The Story of a Beautiful Garden Adam and Eve Bible Story Genesis
i: 1, to iii: 24 This great round world, on which we live, is
very old; so old that no one knows when it was made. But long
before there was any earth, or sun, or stars, God was living,
for God never began to be. He always was. And long, long ago,
God spoke, and the earth and the heavens came. But the earth was
not beautiful as it is now, with mountains and valleys, rivers
and seas, with trees and flowers. It was a great smoking ball,
with land and water mingled in one mass. And all the earth was
blacker than midnight, for there was no light upon it. No man
could have breathed its air, no animals could walk upon it, and
no fish could swim in its black oceans. There was no life upon
the earth. While all was dark upon earth, God said, "Let there
be light," and then the light began to come upon the world. Part
of the time it was light, and part of the time it was dark, just
as it is now. And God called the dark time Night, and the light
time Day. A