1:2
And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Void “There is no chaos in Genesis 1, only emptiness,” Mike Bull writes. “Chaos is the result of the original sin.” This is a great counter-point to the theistic evolutionists who so often use “chaos” as a code word (or a cop-out) to invite worldly interpretations into the text. Nothing about chaos is “good,” therefore it cannot be found in Genesis 1 where goodness is all there is.
2:16–17
And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may surely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat from it; for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”
Tree of the knowledge of good and evil To shun the fruit of the tree was to know good in obedience to God, but to partake of it was to know evil in rebellion to God. Though tempted by the serpent, that first couple ultimately chose to partake of it, seeing that “the tree was desirable to make one wise;” they ultimately chose to do what was right in their own eyes—eyes which had already been graciously opened to good by God and only then opened to evil by their own sin.