Genesis Dive

I saw God's original plan, still in place despite having traveled so far off course along the way, unfold in front of me.  All you need is a partner and you can do anything.  God did not have a real method (a consensual one, one we would remember and acknowledge as real) of interacting with us as deeply as God would have liked.  God used time to essentially "lumiere" onto humanity, to leave a lasting image by taking an overwhelming image and spacing out its exposure, much like a photograph.  God knew how strenuous this process would be, so he provided each with a partner, knowing that as long as they connected, that connection could be strong enough to emotionally supplant even our connection to God in degree of tangibility (Gen 2:24). Once Jesus enters the picture I think this makes more sense, since Adam and Eve have no earthly parents, driving them beyond any other force imaginable to find each other and in doing so find God.

So I reread Geneses 1:1-2 with new eyes, and saw the masterful construction at work in the structure of the words.  God created the heavens and the earth.  Here we see two things as separate right off the bat, a binary system of separation that begins layering in the next verse.  Our focus is at this point drawn to the earth- "Now the earth was formless and empty."  Describing nothing in a certain way is a fantastic method to describe an object tied to the one with nothing.  Here we see that since the earth is "formless" one naturally pictures the heavens with form, as such an assumption is required in order to picture something without form, for comparison.  Since the earth is empty, the heavens must contain something, or empty would be a meaningless descriptor.

So, without having explicitly done anything with the heavens yet, God has created a mental image, albeit subconscious, in the reader's mind's eye, where the heavens' reality is somehow connected to the earth's, but without any additional information on how they are connected, besides that the heavens must have form and something in them.  The additional changes don't give us any additional information at this point, but the 6 days of creation and steps contained therein are some of the most memorable in the Bible; I would be surprised if at some point this combination of compounded changes doesn't return as a possible counterpoint or mirror when heaven is later described or directly witnessed.

More interesting here, I think, is that in John 1:1 another description of the beginning is provided. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God."  This could be referencing that creating this mental image in the reader is fundamental for the image to work (or at least the Word's ability to operate).  Additionally we see that overlapping identities are referenced as well.  This overlapping entity concept is only revealed so directly when Jesus is, rather than at the outset of creation, which I believe ties into the concept of lumiere, an image forming over time, especially considering that understanding how these entities overlap is still a mystery to some degree.

As God, if you knew that when everything ended, you would still be God, but you would only keep one memory, the Bible would be an excellent "Word" to have memorized, because it's like reminding yourself the beginning of a story you've told countless times, and the rest unfolds from like a tapestry from the God equivalent of muscle memory, in the real sense of gestures sparking speech, sparking memory of the entire story once more, a cascade of reality erupting from two locations (heavens and earth) and two descriptors of nothing (formless and empty).

In reality, Genesis 1:1 would lead to the rest.  If all you remembered was "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."  As God, you would wonder about what the earth was like, but all you would see there would be nothing, without form.  Then the assumption would become that the heavens have form and matter as a counterpoint to earth, and the rest proceeds from there.  I'm certain God could do it with less, if this line of logic is even entirely applicable (I generally don't personify God, but a personification of God in this case doesn't seem too far off).

Moving on to the surface of the deep

Spirit of God- Concept of Spirit, different than the rest of creation, as it came first.  It also is separated from the other locations.  Again, a binary formation with the material and the spiritual.

Waters- different word than depths, but the reference of the face stays the same- either the same face or the same identifying features, a twinning function essentially, such that two features are now the same, the faces of the depth and waters (although the unexplained transition from one to the next is curious, perhaps a subplot of one jumping into unknown depths and finding these depths are water, although it would have to be someone besides the Spirit of God, hovering above).

And God said "Let there be light."  Also John 1:4 "In him was life and that life was the light of men."  From our understanding, which I believe is accurate enough for the point, God picked out one tiny bandwidth of the EM field soup (which I'm guessing was present at this time in the darkness/depths, based on how we would see it) and revealed it.  This is like a beacon, both in space time for the birth of Jesus, and for the reader to realize that in this way, we were born, collectively, with the ability to identify our savior, by the light, by sight.  Additionally, I believe there is a parallel thread here, from the perspective of the Bible being the instrument to find your soulmate, and true love- we have a beacon for our soulmate as well.