Jim,

             That was an extremely interesting letter.

I’ve believed pretty much the same thing for a while now.

Your letter makes a very good case, though.

 

You have really provoked my thinking.

You mentioned that the LORD could have done it all in less than a microsecond, but he didn’t.

So why did he spread out the creation during that first week?

Why did he only do some things on certain days?

 

Why did he rest on the seventh day? I would imagine it would be for more than only to establish a basis for the sabbath commandment.

I’m sure that he wasn’t wore out or tired (a benefit of omnipotence).

What does rest mean for him? How did he rest?

I also don’t think that it was so that he could keep one day holy.

After all, he is “Holy, holy, holy”, he can’t do or be anything but holy, on any day or time.

 

Why did he start out with the earth without form and void?

I know that the “gap theorists” would pull out one of those “Hebrews 101” cards, stressing that it really means “became” without form and void.

No doubt some like this pre-Adamic world gap theory, because then they don’t stand out too much to the evolutionists, as wacko-bible-thumping-literalists.

However, forgetting all that “Book of Urantia” style apocryphal approach , there may be a reason for the “without form and void”, at least to me.

Adam also was made the same way, he started out without form and void.

 

Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

 

Starting out as dust of the ground, Adam was formless and void.

Next, the LORD formed Adam.

The LORD took formless dust and then formed it into a man.

However, at this point, the newly formed man was still void, he had no soul or spirit.

Next, the LORD filled that void.

The LORD breathed the breath of life into the void, newly formed man.

So the man became a living soul, and was no longer void.

This is similar, in some ways, to the way that he formed & filled the earth.

It seems, at least to me, to be a picture of a lost person, receiving the gospel and being saved.

 

Anyway, you really started me thinking, and to ask a lot of questions.

Why did the LORD do the creation the way that he did & in the time that he did it?

 

It also makes me see a little more about light.

There appears to be three levels of light.

The third level, physical light, wasn’t made until the fourth day, when he made the sun and the stars.

The second level of light, spiritual light, was made the first day, when the LORD said, “let there be light”.

It is interesting to note that time was setup according to the spiritual light, not the physical light.

There was the “evening and morning” of the “first day”, before there was a sun, stars, or physical light.

The first level of light is the LORD’s light, and in John’s first epistle it even says that God is light.

 

Do you have an idea why the LORD spread out his creation over that first week like that?

                          Thank you,

                                       Gino