[csense]

I don't. I'm questioning whether the interpretion of "void and without form" as meaning "having neither form nor substance" is correct. Putting this into context, we have "God created the earth, and there was no earth there".

I'm asking if it wouldn't make more sense in context to interpret it to mean "God created the earth, and it was lifeless and featureless", and proceed with creation from there.

You're still making the fundamental mistake that the first line in Genesis is an act of creation. It's not.

[tacticalogic]

You're still making the fundamental mistake that the first line in Genesis is an act of creation. It's not.

It certainly appears so. Is there some secret decoder ring you need to know it isn't really saying what it appears to say?