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Nor would I ever attempt to change yours, but the article you gave me does not address tohu and bohu in the verse I posted. Which is essentially waste and ruin. And the word "was" is "became", which totally alters the english translation we are all so used to seeing. ( I wished someone would seriously address this simple sentence)

As for the verse about a 1,000 years with God is like a day, well, it says "like". It doesn't say it "is" a day. I find difficulty in reordering meanings based upon similes.
All too often entire dogmas are based upon such things. Said dogmas are the problem, not the solution.

Thank you so much for your post!

I've seen the verse you raise argued both ways with conviction and good cause. I don't wish to dispute anyone's interpretation.

The reason I suggested the above link is in the overall structure of the language as it was studied many years ago - in particular with regard to the days themselves. Lurkers following our conversation might find this excerpt of interest:

Each day of creation is numbered. Yet there is discontinuity in the way the days are numbered. The verse says: "There is evening and morning, Day One." But the second day doesn't say "evening and morning, Day Two." Rather, it says "evening and morning, a second day." And the Torah continues with this pattern: "Evening and morning, a third day... a fourth day... a fifth day... the sixth day." Only on the first day does the text use a different form: not "first day," but "Day One" ("Yom Echad"). Many English translations that make the mistake of writing "a first day." That's because editors want things to be nice and consistent. But they throw out the cosmic message in the text! Because there is a qualitative difference, as Nachmanides says, between "one" and "first." One is absolute; first is comparative. The link also contained this tidbit that Lurkers might find interesting:

Nachmanides further writes: "Misheyesh, yitfos bo zman" - from the moment that matter formed from this substance-less substance, time grabs hold. Not "begins." Time is created at the beginning. But time "grabs hold." When matter condenses, congeals, coalesces, out of this substance so thin it has no essence - that's when the Biblical clock starts.

Thank you for your sharing your views!