stands to reason...
the void has 'nothing' of shape, size, location, motion......
nothing of contrast
nothing to see or feel
the void was perfect
completely.....uniform
no law given......no law to break
but then.....Let there be light
and I have posted elsewhere.......light is an aberration
Void is not really all that useful definition, unless you think the "cosmic space" as void.
If you think void is absolute nothingness, as in no particles or subatomic particles and no energies, then you need to provide evidences that such a claim is possible.
Can you provide evidences for your claim?
In Genesis 1, it described the earth being created in the first verse, along with the heavens, so I am assuming "heavens" mean the "universe":
Genesis 1:1-2 said:
1 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, 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.
But in the next verse it say the Earth is a formless void.
If the earth is a void, and if void is "nothing", then how an there be void if the Earth exist.
To re-quote your reply:
stands to reason...
the void has 'nothing' of shape, size, location, motion......
nothing of contrast
nothing to see or feel
If what you say about void, been nothing, then the earth being a formless void are contradiction to what you are claiming.
If the earth exist, then it cannot be a void.
And if Genesis say water and wind exist, then there is no void, because winds and water are not "nothing"; water and wind are something.
Water is substance and so is wind; neither of them are "nothing". The earth is something, not nothing.
You are contradicting what Genesis say, and Genesis contradicts itself, if you were to believe "void" = "nothing".
And this is ignoring the current knowledge of physical cosmology, like the Big Bang cosmology.
According to Genesis 1:1-2, it stated that the earth was created first, before "light" was first created (1:3-5, hence 1st day), and before the sun and moon - the two great luminaries - and stars were created (Genesis 1:14-19, hence the 4th day).
But according to current knowledge of astronomy and cosmology, the Earth as well as the entire Solar System, didn't exist 5 billion years ago.
Before our Solar System formed less than 5 billion years ago, older stars existed in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
One of the nearest stars, is the binary star system (two stars orbiting around each other), called Sirius. Because of the closeness to our solar system (8.6 light years away), it is the brightest star in our night sky.
And one star is brighter than the other, Sirius A and Sirius B. Sirius B star is a
white dwarf star, meaning it is what is left of the dying star - the star's core, where all the outer layers of Sirius B have been stripped away, expelling the debris.
Any white dwarf star would be 9 billion years or older. That's the reason why Sirius B is fainter and cooler than Sirius A (a
white main sequence star, meaning it is still fusing hydrogen atoms into helium).
Another dying star, Arcturus, is a
red giant star, is about 7.1 billion years old, and that's only 36.7 light years away from Earth.
So Genesis 1:14-18 is wrong if you think the Earth is older than these two stars that are.
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Note that "main sequence" stars, like our Sun, are still fusing hydrogen atoms together to form a new helium nucleus, at the star's core. This process of fusion is known as "Stellar Nucleosynthesis".
One day, our Sun will run out of hydrogen to fuse, so astrophysicists have predicted that it might start fusing helium atoms to heavier elements, like carbon atoms, which mean it will no be main sequence star, thereby by become a red giant star. This will not happen until another 4 billion years from now. When that happened, Mercury will be devoured by the red giant Sun.