metaphor. It is consistent with the Biblical usage since "the carnal mind is enmity with God". There is a war between heaven and earth.
(I do not suggest that the Gospel of Thomas should be scripture. It is a book of riddle that people think is Gnostic because they attempt to read it literally... whole 'nother discussion.)
The cross is the ante-type of the firmament, as Christ reconciles holiness and grace, and brings peace between heaven and earth. Mark recognizing the fulfillment takes it the next step and suggests that the aleph represents the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Let's see it in Hebrew: The beginning of the son (Jesus Christ) (reconciling heaven and earth, the gospel) of God.
בראשית בר א אלהים
And here is Gen 1:1
בראשית ברא אלהים
Both Mark/Peter and John use the metaphor of the letters as they interpret the first three words of Ge 1:1.