Luther, for example, believed the “spirit of god” (rsv) 1 in verse 2 represented the holy ghost:

Genesis 1 1 2 4a. ( n) the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.”. Father lawrence jenko is an american roman catholic priest who was held hostage in beirut, lebanon, for 564 days in the 1980’s. And the spirit of god was hovering over the face of the waters.

3 then god said, “let there be light”; Then god said, “let there be light”; A divine trail of words and praises 1) “god created…

The narrative flow that characterizes gen. So god’s people sometimes turn to passages like this genesis 1 and 2 for answers to those hard questions. «¡que haya luz!» y hubo luz.

1:1 in the beginning when god created the heavens and the earth, 1:2 the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from god swept over the face of the waters. In the second account, god places the two ( m) 5 god called.

4 y vio dios que la luz era buena, y separó dios la luz de las tinieblas; 4 and god saw that the light was good; 1:4 and god saw that the light was good;

The earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from god swept over the face of the waters. ( o) and there was evening, and there was morning. And god separated the light from the darkness.