“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Much has been written about the various ideas concerning how we got here. Let’s take a look at this first verse of the Bible.

I am admittedly not a Hebrew scholar. But after thousands of years of Biblical translations, the message remains the same. God spoke the universe into existence. There are those who claim He took a L O N G time to do that. the Bible says differently.

So let’s look at the first day as recorded in the Bible, then understand how this could be.

“1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.”

“The earth was without form, and void.” At this point we don’t know yet what it was composed of, but God immediately tells us it was made of water: “and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” The deep tells us the earth began as water. This is further confirmed by the next statement: “And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”

Here is my personal observation: Any time the Spirit of God focuses on someone or something, He is aligning the object of his attention with the will of God. As He was hovering over the waters, He was aligning the H²O molecules (a polar molecule – meaning it has a positive side and a negative side). In essence, He magnetized the water, which with all the molecules aligned creates a North Pole and a South Pole. This in turn, necessarily forms a sphere (no longer without form.)

This is critical to understand verses 3-5. A polar sphere is necessary to be able to spin around an axis. So when God said “Let there be light, and there was light”, we have light on one side of the sphere of water, and darkness on the other side of the sphere, with the sphere itself spinning on its axis.

This is confirmed by the explanation that He separated the darkness from the light, gave them names (day and night). We know that the earth (at this point a sphere of water) was turning, because God tells us “so the evening and the morning were the first day.” As it turned, it alternately faced the light, then the darkness, just as it does to this day.

It really does not take rocket science to read the plain text of Scripture and believe it. “Evening”, “Morning”, and “first day” are all plain terms that practically scream to us that it was a 24 hour period.

To assume any other explanation is to directly challenge the authority of Scripture as God’s Word to us.