Verse 2, excerpt:
“And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
Comments:
I really love the poetic sort of way this sounds. It’s not just about the idea of the spirit, soul, mind, or will of God passing over the waters, to me it invokes the idea of God’s influence coming into (or being in) contact with the surface of the waters, the seas, or perhaps all of the still-unfinished surface of the world that in this description could have been imagined or believed by the writer to have been bathed in liquid all over - or, in a more literal way, if it were molten in what has been suggested to have been one of the actual earliest stages in the formation of the earth. But even if none of this sentence is to be taken literally, I still believe it to be a beautifully poetic way to say that God’s influence was upon the still-unfinished world.
