Walk In Light - Genesis 1-3

Genesis 1:3-5 (ESV)

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

The opening of Genesis begins with the phrase God said mulitple times.  That phrase is always followed by God saw that it was good, or, as above, a combination like that.  When God speaks, it is good.  We ought to rejoice in that aspect of creation.  God speaks and that makes things good.  In the above passage it is the creation of light that makes it good.  Imagine living in permenant darkness.   There was a torture method in war that put an enemy combatant into a dark cell for days, just to exact from them some type of information.  Imagine that on the human condition on a regular basis.  What would happen if we had no light?  Here was a response from AI:

If there were no light, the world would plunge into darkness, photosynthesis would stop, plants and most animals would die, temperatures would plummet, the oceans would freeze, and human civilization would collapse as electricity, communication, and food systems fail, turning Earth into a frozen, uninhabitable wasteland, though some deep-sea life near geothermal vents might survive. 

This is why God created light first.   Without it  we cannot exist.   Nothing He was about to create would exist.   It is interesting that God did not eliminate darkness, He simply gave it boundaries.  It shows God’s ability to take something that, on appearance, had no use, and make it useful for Him.  God can take darkness and use it for His glory.  The boundaries of light and dark give us our days.   The darkness gives us a time to rest and recover.   God designed us this way.  Of course, we are later told this, by Jesus, about mankind and darkness:

John 3:19 (ESV)

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

Jesus is the light of world.  He is the life giving light. Without Jesus light we cannot have life.   I wonder what AI would say about that?   HI (Human Intelligence) does not readily recognize Jesus is the light of the world.  Why? 

2 Corinthians 4:3-4 (ESV)

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

God came to give light to mankind.  He started with light and will end with light:

Revelation 22:5 (ESV)

And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.