The Gods Bring Order to Chaos
At the beginning of time, which was a very long time ago when our planet was young and there was only a formless, dark, chaotic and empty expanse of ocean everywhere with a mighty wind that raged across the surface of the water, the gods created the earth and the sky. Here is how it happened. One day Yahweh, god of the Hebrew people, had an idea. He said, “Let there be light,” and suddenly there was light shining on the dark turbulent waters of the vast ocean. Yahweh observed that light was a good idea. Then Yahweh separated the light from the darkness, and he called the light “day” and he called the darkness “night.” That was the first day. The next day Yahweh said, “Let there be sky in the middle of the water and let the sky separate the water into two parts. So Yahweh made the sky and then he divided the waters that were beneath the sky from the waters that were above the sky—and he called the sky the “heavens.” It all happened just...