Genesis, Chapter 1, Verses 2-5

Essentially, these three verses cover the beginning of God’s creation of the earth, specifically with the emergence of day and night through his creation of light and its subsequent demarcation from darkness. But a close reading of these verses seems to indicate at least two inconsistencies.

First, verse 4 reads:

And God saw the light, that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness.

God saw the light, that it was good?

This passage implies that God created light and only then determined that it was good. If this is true, then several questions must be asked.

Why wouldn’t an all-powerful deity already know that his creation would be good?

Isn’t everything that God creates fundamentally good?

In fact, by indicating that God saw the light and only then realized that it was good, doesn’t this imply that God had no idea what light would look like until the moment of its creation?

This doesn't make any sense. Are we expect to believe that the Almighty created something that he could not accurately envision until it took earthly form and could only then make a valid judgment regarding its worth?

More importantly, God’s estimation that light was good indicates the possibility that the light might not have been good, and if so, we are back to the dodo bird and the fact that God appears to be the creator of imperfection. Even worse, it appears that he is incapable of assessing the degree of imperfection until after its creation.

God does not seem as all-knowing and all-powerful as I once thought.

Verse 5 indicates that God called the light day and the darkness night, which I find fascinating. First, it appears that God felt the need to specifically assign names to these time frames.

Why?

In fact, why would God even possess language at this point? On the first day of creation, there was no one with whom he could talk? Are we expected to believe that God existed for an infinite period of time on his own yet always possessed the ability to speak in words that human beings would understand, even though it's already clear that he was unable to accurately envision his creations ahead of time?

But even more remarkable, God created and named the day and the night at least five full days before he created human beings. So how did mankind manage to adopt the same names that God assigned to night and day considering that human beings did not exist when the naming process took place?

Did God inform Adam and Eve of his naming decisions upon their creation?

Did he leave them a post-it note on the Tree of Knowledge?

Did God have any idea about what he was doing when he began this process? Did he really have a plan?

These verses seem to indicate otherwise.