We all are governed by laws. Whether at home or at work or at play we are governed by laws. Laws did not create themselves from a blob of protein or whatever, they exist because God exists and because God exists we exist. Gods laws are to guide us in righteousness.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen 1:2 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. Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
In Genesis 2 we read Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The tree of life is metaphorically pointing to the Word of God from whom Adam & Eve were to eat. Although man was given dominion over the creation man (which includes women) were still to look to God for their source of knowledge and wisdom. God would still be worshipped and He would rule over them. Therefore, spiritually they had to eat from the tree of life.
Now the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was also in their midst. Metaphorically this points to having the knowledge of both good and evil, truth and lies, right and wrong. Adam and Eve at this stage only knew good, they were perfect in every way. They were created in the image of God and God is perfect and it is impossible for God to sin. Now in Genesis 3 we see that the serpent beguiled the woman and seduced her away from God with his cunning lies. She wanted to be like God knowing good and evil. Simply put she ate from the lies of the serpent. Now again metaphorically the serpent points to Satan as the seducer and the dragon the persecutor. What does he want? He wants others to follow his rebellion and worship him and so that is what happened man rebelled against God and therefore were separated from God because of that one sin. They chose to follow the lie and fallen man is still following the lies of their spiritual father today, that is, Satan. When you eat something it goes into the bowels and is for your nourishment. Therefore. What we believe goes into the heart and directs the man, woman or child. Who and what we believe governs us and our thinking. Just to mention, God is three persons and man was created in His image with a body, soul and spirit. The soul consists of the mind, will and emotions. When God breathed into the nostrils of the man he became a living soul. At the fall man died spiritually because of their separation from God. At death the soul returns to God who gave it for judgement.
The world became full of spiritual darkness because this fall.
John 1:1-5 relates to Genesis 1:1-5. Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God. Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
In John 1:14 we see that the Word became flesh - Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Now in the Gospel of John we see that the first 5 verses related to the Genesis account. Understand that this was written over 4000 years after the fact of creation. We see that the Word, the Tree of Life, was with God in the beginning. Therefore, it proves beyond a doubt that God (Elohim plural) created everything. Present was God the Father, God the Son (the Word of God – the Manna from heaven), and the Holy Spirit who moved over the face of the waters. Know too that the waters are metaphorically pointing to the nations. So as we see even today that spiritual darkness is over the nations and so the promise of the Holy Spirit would be that He would be poured out on all flesh to convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgement (John 14-16; Acts 1-2) and so when God says let there be light it is not referring to the sun or the moon or the stars because they came later in Genesis 1:14-19. When God says let there be light He was saying let there be truth in the darkness, let Him shine in a dark world. Let Him show the way to the Father and that all life is in Him alone (John 14:6). Now in John 1:4-5 we see John saying just that. Light was there in the beginning and that light would separate the light from the darkness in other words through Him alone would men, women and children come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved from the lies of the god of this world and whom fallen men worship and follow (Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28; John 8). So, after man fell they chose to follow the lie rather than the truth and therefore all those in the first Adam still to this day follow the lies of the serpent – Satan.
Now in John 1:14 we see that the Word – the Tree of Life – became flesh and made His dwelling amongst us. Because man could not atone for his own sin God had to become a man, a perfect man without sin in body, soul or spirit and die for man on a cross taking the judgement for our sin upon Himself. Dying on the cross he said “it is finished” (John 19:30) – what is finished - the redemption of man – that is, He purchased men for God – for all those who believe the truth. He was buried and was resurrected and all those who follow have the blessed hope of the resurrection because He was the first fruits of the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15). All those who still live and are in Christ at the end will be fetched as the Bridegroom comes back for His bride (John 14).
Now because the whole of creation, that includes everything we see above, is under the curse God is going to destroy everything and make an end to those who will not obey the gospel and continue to believe the lies of the god of this world Satan (Revelation 6-22 Emphasis Chapter 17-20) (Note: Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. Note: there was not more sea – once again the seas point to the nations and at the end of the millennial reign and the judgement of God the old heavens and earth are destroyed – passed away). Note too that if there were creatures on other planets in other galaxies they would too have been under the curse mentioned in Genesis 3 and so how could it ever be that they would hear the gospel? There is no other living matter outside of our earth if there were it would have been placed into Gods Word and there is no mention of any such thing. It would mean that Jesus Christ would have to have gone to every planet to show Himself risen from the dead and the Word of God says that He appeared to those on this earth that He had called.
Instead of man becoming better, as per the lie of evolutionary progression, they are getting worse and worse and it will get to a time that it will be as it was in the days of Noah that mans heart will be continually evil all the time (Genesis 6-7) men scoffing at the truth pushing the evolution lie despite that God said that all were created according to their kind – that is to their genetic footprint. There can be interbreeding amongst animals bringing in different species of the same kind. Man too can intermarry with other so called racial groups and have children that are different to the parents having the DNA/genes of the parents. It did not take millions of years to produce this different child only 9 months until birth and that by Gods foreknowledge and design.
You can go with the evolution lie as much as you want but if you do not believe the first words of the bible which state “in the beginning God…” then you will definitely will not believer the rest of the bible.
God created the heavens and the earth in 6 literal days and on the seventh He rested. I say, enter into His rest all those who believe and stop trying to work out things that are quite plain in the Word of God. Come through Jesus Christ and enter into a relationship with Him again and eat from the Tree of Life – the Word of God in the power of Gods Spirit and you will come to know the truth and the truth will make you free.
I have another teaching that will supplement this one on Genesis 1:14-19 that shows that Christ is the centre of the creation and all of creation should be worshipping Him. To include it here would make this post too long.