Genesis 1:1-10

Genesis 1 (New International Version, ©2010)

Genesis 1

The Beginning

¹ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ² Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

³ And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ⁴ God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

⁶ And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” ⁷ So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. ⁸ God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

⁹ And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. ¹⁰ God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

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Reflections:

It seems to me that, when God told these things to Moses, He knew that we would have questions about the Creation, and He made things very clear to us about what happened. He stated something, and then it was created as so. Already reinforcing that His Word is definite, that what He says, will be so. Though also, as a father is teaching his children, explaining each step of the way.

He could be like other impersonal gods in other religions, where they just narrate how their gods created the world, and a lot of which contains a lot of mystery and glory, but not a lot of them created the earth thinking it was for us to live on.

This passage brings to mind how Jesus also did the same thing, at one time when He was praying, He had prayed out loud for the benefit of His disciples, as He didn't need if He was just praying to His Father.