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1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Could God have created the universe in 6 days out of light?
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A kalpa is a single daytime period in the life of Brahma, the creator god. Two kalpas are a day and a night of Brahma.
Each kalpa is composed of 1,000 maha yugas. A kalpa is thus equal to 4.32 billion human years.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
First off, your question about why would an Omnipotent Being need... makes no sense. I never understood these types of questions. Who are you to say how an Omnipotent Being can or cannot use these things He Created?
The Hebrew term used is bara which means create or fashion.
We bara or create on a much smaller level. This is bringing into existence something new out of what has already been created.
So someone had to bara a car or bara a TV. So a TV set didn't exist before it was created but the materials existed and the human mind bara or created it. When a person starts a business they're bringing into existence something new and they use what has already been created to fashion their new idea. A storefront, HTML or Java to build a new website.
So again, it makes no sense to say what an Omnipotent Being can or cannot do.
Why did God have Jesus be born through a woman and go through pregnancy and childhood when he could have just poofed Jesus into existence because he's an Omnipotent Being?
Just because he's an Omnipotent Being doesn't mean he never acts within the laws he created.
In my personal view, we all share in the essence of the Creator. God experiences his creation through us.