So you simply think that the human author was mistaken? Or that the human author's intent was to write mythology?
humans in the Holy Spirit were inspired to write what they wrote and it so happens that someone can write out much more than they consciously grasp. but in general I see the bible being written by wise men and so i think they in some measure understood what they wrote.
So when Genesis 1 says "and there was evening and there was morning, the first day", what does it mean? How should we interpret those words?
the quick answer is in this color, scroll down.
there is more hidden wisdom than revealed in the bible and it's hard to speak about what i want to say because so many things are being said. I'm trying to find a way to express this simple part that you ask about. it's hard for me. i'm going to ramble best I can. it's not like I fully grasp the Nature of the Trinity and this is what it's ultimately about, though I understand that the Trinity is how God acts within himself to create and to commune with himself. remember that all things are inside of God, there is no where to be but God because only he IS... in the ultimate sense of the meaning of reality. but he afforded an space for creation to be within himself... as the jews say, God empties himself in order to create.
the creation myth trys to sum up reality and vaguely describes something that the original Word, that created the universe, is the original image of. and so it is a revelation of God from the second or the soul rather than the first or spirit because the soul is wedded to the spirit and the soul is like the woman of the spirit who is the man. the souls nature is feminine because when God takes the woman out of man from his rib, it shows the spirit is the macro reality and the soul is the micro reality even though they are the same adam before God put him in a slumber. so in the heavenly marriage the woman and man are reunited which is like a symbol of the universe becoming fully conscious again and its purpose for going to sleep ( the universe in it's current state) was to dream of it's perfect counterpart (we being conscious creatures and the universe at large being fundamentally proto-consciousnesses).
Gen 1:1-5 (YLT)
In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters, and God saith, `Let light be;' and light is. And God seeth the light that it is good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness, and God calleth to the light `Day,' and to the darkness He hath called `Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day one.
this entire chapter seems to be about the soul being made in the image of God who is a Trinity. the first letter of the bible is a beth. that is the 2nd letter. it means house. the soul is Gods temple/home. also of note, the Son of God is the second person of the Trinity.
some dualities in here that are unified to make a whole are:
heavens and earth
waste and void
light and darkness
day and night
evening and morning
the Father and the Son go together and that is the kingdom of God which is the third person called the Holy Spirit. two always imply a third if they are in union.
there is not a heavens apart from an earth, they imply one another.
waste and void defines what the earth was so that is another 3.
light and dark go together as well. God calls the light good, and it is the symbol of the Sons divinity, though the darkness is too the Son but the darkness expresses the freedom of the humanity of Jesus rather than the freedom of the divinity (light) of Jesus. in Christ humanity is perfected but in the process of the development of the soul there is a duality until God saves us and completes us and we freely go to him. so God called the light out and called it good but does not do such with the darkness for this reason that will follow... for though God has command of the light he can not dominate the darkness and the Son too though freely picking God in his divinity seeing that he is called by God and then named good and is thus already one with his Father seeing that they are both light... the darkness must also freely pick God with the darkness part of his nature which is humanity and creation and of which is totally other than the nature of God. and yet in the Son those two are in that most profound and perfected state and the entire process of the creation of our soul and of all of reality is inside of this mystery that the Trinity is having.
so in each of us there is a part that God calls and that answers to God but we as darkness must also cast ourselves to God fully for though God gave us those divine potentials to be his child, which the light is a symbol of the divine seed, that darkness is our own freedom that must also freely give itself to God, it is the hope of God when he said "our whole eye should be single" and that the seed of light fill the fullness of the darkness least we remain separated from God and cut off from that higher revelation of Gods light that is in us, so it is not good to remain separated from the darkness and originally the light and darkness were one.
so the light is like a tree of life and if it sprouts in the darkness then the darkness too performs it's proper place but if this dark ground of our freedom does not have a light sprout up and grown to God then it remains darkness and God does not call us, for we have not given ear and therefore light does not go out, but remains hidden. and yet in the calling out of light from darkness, the darkness is not annihilated but it performs it's own actions in relation to the light because the Son of God is fully human and fully God and this is his nature forever.
or another way of looking at the darkness and light is that the darkness is Gods other but the power of the holy spirit overshadows this mary the virgin and this darkness called mary the virgin gives birth to the light. so Gods wholly other is that which God uses to give birth to his Son and the father is like the son being a blinding light and the son like the father, being a light. yet the Father is always greater than or transcended to the Son because he is the Father of the Son but in that union they have always had, they gave birth to themselves. for the son reveals the father and the father reveals the son.
day and night make a total day and they seem like opposites but then further it is said
"evening and morning the first day"... and evening and morning imply either an going down of the sun when light turns into darkness and of a coming up of the sun which is darkness turning into light. and this signifies the profound union of what at first would appear to be a separation. it is both a separation and a union, it is both because of the preservation of the mystery of the Trinity.... for the yin and yang have doors in one another and flow into one another.
for the 6 days it is said "evening and morning the X day" because at the end of each day of creation it is complete and whole in itself though at the first it appears to be a duality/seperation. yet evening and morning are darkness and light together.
thats the best i can do for now, sorry.
