Gen. 1:3

Bible Verse Notes

Bible Verse Notes

Then God said, “Let there be light; and there was light.”

1. These are the first words spoken by God in Scripture.
2. God gives the command to bring forth light.
3. Light appears in obedience.
4. This verse witnesses that all things must yield in obedience to God.
5. God completely controls all things.
6. Implies the awesome authority of God.
7. Articulates the complete power of God.
8. The light will dispel the darkness as Jesus will later dispel the darkness of sin with His light.
9. Symbolic of Christ coming into the world, in related verse, John 1;5, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
10. Symbolic of God’s holiness and purity.
1 John 1:5, “This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.”
 
Bible Verse Notes said:
Then God said, “Let there be light; and there was light.”
8. The light will dispel the darkness as Jesus will later dispel the darkness of sin with His light.
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Good morning, BVN;

What Point 8 says to me in the context of Genesis 1:3; darkness had its connotations according to God's Creation but the light brings structure and order the same way God works in our lives.

God bless you, BVN.
 
Good Afternoon BVM,
bobinfaith said:
Good morning, BVN;

What Point 8 says to me in the context of Genesis 1:3; darkness had its connotations according to God's Creation but the light brings structure and order the same way God works in our lives.

God bless you, BVN.
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Bible Verse Notes said:
Then God said, “Let there be light; and there was light.”

1. These are the first words spoken by God in Scripture.
2. God gives the command to bring forth light.
3. Light appears in obedience.
4. This verse witnesses that all things must yield in obedience to God.
5. God completely controls all things.
6. Implies the awesome authority of God.
7. Articulates the complete power of God.
8. The light will dispel the darkness as Jesus will later dispel the darkness of sin with His light.
9. Symbolic of Christ coming into the world, in related verse, John 1;5, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
10. Symbolic of God’s holiness and purity.
1 John 1:5, “This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.”
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I wonder if the usage of light could also reflect a place without Evil?
But for Eve to be tempted there had to be evil existed.
And we know this because satan, a fallen angel, is considered to be the embodiment of evil, and his pride and rebellion against God occurred before humanity’s creation (Genesis 3, Jude 6).
So would this mean that God created this place to have the Light over shadowing the darkness.
Could be a direct metaphor of Light, with the temptation of the darkness.

Good Afternoon as well Bobinfaith,
I think that also encompasses the idea of structure through the light as well.
Being a positive to the darkness.
 
In Kabbalah,(Jewish mysticism) there is a thing called "Tzimtzim"

Tzimtzum describes the first step in the process by which God began the process of creation by withdrawing his own essence from an area, creating an area in which creation could begin and where he could exist as reshimu (residue) in all empty spaces in the world.
 
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