Bible fic maybe? A bit of Sunday contemplation

[marbleglove]

 
Before the beginning, there was chaos. It was perfect in its complexity; it was perfect in its simplicity. It was timeless.

Then, because He could, God said, "Let there be light." And there was light.

And because there was light, there was also darkness.

The light was good.

And because there was good, there was also evil.

It was enough for a time. It was the very first thing ever to be enough for a time, for time itself was new. The creation of light brought time with it, for now there was before-the-light and there was after-the-light. So for a period of after-the-light, the light was enough.

Then it was not enough and, again, because He could, God said, "Let there be land, and let there be sea." For now, after-the-light, He knew that opposites must always come at the same time.

The second creation brought with it a further development of time. Now there was before-the-land and after-the-land. Now there was after-the-light-but-before-the-land. Now there was a time with both a beginning and an end. It was a day.

Seven times, He created.

He created plants, vegetables, and fruit.

He created the beasts of the land, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea.

He created mankind, made in His own image. And yet, made in His own image, they still were not like Him. They were in the image of what He had been before He had made light.

The land and the people were good, but they were too perfect. The perfection was too great in its simplicity, and not great enough in its complexity.

On the eighth day, after seven creations, in the only time period remaining that had a beginning but no end, after-the-light, after-the-land, after-mankind, God made His last creation. It was His most subtle creation--more subtle than light and more subtle than the oceans of the deep dark sea--He walked in the Garden with mankind and told them of the forbidden Tree of Knowledge.

He told mankind--the mankind that He had made in His own image, in the image of the being who had come from perfect chaos to creation imperfect light--what was forbidden. Thus His final creation was temptation.

Then He rested. And He waited.