Genesis 1

I find Genesis chapter one to be the hardest chapter in the Bible for me to read. I have read it so many times through out my life that it can seem boring. This seems weird as I am writing it because it is such an action packed event that it should just completely leave me in awe. It kind of feels like that is a rudimentary teaching that I should be able to move beyond. But every time I want to read Genesis I need to read Genesis 1.

Another thing weird for me about Genesis 1 is that is challenges my logic. I believe in creation and not in Evolution for 2 reasons. One being that creation seems to make more since and the second and more important reason is that I believe everything else in the Bible is absolute truth so how can I say that Genesis one is not. Though when I read Genesis 1:2-5 "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day." It leaves me wondering why was there already water? How did God separate the light from the darkness?

Some other passage that seem troublesome are Genesis 1:6-8 "And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day." in combination with Genesis 1:14-18 "And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.'"

What is weird about these two passages to me is that God defines sky as an expanse between two waters so when God puts the stars and the Sun in this expanse it seems weird. Once again it doesn't make sense. So part of me wants to deny that it really happened. Though I have seen God do many thing that defy explanation. I have read about other things in the Bible that the only way to explain them is to say that God can do anything. So even though it seems that this explanation in Genesis 1 of how God created the world seems off. I trust that God can do it in any way he wants. Plus I have no clue how to create the universe so to claim that it seems wrong would be similar to me telling a heart surgeon or a nuclear scientist that the way they are explaining things doesn't make sense.