And Darkness Was Upon the Face of the Deep
Day zero: A reexamination of the prologue to the seven days of creation
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
(Gen 1:1–2 KJV)
When I read this, I see an encrypted text.
Matter and Space
There isn’t much to this section, which gives us the opportunity to examine it in detail. We begin with the creation of heaven and earth. The heavens are black, given that light hasn’t been created yet. This being the case, the earth is suspended in an area of black nothingness. God creates something and also creates the area of nothing that surrounds it.
The earth is described as formless and empty, but if the earth is covered in water as the text implies, then it would seem that the description of the earth might actually be a reflection of the heavens above; formless and empty.
