Question about the first and second days...

[crawfish]

From days 3-6, everything God created was good. However, on day one, after having separated the light from the darkness, ONLY the light is mentioned as being good. On day two, it is not indicated that anything created was good.

Why is this?

 

[gluadys]

From days 3-6, everything God created was good. However, on day one, after having separated the light from the darkness, ONLY the light is mentioned as being good. On day two, it is not indicated that anything created was good.

Why is this?

As far as the first day goes, my guess is that only the light is named as good because only the light is created. Darkness was already present in the beginning. (v. 2)

Regarding the second day, I have no idea.

 

[crawfish]

Not many takers.

That was my thought on the first day - "darkness" referred to the void that existed before God put light into it.

However, a Jewish professor made this point: in ancient Mesopotamian cultures, both "darkness" and "the deeps" were connected with evil; to them, both were equally unknowable; as far as they knew, the deeps went down as far as the heavens went up. When God doesn't indicate both of these as "good", it is because He didn't create either; he was responsible for creating the good that cut between them. It was essentially an argument against ex nihlo creation.

I'd like to argue that, but for the life of me, I can't think of another explanation, and I cannot seem to find one online.

 

[mythbuster]

Perhaps because in the air there are fallen angels, (see Ephesians 2:2 and 6:12) and the water is the dwelling place of the demoms. (In Matt. 12:43 there is no rest for demons in waterless places. Also see Matt 8:31)

Maybe this is why for the second day that God said the expanse (the air) or the waters were good.

shalom