The dark earth was formless and empty. It was not made of baryonic molecules at this point.
It is refreshing to see an interpretation that does not assume that the Earth was already a globe with oceans at this point.
My interpretation is that the universe itself did not exist in Genesis 1:1. That comes later.
Genesis 1:1 is describing the
creation of the Spirit Realm only. In other words, God is creating the First Heaven or 'Heaven of Heavens'...
Nehemiah 9:6
"Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee."
The reason Earth was 'without form and void' is because it was just an idea being planned out. It was a 'circle on paper', like a napkin sketch...
Proverbs 8:27
"When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth"
God is the architect.
The 'circle on the paper' theme is what Science calls 'Strings'...
"In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings."
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The 'paper' is called a Worldsheet...
The Worldsheet is the 'Waters' and the 'Face of the Deep' that existed before the universe, i.e., the World Volume existed. The Waters is also called the 'Abyss'...
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M-Theory is the closest I have seen to describing the Creation in a Scientific manner...
"M-theory is a theory in physics that unifies all consistent versions of superstring theory."
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Visible photons were created.
You may want to consider that these Photons were not yet visible. In other words, their Wave Function had not collapsed into Particles yet. Hence the Photons existed the Spirit Realm of the Wave Function.
Note that 'Light' can also refer to 'order out of chaos' and 'logic rising from non-logic'. In other words, "Let there be Light" is like saying, "Let there be the Word of God"...
John 12:46
"I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness."
God is not bounded by space-time.
Yes. Since God created the Three Heavens, God exists outside of it in a special place...
1 Timothy 6:16
"Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen."
It is the Logos. It is a place of Consuming Fire and Information. It is the 'Power Everlasting' of the Unified Field. It is that which manifests reality...
Hebrews 11:3
"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
The Bible teaches we are in a type of Simulation.
This was not a 24-hour day as we know it today.
I disagree. I believe in literal twenty-four-hour days in the Creation Account. There is no compelling reason not to.
God turned the dark waters/matter earth into ordinary-matter earth.
In my opinion, Particles as we know them did not appear until after the Fall. The Prelapsarian Universe was the Spirit Realm of Waves. The Forbidden Fruit caused the universe to be 'cursed'...
Genesis 3:17
"And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life"
The 'curse' is what Science calls the Big Bang. Again, it was more of a Wave Function collapse into Particles.
Billions of years may have passed while God re-created the universe with the curse.
Anyhow, the creation of the World Volume from the Worldsheet occurred here...
Genesis 1:7
"And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so."
God created three-dimensional 'space'. We call that the universe. It is the Second Heaven...
The 'Waters Above' is the 'Glass Dome' of Hebrew Cosmology. It represents the furthest edges of the universe. It is what separates our world from the Spirit Realm (3D from 4D). The 'Waters Below' is the Underworld, Abyss, etc. It separates 3D from 2D.
The 'Glass Dome' is also the Sea of Glass that the Angels stand on...
Revelation 15:2
"And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God."
I made a presentation on this topic for those interested...
