What happened in the Beginning

My thoughts on the first chapter of THE BOOK!!!

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Ok we all know that, even my 3 and 4 year old know that and they will will finish it with a Genesis 1;1. Wasn't that the 1st day? That is what I had always come to believe. But what was created on the FIRST DAY? Light and darkness were created on the 1st day. So does that explain why the earth can date back longer than 'the first day'?

By counting generations the Earth would be about 6000 years old. So if that is true how does our earth date back much much further than that? Well the bible states that God created the heavens and the earth IN THE BEGINNING. Not the first day, just in the beginning and then it goes on to say 1:2The earth was unformed and void, darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water. (cjb) So the 1st day was sometime later. The bible doesn't state how long the earth sat here until the creation of light and day.

So in the beginning God, lets stop right there. We hear of so many anymore, buddha, allah, krishna. But who is THE God? Are we all talking about the same one? You can only know the true God by his name and characteristics. The Hebrew word for God is Elohim. This is NOT God's name. Elohim is a title. Its is a plural title. This opens the door to so much. God is one, but he is many later grew the concept; the Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Whenever you see the the letters 'i-m' ending a Hebrew word, you know it is speaking of more than one. There is also another usage in Hebrew of the i-m ending. it's called the 'plural of majesty' it can also note greatness.

Why is there such a debate over when things happened in the bible? Like what day this or that took place? Jesus followed different calendar and times of when day started and ended for instance. That would explain the confusion of quite a few things. Like just an example when he died and rose again on the 3rd day. Does the new day start in the morning? No the biblical calendar goes as stated in Gen. 1:5 ......So there was evening, and there was morning, one day. so the biblical day started at sunset and ended at sunset.

So what was this light and darkness that He created on the first day? The sun and moon was not created until the 4th day. The Hebrew word for light is owr which means enlightenment. When the Bible says that God is light is says Elohim is light. Owr is associated with life and joy and good. Now in 1:14 there is an entirely different word there. It is meotor. That is where the meteor comes from and it means an object that emits light.

So on that 1st day He created illumination and enlightenment, a basic requirement for life. Darkness on the other hand, the word for that used is choshek, which means something that leads to death and destruction. So is the same light that he talks about in Revelation when He creates the new earth? THe hebrew word for night is layil which is used on the mention of the 4th day. Is this 'owr' the the light or Glory that is used to describe God throughout the whole bible?

The last point that sparked my interest is us being made in the image of GOd. What does that mean? It means that we have certain attributes that He has. Not all of well that would make us a God. Out of all the things that God created on this earth man is the only thing that can know God by the spirit. We are the only creatures with a spirit and it is our spirits that allow communion with the living God.