Decentralization in Roman Catholic Teaching

I'm no expert on Catholic Social Justice teachings, but I do know that decentralization is a fundamental teaching among others. Take for example these famous quotes by Pope Pius IX from Quadragesimo anno

"Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do. For every social activity ought of its very nature to furnish help to the members of the body social, and never destroy and absorb them."

"It is a fundamental principle of social philosophy, fixed and unchangeable, that one should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry."

By and large, small communities have the ability to take care of themselves. Perhaps a band of two hundred cannot protect themselves from a nuclear attack, but they certainly can accomplish wonders.  A healthy family itself is pretty powerful and can accomplish a lot if not tampered with.  

The psychopathic transnational elites understand this all too well and so they stealthily fight to centralize all aspects of human life from conception to death using banks, corporations and violent governments as mediators.  In this modern era the world cycles through endless economic collapses, international wars, corporate oversights, domestic tensions, existential threats, psychological warfare and so on; while all aspects of life inch ever closer to complete control by the globalists.  Perhaps a large percentage of this is by design. If your average person can figure out ways to work the system, you better believe that a loose band of highly motivated narcissistic sociopaths embedded across creation in high places can figure out ways to blend in and work the system if not control all sides of it.  This is the synagogue of Satan spoken of by Jesus in Revelation.  

I wonder just how much of my thought through life was invented by them for their nefarious purposes, and wish to purge it all.     

There way is not the Catholic way.  

Genesis Series: The Light Event

At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. ---(Mathew 11:25)

If we once realize all this earth as it is, we should find ourselves in a land of miracles: we shall discover a new planet at the moment that we discover our own. Among all the strange things that men have forgotten, the most universal and catastrophic lapse of memory is that by which they have forgotten that they are living on a star. ---(G.K. Chesterton, From The Defendant) 

For the Spirit being one, and holding the place of light, was between the water and the Heaven . . . ---(Theophilus ad Autolycus, Genesis Commentary)

You sent forth your Spirit, they were created, and you renewed the face of the Earth. ---(Psalm 104:30) 

While these changes were going on upon the dark globe, I saw, as it were, a streaming forth of light out of that highest of all the spheres, the Godsphere, that sphere in which God dwelt. ---(Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, from Mysteries of the Old Testament)  

Scattering left and right a thousand favors he went streaming by these regions, quick as light. And where it touched, his eye left a new glory over earth and sky. ---(St. John of the Cross, from the Spiritual Canticle, n. 5, translated by John Frederick Nims)

Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you possess understanding!
Who set its measurements – if you know –

  or who stretched a measuring line across it? 

    ​​​​​​​On what were its bases set,

     or who laid its cornerstone – 

     when the morning stars sang in chorus,

      and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 

(Job 38:4-7)

Postdiction

Genesis 1 is a narrative. A narrative describes consummated events. I assume that the sacred author derived his narrative from a prophetic dream. God stimulated the sacred author’s brain to make a movie, a vision. It was as if the sacred prophet was there when all this he describes happened. After his prophetic dream he committed to writing what he saw. This choice and process of tracing was also stimulated by God in what is usually called Inspiration. The sacred author is making a statement of facts of consummated phenomena that he understood happened in the past.

We could define phenomena as dynamic relations mediated by objects (mediators). A mediator is an object that communicates phenomena between one object and another object. These statement of facts of consummated phenomena derived from prophecy are validated by the Resurrection of Christ Jesus and every other Miracle performed by God in the past, present or future. And so we could call this Script a set of postdictions: descriptions of past events without error.

And God said, “Let light happen”

The first event of the prophetic movie was the light-event. The setting of the light-event is the Earth. This is indisputable. If one even so much suggests energy or Big-Bang or matter or Universe as an interpretation in this context, he has to his great shame contradicted the first and second verses of the sacred story. The Big-Bang cannot happen after the Spirit is emitted to an astronomical object named Earth. If one is not happy with the setting of this story I suggest he find another God and another Sacred Script.

The agents collectively consummating the light-event are God who is in Heaven, the Spirit—sent by God to the Earth, moving back and forth over the Earth---and finally Earth herself. Earth is the target object of the light event. Earth is the target. Earth. God the Father and the Son in Heaven and God Spirit connecting Earth to Heaven are the mediators who will consummate the light event. God had moved Himself and Heaven very close to the astronomical object we call Earth. And he emitted the Spirit to Earth so as to act as the go between in this miracle called light.

The sacred author was privy to the light event via a prophetic dream induced by God. With this light event we are really asking ourselves: what happened? Notice I have the Hebrew verb hayah translated as ‘happen’ instead of be or exist. This is a valid interpretation within this context. The meaning implied in this Script is that some sort of dynamic relation happened between God who was in Heaven and the Earth by means of the Spirit of God. 'Exist' or 'be' is a static concept which describes objects, i.e. they stand out, have location. Light on the other hand refers to a dynamic concept. Concepts, such as light lack form, and so light is strictly speaking disqualified from existence or being. Light describes existing objects consummating phenomena.

My interpretation of “And God said” has a double meaning. The Holy Father gave a command to the missive Spirit so as to enact the light event AND the sacred author was made privy to this command by actually hearing God’s description of his conception in the prophetic dream.  God could have simply stimulated the prophet's nerve fibers and auditory cortex responsible for interpreting sound.  Like a dream sometimes it is as if we hear one of our loved ones or friends talking to us out loud when in reality they are no where near.  There is no possible way that a pious Jew would dare quote God unless he was thoroughly convinced and compelled to the degree of prophecy.

In any case, the concept God conceived for his miraculous action is light. Light refers to a dynamic concept, a moving relation. Light is a verb. Has anyone ever seen an object called light??? Does light have form? If it does draw me a picture of light. Is this not obvious? Even the Hebrew word for light is derived from a verb translated: to make luminous. Light is a relationship between two or more objects usually atoms inter-mediated by that invisible fundamental subatomic object which connects all atoms, and from which all atoms derive their form. For simplicity lets just call that nexus a ray as in ray of light. Atoms stimulate one another via these rays connecting them, the same from which they derive their form. But in this our story, the two objects in the dynamic relation are God and Earth and the intermediary is the Spirit of God moving over Earth’s surface. Light figuratively references a miraculous relation between God and Earth via the Spirit who has been sent forth to Earth to be present and act on behalf of the Holy Father, and His only begotten Son. It is implied that God emitted the Spirit to the Earth in Gen 1:2. And so light figuratively refers to God’s dynamic relation with the Earth via the Spirit. God enters into a moving relationship with the Earth.

God uses light as his concept of what he does to the Earth. God worked the Earth similar to how atoms or stars illuminate a target object. It is AS IF God is a star which illuminates another star, in this case a cold and icy dark star, the Earthen star. The Spirit is like a ray and may have even appeared by a gargantuan ray in the prophetic movie which happened in the sacred author's brain. God miraculously stimulated the face of the Earth AS IF a Star, AS IF a Sun. God is like the Sun in this story.  The Earth rotated so that God’s supernatural action mediated by the Spirit eventually stimulated the entire face of the Earth, from east to west, over and back again, in a Divine Day.

In this context day is a figurative, comparative idea used by the sacred author to describe that which was happening.  Time is simply a comparison between two or more motions where one motion is assumed to be regular, cyclical, constant, etc.  The sacred author figured the days he experienced on Earth to this Divine prophetic Day in which God locked himself into this relation with the Earth. This miraculous phenomenon was like the daylight we now experience on Earth in relation to the Sun. The Sun’s action lights up a limited surface area of Earth to frequencies beyond which is what we call darkness. The Sun gets the atoms of the Earth and her atmosphere flickering, but God did much more so, so much so that a modern atmosphere burst forth. And like a present day on Earth in one direction (parallel to the imaginary equatorial plane) it was a Divine morning, in the other direction it is a Divine evening. This is “God divided the light from darkness” concept in the fourth verse along with the evening and morning concepts.

There is also a literal meaning of light in this context. It is perhaps more often than not in prophecies, that a Word of God will assume both literal and figurative meanings, e.g. John the Baptist figuratively prepared the way for Jesus by preparing the people's heart's via preaching and his baptism.  That is not all.  John the Baptist also literally built paths, seats, arbors, baptismal fonts, etc. that Jesus and the Apostles and Disciples would later use. And so it is God, from Heaven, literally lit up the face of the Earth, for the duration He miraculously transfigured her surface. If you were in a spaceship observing the Earth long ago when this Divine light event happened you would see an illuminated Earth shimmering in different colors and her surface features changing, transforming, etc. The sacred prophet saw this in his dream and understood what had happened. But God modeled his Miracles of transforming the face of the Earth just like the days we would understand in the future. It was suppose to be easy to figure out, and yet we have adulterated this Sacred Text with our delusions of grandeur . . . so much so that I am sad to say perhaps only a child would believe this interpretation.

God uses the idea of light to communicate his intention and the work He wrought with the Earth. God, just beyond the Earth in Heaven, makes a connection to the Earth via the Spirit and then stimulates the face of the Earth via the Spirit, in a similar manner that all atoms are connected and stimulate one another via an invisible subatomic nexus. Think of God as an artisan miraculously creating and carving out forms in the Earth’s sluggish surface, via the Spirit, in a singular miraculous light event. Like a laser stylistically etching wood or some other material. Like a beam of light causing plumes of atoms and gas molecules to wrap around the Earth in bands, in layers, in style! God performed elegantly. Like a master pianist, or artist performing stylistically yet with breathtaking efficiency. One can almost taste the grandeur and cutthroat efficiency in the sacred author's poised word and structure of narrative.  It was beautiful and incomparable.       

The sacred author’s follow up statement, "And light happened" confirms that this Script is a narrative relating events. Event, happening, phenomenon, occurrence, incident, etc. Whatever you will. Once God completes his act of terraforming, as the Earth naturally rotates, he ceases his miracle, and the Spirit returns to Heaven. The sacred author describes this as God taking rest. God retires at completion of this miracle.  God thoroughly wrought a Deed with great desire. When the Deed was completed, he saw it all, relaxed, enjoyed, and left Adam and Eve to their free will and deliberation. Soon later Adam and Eve would sin disobeying God which forced God's hand to curse and change the Earth from its pristine condition of the light event.

The Light Event is the Matrix Event of all the Events in Genesis 1 Narrative 

God changed the face of the Earth which at that time was an old inactive compressed star (and still is). The Earth was not irradiating a full spectrum. She was dark. Earth was once what they call a free-floating exoplanet, moving between stars. But even before it became an exoplanet it was perhaps an active fusing star with a diverse history of marching around our galaxy. Earth began as all stars do, and developed in accord with its original mass. After billions of years of shedding atoms, and after she synthesized molecules, chemicals, crystallized and perhaps acquired some heavy metals and supplemental water . . . after likely billions or in the trillions of Angels rebelled: God established a singular relation with the Earth via the missive Spirit and changed her surface structure, formed a virgin atmosphere, continents, plants, microorganisms, soils, animals and finally Adam and Eve. God changed Earth's color and appearance especially when he placed the Earth near the Sun together with all the other ‘planets’ and our moon reflecting light to her from the Sun.  We can think of all these as sub-events happening within a single unified light event.

In this light event God created immaculate and prototypical plants and animals as well as Paradise and made everything we love on the Earth such as the atmosphere, landmasses, the seas, some mountains, hills, lakes, etc. AS IT FIRST WAS in a virgin state before sin entered through Adam and Eve and so God cursed it and it has had to suffer various harms and evolution ever since. Microorganisms originated with the miraculous creation of the first plants and animals and the resurfacing of the Earth with fertile soils; these in an ecosystem. God created the original microorganisms to have a beneficial symbiotic relationship with the prototypical plants and animals and entire Earth, especially our soil. God also moved the the Sun and the Moon together with the Earth so that the Earth would move around the Sun and benefit from her rays. God also moved in the stars, i.e. so called planets such as Jupiter which are really ancient star systems.  And yet prior to all this the Earth was a wandering star, marching around the galaxy near the newer Sun. 

This event is the light event. A single, unique, utterly miraculous, and extraordinary event which had not happened prior or has not happened since in all the vast history of what we call Universe. The light event, as I call it did not take long at all. It was a sudden and spontaneous transformation that culminated in the creation of Adam and Eve with God temporarily retiring, leaving Adam and Eve to their own thoughts and deliberate actions in Paradise. The light-event was a stunning miracle, yes shocking by today’s unimaginative and unbelieving standards.

The Light Event is not the Creation of "Light"

This verse does not refer to a creation of light from nothing or by way of anything. God did not create a physical entity called light since light refers to a concept of a physical phenomenon constantly performed by atomic and invisible subatomic objects. Light is an action performed by physical mediators namely atoms and those hypothetical continuous physical entities between all atoms. These mediate light signals to and from all atoms of the universe (c squared). God did not literally create light, rather God created the objects that do the work of light between all atoms of the universe. They act between atoms and their action is rooted in the atoms. Light is our concept, invoking the action of all these objects. God used this concept that he understood we would conceive, so as to communicate his Miracle with the Earth. But the invisible objects that perform the work of light, acting between atoms, I suppose were first created at the miraculous event of creation ex nihilo which happened a long, long time before the supernatural event described in Genesis 1:3.

Earth is Elect

Genesis 1:3 refers to the initiation of a supernatural phenomenon, a Divine event, a Divine action and in a more integral sense a process worked by God (One Day, second day, third day, fourth and so on). The light event is the matrix or root description of the entire narrative. The light event subsumes all the events of the entire narrative. This process is not a physical process worked by Mother Nature (so to speak). It is rather a Divine process in which the Three Divine Persons, namely the Father and the Son and the Spirit, act as mediators. The Three, by their inherent quality called Almighty, move to transform the face of the pre-existing and predefined astronomical object called Earth. An object called light IS NOT the target object of their miraculous action. Earth is the target object of their miraculous action, figuratively conceived by God as light.

The phenomenon described in Gen 1:3 is supernatural, miraculous, suprarational, wonderful. Oh God my miracle! God miraculously terraformed this old dark star. And this Divine phenomenon was not imparted to any other star in the Universe in all history. Earth is elect. Earth is graced. God desired her. God initiated his relationship with planet Earth by renewing it, reshaping its surface, reforming it. He made it his special object with a goal of Christ Jesus and all his plans with the human family. In the light event, the Holy Father prepared Earth as an altar for Jesus. The result of the light miracle is that the Earth transformed from an old dark star to what is communicated in Genesis One: A renewed star, with bright places, a layered sphere, living entities, a place around the Sun, animals, and Man, specifically the first male and female of the human family, named Adam and Eve. God elected this astronomical object from its foundation as a bright yellow main sequence star, however the light event is its formal adoption into God’s plan, yes God’s plan not Mother Nature’s plan.

This said, Earth's election IN NO WAY IMPLIES that Earth is the center of a concept called Universe or that the Sun revolves around the Earth like the puerile neo-Geocentrists still think. This Sacred Script has nothing to do with the Grecian doctrine of Geocentrism, and everything to do with this supernatural light event God enacted with the Earth.  It does not matter where Earth is located in relation to all other stars and galaxies ... all that matters is that God chose her for his purposes.  Is this not obvious to a believer? 

God stimulated the Earth like no other. He graced her. He, Personally, transfigured her. He worked her. And he continues to do this this in subtle ways in spite of the fact we are destroying her. God chose and loved Earth above all others. There will never be another star like Earth. And we are not even to the end yet, for God will make the Earth new yet again after the Resurrection and Last Judgment. God will form a New Earth from the ashes of the old.

Like I said, this event initiated by God and described in the simple and humble words . . . . is singular, unique, one of a kind. Nothing like this miracle happened before it and nothing like it has happened since. The only other forecast event I can think of that is anything like the light-event is perhaps the future creation of the New Earth.

God goes out of Himself. God reached out to an astronomical object called the Earth and transformed it for Christ Jesus and us. It is as if he married Earth.  He made it OUR home and one of his future homes in the New Earth when he will descend.  And in spite of our sins and tendencies to sin and ruin all that is good and beautiful; Earth is obviously still very precious and God will resurrect her again after the Tribulation.    

What the light is NOT

The light does not reference the faithful Angels. The narrative is clearly focused on an object called Earth. Earth is described by the sacred author with surface features, namely an abyss with its synonym the waters, prior to the main event. If you take the interpretive route of Angels you have to explain why the darkness representing the fallen angels is communicated prior to the good Angels. And you have to explain what the earth was an astonishing-desert, with darkness over the face of the abyss, etc. What do these figuratively represent and how do they fit into the unified-integrated, consistent flow of the narrative? One cannot explain these without stretching the language too far beyond that of reason, critical thinking, rational analysis. We perform these once we assume Faith.

The light does not represent the light of the Big-Bang. The Big-Bang is a modern myth even according to its adherents. Besides if the light were the light of the Big-Bang then the second verse would have to be interpreted as pre Big-Bang which would be blatantly absurd. Would Earth refer to a primeval atom? Then you are on the level of a drunken stoner named Edgar Allan Poe. He interpreted the second verse as the primeval atom.

The light does not resolve to the light from the Sun. The Sun is not mentioned until the fourth event of the narrative.

The light does not resolve to the stars and galaxies. Genesis One is a prophetic narrative. Prophetic authors usually do not narrate didactic categories. They don't fop around with categories. The only part that is even remotely didactic is the fourth part when God and the sacred author explain why the Earth was placed in a system in relation to the Sun and other planets. That is easy to understand. For the plants God had formed, and later mankind would use the motion of the Earth in a comparative relation called time. Yet again, the sacred author is narrating a prophetically observed event, a supernatural phenomenon which he observed via prophecy just like Blessed Anne Catherine. He describes these events with detachment.  To him they no doubt happened. Something happened to the Earth. Besides if the light represented a category of stars and galaxies the second verse would have to be prior to the stars and galaxies. It would be describing matter’s creation ex nihilo? Then where would you go from there? What would the expanse/firmament represent? Our galaxy or our solar system?

The light does not resolve to the natural light described and explained in physics. The objects that perform the work of light were created at matter’s creation ex nihilo, before there was an Earth which is clearly described as an object (that which has form) in the first and second verses. The mediator of light between atoms is DNA like, an intertwining thread, that constantly waves in a mode of torsion. This invisible and fundamental subatomic object mediates twisting signals to and from all atoms, in a manner described by c = frequency * linklength. This same entity mediates gravity. The atom derives its form from this fundamental entity and also uses it to perform electricity and magnetism. The second verse would have no meaning if the third verse light resolved to natural light.

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich's Version

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich had a similar vision concerning the light event to that of the sacred author.

Blessed Anne describes:

Immediately after the prayer of the faithful choirs and that movement in the Godhead, I saw below me, not far from and to the right of the world of shadows, another dark globe arise [Earth]. 

I fixed my eyes steadily upon it. I beheld it as if in movement, growing larger and larger, as it were, bright spots breaking out upon it and encircling it like luminous bands. Here and there, they stretched out into brighter, broader plains, and at that moment I saw the form of the land setting boundaries to the water. In the bright places I saw a movement as of life, and on the land I beheld vegetation springing forth and myriads of living things arising. Child that I was, I fancied the plants were moving about. 

Up to this moment, there was only a gray light like the sunrise, like early morn breaking over the earth, like nature awakening from sleep. And now all other parts of the picture faded. The sky became blue, the sun burst forth, but I saw only one part of the earth lighted up and shining. That spot was charming, glorious, and I thought: Theres Paradise! 

While these changes were going on upon the dark globe, I saw, as it were, a streaming forth of light out of that highest of all the spheres, the Godsphere, that sphere in which God dwelt. 

It was as if the sun rose higher in the heavens, as if bright morning were awakening. It was the first morning. No created being had any knowledge of it, and it seemed as if all those created things had been there forever in their unsullied innocence. As the sun rose higher, I saw the plants and trees growing larger and larger. The waters became clearer and holier, colors grew purer and brighter everything was unspeakably charming. Creation was not then as it is now. Plants and flowers and trees had other forms. They are wild and misshapen now compared with what they were, for all things are now thoroughly degenerate. 

Before the sun appeared, earthly things were puny; but in his beams they gradually increased in size, until they attained full growth. 

The trees did not stand close together. Of all plants, at least of the largest, I saw only one of each kind, and they stood apart like seedlings set out in a garden bed. Vegetation was luxuriant, perfectly green, of a species pure, sound, and exempt from decay. (From Mysteries of the Old Testament)

What Happened to Adam and Eve?

I believe Adam and Eve were created in the beginning of Earth's history with God described in this light event above.  And yet how do I, a man of faith, and also a man of reason reconcile this in my mind with the vast history of the Earth described in modern science.  This is a dazzling riddle, a sort of riddle to end all riddles.  Fortunately, there are some clues given through the eyes of faith.  Below I will share my speculation.  But before I share it I think it is important to briefly revisit through the Sacred Script exactly how and where Adam and Eve were created.   

 

Genesis Series: The Waters of Genesis 1:2

In a beginning, God had created the form Heaven and the form Earth. And when Earth existed as an astonishing-desert with darkness over a face of abyss and the Spirit of God oscillating over the face of the waters. (my translation)

The Waters

The waters of Gen 1:2 are textually inserted as parallel to the abyss so as to reinforce the idea that Earth had a water supply prior to the main event. Abyss refers to a concept. It could be defined as a gathering or a body or a supply of waters regardless of where the waters are located. The abyss could be located over the crust as in the oceans or within the crust as in the fresh water reserves and all over the globe. Here the sacred author prophetically conceived and understood that the Earth's surface consisted of a water supply just prior to the light-event. He clarifies or reinforces his conception by restating a face of waters in a parallel structure.

My interpretation is that the Earth is an old transitioned star if not simply a rogue planet not originating in the cloud of dust and gas around our Sun. In her transitional process from an active-fusing star to the inactive condition of today: outer layers of oxygen atoms and hydrogen atoms synthesized to H2O molecules and eventually settled to the surface, perhaps even helping the old star cool and form a primitive crust. Earth's water supply is perhaps homegrown. Perhaps one could assume that there was liquid hydrogen in the surface of the Earth star and this liquid hydrogen was exposed to a supply of oxygen fused in the star itself. The liquid hydrogen reacted and the natural byproduct is H2O vapor. Water vapor condenses, falls to the surface over a long time and there are your oceans. Simple as that. Its a simple reaction. Liquid hydrogen and oxygen naturally produce water without any need of light stimulant. Perhaps some other water was assumed in Earth's circle around the galaxy. For example she may have passed through several interstellar clouds in her galactic rotation and assumed traces of H20 or even D20 (deuterium oxide).

The sacred author conceptualized Earth in a prophetic trance or dream state of the brain causally imparted by God, as she was prior to the light event. At that time she could have been tens of billions of years old (note I reject Big-Bang and solar nebular hypothesis). She was moving between stars, not far away from a newer star, our Sun and not yet locked into an orbital system with the Sun. Her surface consisted of real H2O molecules and a host of chemicals such as methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and other volatiles. The waters may not have been frozen over completely because of the mingling of chemicals. Perhaps a there were thin layers of ice covering bodies of water and chemicals as well as a primitive crust like the Jovian satellite Europa is conceived. This is how the Earth could on one hand be described as a tohu wabohu (astonishing-desert or wasteland) and yet on the other hand described as containing a water supply.

In the light event God causes the waters, both literal and figurative to burst out, establishes new landmasses and the waters settle to become the pristine Seas in which God forms the first generation sea creatures through which after the Fall of Adam and Eve some modern species descended.

Genesis Series: The Spirit of God (Ruach ha'Elohim)

In a beginning, God had created the form Heaven and the form Earth.  And when Earth was an astonishing-desert with darkness over a face of abyss, and the Spirit of God oscillating over the face of the waters: (My Translation)

Does the the 'Ruwach' refer to an Object or to a Concept?

In the Christian tradition, the Hebrew ruwach is translated as Spirit (capital 'S' with a definite article 'the') in the Gen 1:2 context. And this is my translation. I note that the sacred author did not mark the word 'ruwach' with a definite article and this seems to imply that he did not quite understand what he saw. Regardless he described what he saw and this is traced as "a Spirit of God" or " a Divine Spirit."

I assume the sacred author experienced a prophecy stimulated by God. And then he described what he saw. He described objects and dynamic relations mediated by objects. Some of these objects were Divine and some of the phenomena were miraculous (or supernatural). He saw the form of the Earth as if from orbit. And later he traced a basic description of her facial features: astonishing-desert, abyss and the waters. He described Earth's surface and surroundings as dark. And he traced a contrast to the darkness described in the words 'a Spirit of God moving'. This Spirit of God was moving in direct relation to the Earth.

The first issue to resolve is whether or not this Spirit refers to an object or to a concept. Did the sacred author see an object, with a prophetically visible form that he could distinguish? My answer is an unequivocal yes. Why? Because the sacred author describes this Spirit of God performing an action: the Spirit was moving or was moved . . . in relation to Earth's surface. One can only apply motion to objects of existence. If the Spirit of God referred to a concept the sacred author would have traced nonsense since motion does not apply to concepts. Concepts (a relation of two or more objects worked out by the brain) do not move. Motion does not move.  The sacred author did not irrationally convert a concept into an object. Some assume the sacred authors and the God who inspired them uttered and traced nonsense in these most crucial of contexts but I am not one of them. 

The sacred author described an object using the Hebrew name 'ruwach'. This word basically refers to an object effused from a source object.  Here object is defined as that which has form. Sometimes it is translated as breath which is air (object) moving out of the lungs (objects). 

Now it is left for us to resolve what type of object this mysterious spirit may be.  The sacred author qualifies the Spirit with the genitive noun form: God. This object has an intimate relation with God. By virtue of the genitive form this Spirit belongs to God or better yet originates in God. The Spirit is an object emitted from God who is in Heaven down to the Earth. The Spirit is the Mediator between the two objects God and Earth.

And this is why I think the author decided to label this object as Spirit. He saw that an object was emitted from God in Heaven to the Earth. Spirit in this context refers to an object streaming forth from God. Spirit resolves to an object that the sacred author saw in his vision. Little did the sacred author know that this effused object would be recognized by Christians as the Holy Spirit.

The Interpretation of Christians

For this context most Christians in history have interpreted this word to refer to the Third Divine Object who the First Divine Object and Second Divine Object eternally generate in a singular relation that defies reason and rationale. The Trinitarian relations are inconceivable and impossible to reason alone. The Third Divine Presence labelled 'Holy Spirit' eternally proceeds from the Father and the Son. This singular Divine relation is applied to mediate miraculous Divine phenomena such as the light event of Genesis 1. From Heaven, the Father and the Son send forth the Spirit to the Earth similar to how the Spirit eternally proceeds from the Father and the Son.  The sacred author understood that this object was streaming forth from God in Heaven to the Earth without yet understanding that this object was a Personal Identity of the Trinity. Saint John Paul II explains this well.

Even though in the light of the texts of Isaiah the salvific work of the Messiah, the Servant of the Lord, includes the action of the Spirit which is carried out through himself, nevertheless in the Old Testament context there is no suggestion of a distinction of subjects, or of the Divine Persons as they subsist in the mystery of the Trinity, and as they are later revealed in the New Testament. Both in Isaiah and in the whole of the Old Testament the personality of the Holy Spirit is completely hidden: in the revelation of the one God, as also in the foretelling of the future Messiah. (Dominum et Vivificantem, n. 17)

The sacred author did not realize that this Divine Object he saw was a Divine Personal Identity. But he understood that what he saw was from God and of God and modified the label as such: of God: ruwach ha'Elohim.  And I assume that the sacred author saw the miraculous appearance of the Spirit for the purposes of relating events to all Mankind.

So now all that is left is to speculate on why God emitted the Spirit . . . how the Spirit miraculously appeared to the sacred author in the vision . . . and why he may have appeared that way? What Divine concept was conveyed to us via the prophetic experience and tracing of the sacred author? You might be surprised at the simplicity of what I have come up with. But you should not be. A hint has always been traced in the third verse command: Let light happen.  But before we delve into the above questions I would like to correct some associations in context to Genesis 1:2.

The Myth Mongers

From the appearance of Christ Jesus to the present Christians have understood that the Spirit described by the sacred author in this Gen 1:2 context refers to the Third Divine Person of the Holy Trinity. The Spirit proceeds (springs up) from the Father and the Son (Nicene Creed). And consistent with the One Divine Eternal Generation He is emitted to mediate Divine Acts. The Christian association is indisputable, and I could run a pretty long list of references but this will only waste internet space. With the Christian interpretation came the capitalization of the word 'Spirit' with a definite article "the" in reference to His Divine Majesty. The understanding of the Sacred Script has evolved with the coming of Christ Jesus. Jesus opened the Scriptures to his followers.

Suffice it to say that the modern myth mongers propose a 'mighty wind' or a 'divine wind' translation which challenges the traditional interpretation. In Faith, there is no rationale or justification for the translation and interpretation of 'a mighty wind'. The rational translations provide for Spirit of God as do the faith inspired translations.

The 'mighty wind' translation stems from the scholar's romance with the Ancient Near East myths. They were so convinced of a correlation between Genesis 1 and Enuma Elish or some other myth that they took it upon themselves to irrationally manipulate words. Wind is a dynamic concept relating physical objects namely air in two or more locations parallel to the Earth's surface. You cannot move wind. By conception and definition wind is moving air in relation to Earth or some object on Earth. Whoever first conceived of 'wind' in whatever language associated something moving parallel to the Earth's surface. They conceptualized to understand invisible air colliding with objects (like trees) parallel to the Earth's surface. Wind is by definition atoms moving parallel to the surface of the Earth. Wind is a superverb with the subject air, built into the verb to move or rush. Thus their translation and interpretation critically fails in contextual grammar. "mighty wind moving over a surface" is a superfluous contradiction. You cannot move concepts. You cannot move motion.  To move wind is to irrationally convert a concept into an object.

Spirit of God refers to a Divine object that the sacred author saw moving over the Earth's surface and mediated the Divine phenomena. This object was clarified by Christ Jesus and His Church as the Third Divine Object of the Trinity. The Spirit of Christ was moving over the surface of the Earth in view of Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit is a Divine Object who performs actions. Concepts conceived of by Man such as wind do not perform actions. Objects, whether Divine, angelic, spiritual (as in the soul) or physical impart causal actions.

The myth scholars are addicted to syntactical grammar and myths, when they should assume Faith and apply contextual grammar. Sentences in linguistic grammars are context-sensitive and thus have two stages of grammatical verification: syntax and context. Once we verify that the syntax conforms to the syntactical rules of grammar, we ascribe meaning to the sentence using the analytical phase of contextual grammar. 'Mighty wind' or 'divine wind' moved over the surface of the Earth fails in the analytical phase of contextual grammar. And it fails in a Faith analysis.

And more, wind has no source object. From what source object does the wind come from? Do angels blow the wind out of their mouths? Wind is a conceptual embodiment or invocation of two or more locations of gaseous atoms parallel the internal structure of the Earth. Atoms of the outer layers move and interact with the atoms of structures built up from the crust. That is the action labelled wind. The myth mongers use of wind defies the fact that Spirit originates in God.  There is no source of wind. It is a concept: a relation of two or more objects. Concepts have no source. They are conceptualized by Man via neurons banking memories of objects.

The mythic manipulation of Genesis 1 is ridiculous. It is a terrible experience to witness the 'mighty wind' or 'divine wind' translation and interpretations among scholars with assumed authority.

Answers to Questions

My Translation of Genesis 1:1-2

In a beginning, God had created the form of Heaven and the form of Earth, and when Earth existed as an astonishing-desert with darkness over a face of abyss, and the Spirit of God oscillating over the face of the waters.

I am of the opinion that Genesis 1 is a Sacred Text based on a prophecy. I assume that this Sacred Script is based off of a vision God mediated to a holy ancient (perhaps Job, Moses, or Solomon in his height of holiness and wisdom). I raised some questions above such as

How did the Spirit appear to the sacred author in the miraculous vision?
Why did the Spirit appear the way He did?
What Divine concept was conveyed to us via the vision and tracing of the sacred author?

I will answer these questions in an interpretive theory and this will lead me into an interpretation of the Hebrew word merahepet.

Supernatural Event

Before I attempt to answer these questions I want to call to mind that in the Sacred Scripts an emission of the Spirit accompanies supernatural events. In context of Divine Revelation, supernatural refers to a concept that God performs that which is genuinely impossible, inconceivable, suprarational, extraordinary to the brain. A genuine miracle worked by God cannot be scientifically explained, or formally validated using petty logic. My God is a God of genuine miracles. God does that which is impossible in terms of Mother Nature.

When God sends the Spirit to an object such as Jesus, or Mary, or the young Church gathered together in the Upper Room, a supernatural phenomenon occurs. The Father does not send the Spirit on a whim, right? Nor does He send the Spirit to merely overlook or guide natural processes, right? Angels can administer providence. The sending forth of the Spirit is an extraordinary favor that usually induces a supernatural event, right? God is a God of miracles, right? We do not need P.H.D.'s or letters behind our names to figure this out . . . right?

Examples of the Spirit described as mediating a supernatural phenomenon in the Sacred Script should be obvious to any Christian. It is important that I at least given one example since this argument underlies my interpretation of Genesis 1. Lets take the Incarnation for an example:

From the Gospel of Matthew: After his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they lived together, she was found to have conceived in her womb by the Holy Spirit.

From the Gospel of Luke: And in response, the Angel said to her: “The Holy Spirit will pass over you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. And because of this also, the Holy One who will be born of you shall be called the Son of God. 

Description from the visions of Blessed Anne: The ceiling of the room vanished, and over the house appeared a luminous cloud with a pathway of light leading up from it to the opened heaven. Far up in the source of this light, I beheld a vision of the Most Holy Trinity. It was like a triangle of glory, and I thought that I saw therein the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. As Mary uttered the words: "May it be done unto me according to thy word!" I saw an apparition [appearance] of the Holy Ghost. The countenance was human and the whole apparition surrounded by dazzling splendor, as if surrounded by wings. From the breast and hands, I saw issuing three streams of light. They penetrated the right side of the Blessed Virgin and united into one under her heart. . . She, entirely absorbed in self, saw in herself the Incarnate Son of God, a tiny, human form of light with all the members, even to the little fingers perfect. It was about midnight that I saw this mystery.

There are also the examples of the Baptism of Jesus and Pentecost. There are also some examples of Old Testament prophets or kings induced to perform some extraordinary action via the Spirit.

It is no different in the event described in Genesis 1. The Spirit is sent to mediate a supernatural event that is unique in the history of the Universe. Anyone who attempts to interpret the events of Genesis 1 as natural physical processes has overlooked the formidable presence of the Spirit of God in this Text. When the Spirit is present, a unique supernatural event takes place. Do you really think that the sacred author just inserted a description of the Spirit of God as a little side note? I do not. I think He saw a significant apparition of the Spirit and prophetically witnessed a stupendous miracle unlike any other in history of the Universe.

Law of Causality Applied to Frame the Context

The Spirit was sent to Personally mediate (impart causal actions) to the target Earth. The causal actions are miraculous, done at the Divine Will. Earth's face changes as the Spirit imparts a miraculous stimulation. The output of the events is a transfigured Earth orbiting the Sun with living objects on its surface including Adam and Eve. At event-consummation, the seventh day, God retires from His miraculous work.

I suppose that the Earth was an old dark star moving in our galaxy close to the newer Sun, but not yet locked into a gravitational relation (inverse square regime, orbit). When the Spirit was sent to the Earth, Earth was located between stars or interstellar space as we say. I suppose that God moved Heaven near to the Earth and emitted the Spirit to the Earth, thus establishing a singular connection between God and the Earth. God locked Himself into a relationship with the Earth via the Spirit, and the Spirit mediated God's Desires in view of Christ Jesus. The Spirit effectively changes the face of the Earth in a course of miraculous events that are traced by the sacred author in the Genesis 1 narrative.

The sacred author was privy to God's conceptualization and choices.  And he saw the miraculous 'change effects' of the Earth's face imparted by the Spirit in the duration of the light event. Genesis 1 is not a narrative of the Universe's creation ex nihilo. It is rather a narrative of the Earth's change or her transformation.  I call it the light-event. This is a unique supernatural phenomenon. The Mediators of the light event are the Father, the Son, and the missive Spirit. The target object is the Earth. At the light event's consummation there is an output that is a transfigured Earth orbiting the Sun with a new atmosphere, and living objects on the surface including Adam and Eve. The Moon (another old dark star) is also brought into a locked gravitational system with the Earth.

Let me restate this again. I assume that the Earth was a naturally transformed star or rogue planet peacefully moving around the galactic core. Its time is inestimable. It could have existed for tens of billions of years prior to the light event described in Genesis 1:3. At some juncture of the past, after the fall of some angels, God moves Heaven close to the Earth, sends the Spirit to the Earth and changes her.

The missive Spirit of God imparted a supernatural causal action to the Earth's surface, effectively changing her face and guiding her into a locked orbit around the Sun all in accord with the Divine commands related in Genesis 1. There is nothing natural about my interpretation. God defies Mother Nature.

Before moving on let me summarize the context using Aristotle's Law of Causality:

Aristotle’s Law of Causality is stated as follows:

A Mediator or Mediators (object A) impart causal action to a Target (object B)

The Law of Causality was originally meant to be applied to physical objects but I will slightly modify for my context. In this context object A is God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. So we will label object A as A1, A2, A3. This context is unique since the Spirit (object A3) is emitted from the Father (object A1) and the Son (object A2) in Heaven to the Earth, thus establishing a supernatural connection so as to miraculously interact with the Earth. The Spirit (A3) mediates the chosen concepts of the Father and the Son (object A1 and object A2). Object B is the Earth, specifically her surface as it was sometime in the past, perhaps billions of years ago and prior to the appearance of life and moving between stars.

Its specific application in the context of the Light-Event (or Transfiguration of the Earth) could be stated as follows:

Mediators (object A1, A2, A3) impart causal action to a Target (object B). At event consummation, there is a resulting Output (object C)

Object C is the changed Earth. Her appearance is transfigured with the additions of a new atmosphere, defined landmasses, defined oceans, and living objects moving on their own on Earth's surface in spite of gravity. The event consummation is described by the sacred author in his seventh day.

The concepts pertaining to the Light-Event are:

Cause: The “act” of miraculously imparting action with the Earth (object B) as performed by God (object A1, A2, A3).

Effect: The “change” realized by the Earth (object B) during the duration of the “causal action” imparted by God (object A1, A2, A3). .

Light-Event: The phenomenon of transfiguration from initiation of transfiguration (Let light happen), to termination of transfiguration described as God blessing his work and ceasing from his work. An event is always consummated. The sacred author clearly understood this.

The actors participating in the Light-Event are:

Object A: The Mediator object (Father A1, Son A2, and Spirit A3) imparting “causal action”.
Object B: The Target object (the Earth) undergoing “change effect”.
Object C: The Output object (transfigured Earth) resulting from the consummated event.

Remember “Cause” and “effect” are verbs. They resolve to concepts conceived by Aristotle or some other Greek. Concepts do not refer to objects. A concept invokes or embodies two or more objects (that which has form). There is no such thing as ‘a’ cause or ‘an’ event; ‘a’ cause or ‘an’ event does not exist. Only objects, like God and the Earth exist.  Cause is a concept that refers to what object A (God) does to object B (Earth). Effect is a concept that refers to the “change” realized by object B (Earth) during the duration of the “causal action” imparted by object A (God). An event is a specific phenomenon from the initiation of the phenomenon to the consummation of the phenomenon. A phenomenon is a dynamic relation of objects mediated by objects.

Light Event:

1) At light-event initiation, the Mediator (A3, or the Spirit) moves toward the Target object (the Earth) and imparts a miraculous interaction with the Earth in accord with A1 and A2's command.

2) At this stage, the Spirit has imparted “causal action” to the Target object.

3) Simultaneously with 2, “change effect” is realized by the Target object while supernaturally interacting with the Mediator, specifically A3.

4) At light-event termination, the phenomenon is formally termed: Consummated Event

The Spirit Appeared to the Sacred Prophet as a Ray extending from the Heaven to the Earth

The Spirit of God changed the Earth. He is the intervening object between God and the Earth. The Father and the Son also impart supernatural causal action to the Earth, since God always acts as One, but they do this by way of the Spirit which they emitted. The sacred prophet must have seen something in his vision, otherwise how could he have described a Spirit of God moving over the Earth's surface waters? So my question is just how did the Spirit appear to the sacred author in the dynamic of the prophecy?

The sending forth of the Spirit is rooted in God's decision: Let light happen. The Divine word concept 'Let light happen' has a superficial meaning as well as a deeper meaning. The superficial meaning is that God literally lit up the surface of the Earth in the work of this event. God literally stimulated the entire surface of the cold dark Earth and in this her atoms tapped into the subatomic objects which mediate light at higher frequencies. If there was an observer in orbit he would register the change of colors.

The deeper meaning is that God locks Himself into a dynamic relationship with the Earth so as to induce Her transfiguration. Light is a phenomenon. A phenomenon is a dynamic relation of objects mediated by a connected object(s). In the case of light phenomena, atoms stimulate atoms via subatomic objects which interconnect all hydrogen atoms (or protons and neutrons of the Universe) in addition to serving so as to impart form to them all. This invisible physical mediator connecting all atoms has a form like a double twined thread and has unique properties. But the important point to take from this assumption is that all that atoms of the Universe are connected by this fundamental subatomic object, these invisible rays.

In Genesis 1 the Spirit is the 'oscillating mediator'. The sacred prophet saw the Spirit appear as if an oscillating ray extending from God in Heaven down to the Earth. Now this might sound ridiculous but it is consistent with the command "Let light happen" as well as the prophetic experiences given to other Saints. In Blessed Anne's description of the light-event Blessed Anne said she saw a beam of light:

While these changes were going on upon the dark globe, I saw, as it were, a streaming forth of light out of that highest of all the spheres, the Godsphere, that sphere in which God dwelt. (Mysteries of the Old Testament)

In other words she saw a beam of light extend from Heaven to the Earth with the caveat, 'as it were'. The stream of light was not a physical phenomenon rather representative of a Divine phenomenon, namely the Spirit sent from God and imparting causal action to the Earth.

Theopholus of Antioch, a second century Church Father interprets the Spirit as 'holding the place of light' between Heaven and the waters of Earth's surface:

For the Spirit being one, and holding the place of light, was between the water and the Heaven, (Theophilus ad Autolycus, Genesis Commentary)

It is as if the Holy Spirit is a Ray of Light in the vision. This is significant, because the set of objects that mediate light between, or to and from all the atoms of the Universe, literally connects them all, and more all atoms assume their form from these invisible subatomic objects. So, the Spirit of God appearing as a Ray of Light in the vision shows that God is making a singular connection with the Earth.  No other astronomical object gets this sort of treatment.

The sacred author/prophet saw this beam of light so as to relay the mediation of the Spirit to us in words. The Spirit appeared as an extending ray of light from God in Heaven to the Earth. The symbolism is clear. The Spirit is a Mediator who connects the Earth to God in Heaven and stimulates the Earth. God mediates a supernatural work to the Earth's surface via the Spirit similar to an active-fusing star working the surface of a dark inactive star (a planet) via their EM radiation. God conceived of his miracle based on His previous works of the Universe namely the creation of atoms with their fundamental subatomic objects, and the formation of stars and their interrelations with other stars in a system.

The Hebrew Merahepet

Merahepet (transliterated) is the Hebrew action word assigned to the Spirit of God. The form of the word is a Pi'el singular participle of the verb root rahap. I assume rahap refers to a concept meaning to move back and forth or to and from. All verbs are a manner of motion. Like the Hebrew tohu wabohu this word is extremely rare (used only one other time in the Bible) and could be used as another argument that this Text is based off of a prophecy. The sacred author clearly wrote about extraordinary events and circumstances that could be described using rare words. How did he conceive of these events? God mediated a prophetic experience in the sacred author's brain.

Some have the Pi'el participle translated as 'hovering'. This translation is derived from usage of the verb 'rahap' in the Book of Deuteronomy 32:11 where the LORD is figuratively described as an eagle that moves over its young. A variation of this concept is 'fluttering'. The problem with this translation is that the Spirit of God is not figuratively described as a bird in the Genesis 1 context. It doesn't seem consistent with the Text that the sacred author visualized the Spirit of God hovering or fluttering over an entire planet in an eagle like apparition. So an analogous translation of the Pi'el rahap should be discarded for this context.

Other choose a more conservative translation such as 'the Spirit of God moved over', etc., etc. or 'the Spirit of God was brought over' etc., etc. Latin tradition). These translations are generic. All verbs are a manner of motion.  The root of merahepet could have been conceptualized from understanding a mother bird in relation to its young, or it could have been conceptualized by understanding another natural phenomena. Or perhaps the sacred author of Genesis 1 conceived of the concept signaled in the trace of the new verb merahepet via his prophetic experience! He saw an object appear to move back and forth on Earth's surface. In this context merahepet refers to a prophetic conceptualization of the movement of the Holy Spirit. The sacred author experienced a prophetic dream and conceived of his own concepts signaled by new words such as tohu wabohu and merahepet.

Merahepet could simply refer to a bi-directional motion such as the move alternatively back and forth. Perhaps the author of Deuteronomy adopted this verb from Genesis 1 so as to describe the motion of an eagle. The Hebrew interlinear CHES 2.0 version has merahepet translated as 'vibrating'.

I have the merahepet translated as 'oscillating' since I suppose the sacred author envisioned a ray of light emanating from God in Heaven to the Earth. This beam could have appeared to be oscillating between God in Heaven and the Earth. And of course I have already explained that this oscillating ray refers to an apparition of the Spirit and his causal action.

Another interesting note is that the verb is in a Hebrew Pi'el form. This form is interesting, as if it were tailor made for Trinitarian relations. Here is an excerpt taken from Jones:

. . .[Pi'el] indicates bringing about a state. Hebrew uses the Piel when the subject is putting the object into the state or condition corresponding to the meaning of the verb root. The object thus takes part in the action as a passive, secondary subject. Being a state, the action tends to be habitual or ongoing. ***

In terms of the linguistic form of the Hebrew Pi'el, the Father and the Son are the subjects, and the Spirit is the object. The Father and the Son are putting the Spirit into the continuous state of 'oscillating' over the Earth's surface. This is representative of the Spirit's causal action: a supernatural relation that stimulates Earth, changes her and puts out new forms, e.g. living objects. And the Spirit as a passive secondary subject takes part in the action. So in other words the Spirit moved toward the Earth on His own. The Spirit participates in His motion since the Three Persons act as One. The Spirit is a Mediator, A3 (as in above). He actively imparts causal action and this work is One with the Father and the Son who it is assumed in the narrative to have sent the Spirit and communicate 'commands' to the extended Spirit. The Hebrew Piel is custom-made by Divine Providence to communicate to the Holy Spirit’s Mission.

*** Jones, Scott Walker (2003) Hebrew for Biblical Interpretation, Society of Biblical Literature, p. 133

Genesis Series: Tehom (Abyss) of Genesis 1:2

In a beginning, God had created the form Heaven and the form Earth,
And when Earth existed as an astonishing-desert with darkness over a face of abyss

The translations of the Gen 1:2 tehom are not that varied:

ocean, abyss, the deep, deep waters, the watery deep.

For the Gen 1:2 context some choose to modify with primeval, so primeval ocean, etc.

The sacred author has abyss associated with the mayim, the Hebrew plural word translated as waters in the subsequent parallel phrase. Tehom is connected to mayim.

Abyss---waters.

The prominent linguistic work analyzing some of the Hebrew words of Gen 1:2 is David Toshio Tsumura's The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2. Tsumura analyses the word 'tehom' from many different angles and comes to the rational conclusion that it is not a mythic personification:

This Hebrew term tehom is simply a reflection of the Common Semitic term *tiham- "ocean" and there is no relation between the Genesis account and the so-called Chaoskampf mythology. (p. 65)

Another scholar, Roberto Ouro has some interesting notes:

The term tehom appears 36 times in the OT, in singular and in plural. This Hebrew term appears without an article in all texts but Isa 63:13 (singular) and Ps 106:9 (plural). Tehom always means a flood of water or ocean (abyss); there is no type of personification. The word appears in a context of creation" with no mythical reference. The word is used to designate a phenomenon of nature.  Many times tehom is parallel to mayim "water" or yam "sea". (THE EARTH OF GENESIS 1:2 ABIOTIC OR CHAOTIC? PART II, p. 47 see his excellent article here)

What I found interesting in Ouro is that the Hebrew word is not prefaced by an article. Thus it may refer to an undefined concept, not an object. The word is used to describe Earth's surface. The sacred author is not pointing to an object, he is rather describing an object, the Earth, with a concept 'abyss'. So I translate 'face of abyss' instead of 'face of THE abyss'. The Hebrew "tehom" is a concept that refers to a vast supply or gathering of water covering the Earth. It doesn't matter if the supply rests over the crust or is enclosed in the crust. It could be both.  Tehom simply refers to water supply or gathering of waters. Tehom is first and foremost a physical concept. And this is indisputable for this context.

It is intriguing since later in the narrative God organizes the waters into defined Seas implying that the surface of abyss is stimulated and broken up by the land perhaps from below. So there is a dynamic physical process described in the advance of the narrative that needs to be decoded by the reader and this corresponds to God working miracles. Otherwise the narrative would make no sense. Unfortunately some interpreters try to make sense of the narrative by reading myths, scientific theories such as Big-Bang or the creation and history of the angels.

In other contexts of Sacred Scripture 'tehom' takes on different references. It could be figured to refer to Hell. The sacred authors also use this word to refer to the event of the Great Flood. But that is a different context. I've spent many articles establishing the context I think the sacred author refers to based on a prophetic vision. Truly, the one of the biggest interpretive battles of Genesis One is establishing the context of the subject of the second verse: the Earth.

In Gen 1:2 'tehom' is used to describe the surface of an astronomical object that the sacred author saw in a vision induced by God. "darkness over a face of abyss" adds additional information and modification to the subject of the sentence, i.e. Earth. The Earth is first described as tohu wabohu then as a subset is described "with darkness over a face of abyss". The face is Earth's face, Earth's surface, not another object's surface, certainly not the surface of a concept since concepts have no form!!!

Assume that the face description refers to Earth's face and abyss is a facial feature. An analogy would be an eye with a surface of tears. The context gets confused if the subject of the sentence is not assumed as an astronomical object that the sacred author visualized as if face to face. The sacred author looks at the Earth which faces him as if with eyes looking at him.  The sacred author first describes that entire object is an astonishing-desert then he describes her face as dark and yet with a water supply. These are physical concepts since they are used in context to a physical object: the Earth. The observation of the sacred author was made possible by God who stimulated a prophetic experience in the brain of the sacred author.  The seeming contradiction of astonishing desert (tohu wabohu) with abyss and waters is that Earth's surface was cold in interstellar space.

Connection of the word 'tehom' to the mythical Tiamat or Chaos is a romantic fancy of scholars who are in the heat of love with the myths. They can love the myths all they want but they should not read them into Genesis 1, 2, & 3 which a Jew and Christian read with Faith. This is irrational and childish. God and the sacred author were oblivious in relation to the Ancient Near East myths. The sacred author was not influenced by the myths. He was influenced by God and his miracles. He was influenced by the prophetic 3D movie God worked in his brain.

Abyss Theory

The Earth was covered with a water supply mingled with various molecules and chemicals. The sacred author did not need to be aware or knowledgeable of all the chemicals since he relates a basic description of the surface and events. He identified water, since water is of course essential to living entities. There was a surface ocean. It was froze over and appeared as if a super dry barren desert much like one could describe Antarctica as a desert.

Where did the Earth's water come from? My personal belief is that the Earth synthesized H2O in her transformation from a young active-fusing phase. Earth is a cinder of what was once a star. After she left her fusion phase and shed zillions of atoms; she became less energetic and atoms vibrated less (she cooled).  In the process she synthesized molecules, chemicals, crystals, and so on from her atomic elements.  And she continued to compress. She was a chemical factory. At some time hydrogen and oxygen molecules in the outer layers of the Earth were stimulated [induced to pump and vibrate and spin, etc] by the atoms of the core at the right frequencies and amps so as to arrange to an abundance of the H2O compound. The spark of energy needed to form the waters came from within. Most of our water very well may have been homegrown and then held in snug via gravitational attraction and pressure. The synthesized waters may have helped the crust to form. Perhaps some planets of our system are synthesizing waters in a phase leading into a water-world, even as we speak.

If my personal belief is not right then perhaps Earth was a rogue planet.  In any case I also suppose that the Earth assimilated some water and chemicals in her march around the galaxy.  She may have assimilated some H2O through interstellar clouds or even accretion disks of newer stars like TW Hydrae.  Maybe that is why she has just a trace of heavier water (called D2O, deuterium oxide, where the Hydrogen atoms are deuterium 1 proton and 1 neutron). The theory that Earth assimilated her water supply from comets is irrational since the comets are observed to have D2O not H2O. Other than this the scientific establishment has no theory of the origin of Earth's water supply since their assumptions are limited by the scope of the ad hoc bloated and irrational nebular hypothesis.

Back to Earth's water supply. She has just a trace of D2O. She probably passed through some dense interstellar clouds through which she assumed some rare atomic elements, molecules and chemicals. Passages through interstellar clouds diversified her makeup and supplied her with rare atomic elements not able to be homemade e.g. uranium. Earth had a long journey prior to her meeting with the Spirit of God!

Just prior to the light-event, Earth's water supply was more or less froze over since the Earth was very old, and moving between stars (not locked into a system with another star). So she was an old dark star with a froze over water supply, a buried crust, a mantle and a core (she was differentiated). The surface of the Earth was, as it were, asleep. Her skin (outer layer) was shivering in interstellar space. There was no chaos happening at the surface and little or no atmosphere. Earth's surface was quiet; awaiting the miraculous stimulation worked by God via the Spirit. The water supply was mixed with a variety of chemicals such as methane, ammonia, CO2 (dry ice), carbon monoxide and other volatiles. This interpretive theory would give some credence to Sasson's hodgepodge translation of tohu wabohu. Her surface was a hodgepodge of chemicals. Underneath the frozen shell were subsurface oceans. In the vision the surface appeared to the sacred author as a vast super-desert and he was astonished. But in retrospect he knew that there were surface and subsurface waters since he saw the forming of the first Seas.

The Spirit stimulated the surface; kicked up the surface/subsurface waters and chemicals in stylish bands, did some reactions and stretched out the molecules all the way around the Earth in every direction so as to envelop her with a first modern atmosphere. From the locations where He kicked up the pillars he formed the lands. Once the crust miraculously appears up from beneath the waters the remaining surface waters were gathered to form primitive Seas. These Seas were soon inhabited by a pristine first generation of aquatic animals which God miraculously formed.  This is why God and the sacred author use two different concepts to describe the Earth's waters: abyss and later in the narrative (verse 10) ... Seas.  There is progress.