Genesis Retold

In the beginning there was nothingness.  And God filled nothingness.  In nothingness, there was room for naught but God.

And God spoke.  “Let there be light!”  And God’s Word created light.  Light burst forth in countless points of brilliant energy.  What had been nothingness became light, and light raced forth, its points separating and combining.  And space formed between the points in an ever-expanding Divine thought.  God saw the light God’s Word had created.  And God considered the possibilities, and knew that it was good.

And God spoke again.  “Let there be matter!”  And God’s Word brought forth the elements and gave them structure and shape.  And they formed solids, liquids and gases.  And in God’s time, they combined to form stars and planets, comets and asteroids, matter and anti-matter and structures yet unknown to creation, but well known to God.  And God saw the matter God’s Word had created and considered the possibilities.  And God knew that it was good.

And God spoke again.  “Let there be life!”  And God’s Word created life.  Chemicals combined into structures that could use the energy created by God’s Word to sustain and reproduce life, suited to the conditions throughout creation where it could evolve into more complex forms.  Some were suited to living in liquid and others to living in gases or on solid land.  Some forms used the energy of God’s light and others were energized from those forms that used God’s light.  And God saw the life that God’s Word had created, in its simplicity, its complexity and its harmony.  And God considered the possibilities.  And God knew that it was good.

 

And God spoke once more.  “Let there be life in my image!”  And God’s Word created a Divine spark in one of the living creatures.  And the Divine spark made those creatures unlike any of the others created by God’s Word.  By this spark, these creatures received intelligence and memory; reason and wisdom.  And God breathed on this spark, and it grew into a flame that gave these creatures a burning desire to know God and to be with God for all eternity.  And God considered the possibilities.

 

And God rested.