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"In the beginning, God created heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."
All this is to say that in the first day, or era if you will, there was an unfolding of the universe and eventual formation of the earth. It is easy for me to imagine the tumultuous vision that Moses had under the influence of the Holy Spirit. His words, though they mix the order of the creation days, adequately describe what physics tells us in our own time. This vision continues on to include, in the second through the sixth day, the beginnings of life and the ascension of man to whom God gives dominion over the earth.
"And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over...the earth, and over every creeping thing that dwells upon the earth. God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over...every living thing that moves upon the earth. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
There have been many discussions about the meaning and context of that short summation of creation. For me, although I know that what I write will be controversial to some, it seems obvious that the author, Moses, took it for granted that the easiest way to describe the stages of creation, from the beginning to the present era of man, was to break each era down into the days of a complete week. Moses did not have the benefit of thousands of years of scientific hindsight to express what was inexpressible in his time. How else to describe that which took thousands, millions, and ultimately billions of years to unfold.
"And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it He had rested from all His work which He had created and made."
Thus, we have the seventh day, being the Sabbath, to rest and reflect on the work of our past week. Our week of work is merely a small miracle mimicking the grand miracle of God's creation and the billions of years it took to complete it.
"In the beginning was the Word…" —John 1:1
Genesis 1 is not merely a creation story—it is a metaphysical map. It begins not with matter, but with meaning. A pre-existent cognitive structure—God the Father—speaks into chaos, and the Logos—God the Son— responds. This Word is not ornamental; it is procreant and all encompassing. It divides, names, blesses, and calls forth life. It is through this divine speech that habitable order emerges.
To be made in the image of God is to be endowed with speech that matters. Not just biologically, but morally. True speech—speech that mirrors the Logos—participates in creation. It brings light, clarity, and goodness. False speech fractures the image and returns us to chaos. That is why any story, fanciful or factual, that carries spiritual truth is ultimately beautiful and good—while any story that twists spiritual truth into lies and deception ends in ugliness and depravity.
My previous musings on Kindness, Superagency, and The Mind of God—is a meditation on that image. It explores how mercy, agency, and consciousness are not passive traits but active invitations. To speak truthfully is to echo the divine. To act mercifully is to reorder the world. To be conscious is to co-create reality.
In quantum physics, observation collapses possibility into actuality. The observer is not outside the system—they are entangled with it. This mirrors the Genesis account, where speech collapses chaos into cosmos. The Logos is the divine observer, and creation is the wave function made manifest.
Superagency, then, is not brute force—it is participatory resonance. It is the capacity to shape reality through moral alignment with the Logos. Just as quantum entanglement defies locality, moral speech defies isolation. A single act of mercy ripples outward, entangled with the moral fabric of the cosmos.
Consciousness is not merely awareness—it is a covenant. It is the divine signature within us, calling us to speak, act, and observe in ways that redeem. Genesis 1 is not just the beginning—it is the blueprint. And superagency, through the Holy Spirit, is our inheritance.
