This excerpt from Genesis is the story of the beginning for us. It is the beginning of our world, the beginning of the creation story. It is also the beginning of a metaphor that runs through scripture. We read that God called the light good. We assume that makes the darkness bad. We see this metaphor many times in scripture. The advent scripture tells us of how we walked out of the darkness. We are told to turn our faces towards the light of God. Light and darkness are often compared to good and evil. It was an obvious conclusion for biblical times. Bad things often happened under the veil of darkness. They didn’t have the scientific knowledge that we have today.