Another Atheistic Bible Study Of Genesis Chapter One Verse One

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My first feature on the opening chapter and verse of The Bible confined itself to the opening three words, In The Beginning. Now I’m looking at what supposedly, allegedly happened in the beginning. This is the first day of the six day creation process. If we take the Jewish Sabbath (day of rest) as being the Saturday, the first stage of creation occurred on the Sunday. We are told simply that he created the heavens and the Earth, and that the Earth was at this stage, formless. There was darkness on the surface of the deep. It sounds as though the Earth is at this stage just a lump of building material, like a builder’ concrete, cement, clay and bricks, waiting to be shaped into a house. The darkness seems inevitable as God hasn’t yet witched on The Light or invented the Sun. The deep sound as if it should be an ocean, and the next line describes the face of God moving on (possibly reflected on) the waters. Without light how the God face is seen (and by who given no one witnesses this) is unknown. Also, how can an omnipotent and omnipresent (everywhere) entity be small enough to have his face glint off water in the dark or even in the light? Why also has he created the waters? Where did he get them from? Very big buckets? His own bladder? That God has a face actually sets limitations on his supposed omnipotency. He becomes a giant but not a being who could be everywhere. If his eye is somewhere then his big toe nail has to be somewhere else. He cannot possibly be everywhere and have form. Then there are the heavens. Stars and planets are due later in the creation process, so what are the heavens beyond the void around the Earth, which would be there even if God hadn’t rolled a misshapen ball into our planet. God now creates the Light, looks at it and likes it. What exactly is this light as the Sun’s creation comes later? God separates the light from the darkness and labels them night and day. The Sun, that actually gives the day its light when shining on that half of the planet will actually mark the day and night, but God claims credit for it before even giving us The Sun. This ends the first day, the Sunday. Arthur Chappell