We know that God created a place other than where He was. I believe this was the heavens and the earth.
But He didn't leave it that way.
He came and His Spirit was over the face of the deep, darkness, and He said let there be light in this dark place.
A word study, including all of the roots that the words came from, of the beginning of Genesis, makes you see that this darkness was something awful. He didn't create it except in the sense of what being thrown from His Presence creates.
This is why we all answered that God did not create darkness, even though a verse says He does, but that is in a negative manner, not a positive manner of: let there be..
But He didn't leave it that way.
He came and His Spirit was over the face of the deep, darkness, and He said let there be light in this dark place.
A word study, including all of the roots that the words came from, of the beginning of Genesis, makes you see that this darkness was something awful. He didn't create it except in the sense of what being thrown from His Presence creates.
This is why we all answered that God did not create darkness, even though a verse says He does, but that is in a negative manner, not a positive manner of: let there be..
Isa 45:7 I form H3335 the light, H216 and create H1254 darkness: H2822 I make H6213 peace, H7965 and create H1254 evil: H7451 I H589 the LORD H3068 do H6213 all H3605 these H428 things.
Ive always believed this was a positive-negative type kind of thing. He forms light-darkness is created. Kind of before there was light, there was nothing but darkness. After light, darkness has a form appearing when light is out. Does this make sense? It kind of does to me. Same with peace -evil. So I'm agreeing with you stunned. I'm a gap theorist and to me there was nothing but an earth in complete chaos. Not going to get into the nitty gritty of all the dynamics of different ideas of what occurred.
So looking at this plus there is no darkness in Him at all, He is pure Light, then possibly His very presence has also a negative. Darkness, which in creating the heavens and earth....the opposite of heaven- earth. Life-death. Eternal-lake of fire?
So my conclusion? Preach Jesus! His death and resurrection for all mankind and let Him fill in the rest. Lol