In the Beginning

Genesis 1; v2 tells us only that Earth had existed, and was made waste by a flood, and was dark.

Some commentaries put this in the time of Lucifers fall and being cast to earth. Whereupon God cursed the earth, to end his reign there. It is after this, Genesis 1 v3 picks up the story of restoration of the earth, and the creation of living beings, which would culminate in the creation of man.

Man was...