na, you're just trying to create an argument that isn't there, if All things were made by him (the word); and without him (the word)was not any thing made that was made (which is scripture) then the statement in the beginning God created (which is scripture), is that very thing that all included in the first verse other than God was made, therefore through His Word. just because it was void full of darkness and without form doesn't mean it wasn't made, just not brought in to conformity to accommodate the presence of life therein. again no assumptions, just obvious observation of what is there and the knowledge of how it got there, knowing it was through His Word.
Those words certainly are scripture and God certainly did create the heavens and the earth and he did it in 6 days just as it is written;
Exodus 20:
11For
in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them
is, and rested the seventh day...
Not only did these words of God get spoken to men but it was also;
Deut 9:10 ....written with the finger of God,....
God created the heavens and the earth IN SIX DAYS and not prior to that. Gen 1:1 is a description of what God did in the beginning (time) and the beginning (time) consisted of 6 days of creation and one day of rest. You cannot break Gods word by insisting that he did these things in 1.
No where in any of Gods word does he assert that he made anything other than the heavens and the earth described within the 6 days of the creation account.
If you have any scripture.... any at all.... that would support your assumption then by all means provide your references.
all you are trying to do is to get some believers to think that something was before God, nope, you're most definitely incorrect, and seemingly disingenuous.anyways the scriptures state the God inhabits eternity;
Isa_57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
There was never anything before God since he is eternal no matter how you would like to twist my words however, the conceptual ideas of time and space have apparently existed alongside God for eternity as well since he never asserts the creation of such.
I would also point out that your reference to
Isa_57:15 also states
"with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit" so, is it also your conjecture that God has existed an eternity with someone else who has a contrite and humble spirit?
I think it is also worthy of pointing out that God says that he inhabits....(lives within) eternity... logic dictates that if he exists within eternity and eternity cannot exist without the existence of time...
Eternity
1. infinite time; duration without beginning or end.
Then time and space have also always existed.
but its on you to prove anything that exists that inhabits eternity other than God. and since you require scripture, then find the scripture that says so.
Actually it is not.
God never says that time and space did not exist or that he made it, so, It is on you to prove by God's word that he did make time and space. My bible states quite clearly that he created the heavens and the earth described in
the 6 days of creation and the construction of the heavens are described here on the second day;
Gen1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning
were the second day.
Sounds clearly like heaven is a construction within space and time to me and the construction of the earth is described here on the third day;
Gen 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13
And the evening and the morning were the third day.
and the earth also appears to be a construction within space and time just like heaven. If you would like to show by Gods word how this can be understood any other way then you know what you have to do.
So heaven was created on the second day and earth on the third day, which you cannot scripturally counter but you still have not answered my question ----"If God is light then what did God create on day 1"-----
Matt 13:
35That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been
kept secret from the foundation of the world.
John 17:
5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was....
8...and have known surely that I came out from thee.....
24....that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.