The World and the Word

                              Speculation on Creation

Genesis 1:1 relates that God created the heaven and the earth. God created heaven for the abode of Himself and His saints, and the earth for the abode of humans. In His creations of heaven and earth, God began an historical process by which He could test His Love. Since God has created all things, then He must have created the heavens, which is His universe, long before He created the heaven and the earth. Revelation 4:11. God must have also created the sun and moon and the entire solar system when He created the heaven and the earth.

When God first observed the earth before He created it, He saw that "the earth was without form, and void," and "darkness" covered this "deep." Genesis 1:2. In Isaiah 45:7, God admits that He created darkness and even evil. Darkness already existed before God created the earth. But God could not have deliberately created evil. God created evil only in the sense that He unknowingly allowed it to emerge into His creations of the heaven and the earth. God felt guilty about evil becoming destructive of His good creations even though He is completely innocent of its destructive emergence into His creations. Since God is absolutely Holy and Perfect, then He must also be Innocent. God's innocent guilt about evil only proves that He is Holy and Perfect. His guilt shows His Love.

When God observed the darkness that covered the deep, in all innocence, He regarded the darkness as merely His creation of something that covered His idea of nothing; that is, space. God is Omniscient, but He knows only an Infinite Goodness. God had no idea that this darkness actually covered a nonexistent void from which evil would emerge as negative consciousnesses called devils. God must have unknowingly and accidentally caused this nonexistent void when He began to create the universe. God now realizes that below the positive idea of nothing a less than nothing nonexists. Isaiah 40:17. How such an entity as an evil, negative consciousness could both seem to exist and nonexist at the same time remains a complete mystery to the wholly positive Consciousness of God. II Thessalonians 2:7.