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Genesis 1:1 - “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

When God created the heavens, exactly what did He create?  Both young and old earth theologies generally interpret this to be a reference to something physical, as opposed to the Heavenly dimension.  This leaves two possibilities for interpretation: 1)The skies, which could include the entire atmosphere or only the firmament, 2)The celestial bodies.

The Skies
The idea that “heavens” refers to the sky, is based on the events of Day 2, when God created the firmament (i.e., the space between the oceans and the clouds), and called it “heavens”.  From a literary perspective, this is a perfectly acceptable interpretation.

The Celestial Bodies
The possibility that “heavens” refers to the celestial bodies is based on …

One of the most difficult doctrines in Christinianity to explain is that of the Trinity.  God’s triune nature, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, is easy to accept on faith, but difficult to reason through when hard pressed.  However, the nature of the Trinity is critical to the geocreationist view of the first 6 days.  The Father gave the commands, the Son carried them out, and the Holy Spirit assisted the Son however was needed.  The Trinity is also the explanation for Moses using the word Elohim in Genesis 1:1. 

The most common method of explaining the Trinity is showing how several scriptural anomalies are nicely resolved by the doctrine.  Unfortunately, this approach is easy to dismiss. “One …

Genesis 1:1 - “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

Having previously discussed the Geocreationist history of Genesis 1:1, let us now discuss who was there.  This is important, because it will help us interpret the rest of Genesis 1.

“In the beginning, God…”, or Elohim as it is renderred in the Hebrew.  There is much commentary on what Elohim means, and so I will only summarize it here.  The Jewish perspective is that Elohim, a plural form of God’s name, is an expression of His majesty and unequaled greatness.  This view is in fact true.  However, the Christian view is true as well, that Elohim is written as a plurarity because of God’s plural nature: …

Genesis 1:1 - “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

The geocreationist perspective is that Genesis 1:1 occurred before anything else.  Before God said “Let there be light,” He created the heavens and the earth.  Before moving over the surface of the waters, God created the heavens and the earth.  Before hovering over the deep, God created the heavens and the earth.  Before there was a “deep” covering a “formless and void” earth, “God created the heavens and the earth.”

It is a common view that this verse is merely a summary …

In the creation account of Genesis 1, God makes several creative pronouncements:
“Let there be light” - Day 1 - Genesis 1:3
“Let there be a firmament…” - Day 2 - Genesis 1:6a
“…let it divide the waters from the waters” - Day 2 - Genesis 1:6b
“Let the waters … be gathered … into one place” - Day 3 - Genesis 1:9a
“…let the dry land appear” - Day 3 - Genesis 1:9b
“Let the earth bring forth grass…” - Day 4 - Genesis 1:11
“Let there be lights in the firmament…” - Day 4 - Genesis 1:14
“…let them be … to give light on the earth” - Day 4 - Genesis 1:15
“Let the waters abound…” - Day 5 - Genesis 1:20a
“…let birds fly above the …