 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, let there be light, and there was light. I'm going to do just a little aside here because this is very interesting. The first sentence of the Bible, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, that one sentence contains everything that exists in our universe. In the beginning, time exists.