That’s all fine and good. Oh, I’ve read it many times. In fact studied it rather extensively. That still doesn’t change the fact that the first thing He created ended up vohu a bohu, without form and void. Can you answer why the first thing you say He did was such a mess in verse 2? After all, everything He created after that was very good.
Painters need paint, and an easel. Arguing that the creation process is messy, is just how it works.
“Can you answer why the first thing you say He did was such a mess in verse 2? After all, everything He created after that was very good.”
I don’t think that anything in verse 2 was a mess. You are making an unnecessary inference.
I see a developing story. First He did this; then He did that. The fact that he did “that” doesn’t mean “this” was not good.
Why is something being vohu a bohu inferior to, let’s say, making trees?
They are both marvelous and fascinating. They are both good.