A Literal Interpretation of Genesis 1 Cosmology

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1. My interpretation;
   Verse 1 is God creating the whole universe.
   Verse 2 is God removing the darkness from the face of the deep.(there could be land underneath we don't know) Verse 6 could be referring to the water cycle being created so the water is no longer in one place.
   Verse 9 is God gathering the waters below in one place BY allowing the land to come up from under the water.
   Verse 14 doesn't use the word "create" but rather "made". God made them appear so I'm assuming the lights existed and God either appointed them to be the lights or he made them visible by clearing something that was in the way.
2. interesting. Check out a Biblical Flat Earth https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110948746616556574259
3. Assuming Moses existed, doesn't it seem slightly odd that he dies at the end of Deuteronomy? If Moses wrote the books of Moses wouldn't he have had to have written about his death before it actually happened?
4. @WolfSyndrome Not just the creation from water, but the formation of order from primeval chaos. This is a feature of other creation myths from the Ancient Near East, most notably (in this case) Enuma Elish, the creation myth of the Babylonians which exalts their national god, Marduk. In fact, Genesis 1 seems to be polemicizing against this creation myth. SuperFly covered this well in the following videos: /watch?v=jDGH8yypjJY (starting at 8:19) /watch?v=DYEFv0OLf0M
5. @violentlygraceful part 2 - In the past, there have been many such instances of prosecution by various churches within christianity for holding beliefs that now we know as factual science. What we get from modern "literalists" (i.e YEC) is an extremely superficial and cultic literalism and there is no such thing as biblical inerrancy. The sternest literalist today would be declared the most heretical and unbelieving person by the early christians, to whom which would be stupidly figurative.
6. @violentlygraceful This plain interpretation that you gave had been the consensus view of virtually everyone until the Renaissance.The message in genesis is so unambigous that belief in contrary was taken as an act of unbelief or heretical. For example,in 1615,a Carmelite friar by the name of Paulo Antonio Foscarini was prosecuted by the Congregation of the Holy Office for his book wherein he maintained that the heaven is very thin and tenuous as opposed to the established view that it is solid.
7. Can you like him spread out/beat out [raqa] the sky, [which is] as hard as a cast metal mirror? (Job 37:18) This verse is just one of hundreds of instances where the sky above us is clearly depicted as firm-solid in the bible. And often, so considerably detailed in its description of the sky, i.e. firmament in genesis. It can not be more unequivocal and clear than this. Only willful ignorance or serious intellectual dishonesty can account for the claim that bible is the inerrant word of god.
8. Dude, you *get it*!!!! Kudos.
9. @tierragloriosa If God gave man the KJV he would have used better English. And IF all scripture is inspired he would have done a much better job. 
10. @tierragloriosa Why, precisely, is the KJV the best translation? It uses archaic language which is difficult to read, is inaccurate in its translation of various words, and doesn't use the best manuscripts available. Also, the use of 2 Tim 3:16 is anachronistic. The only writings considered scripture at the time it was written were those which comprised the Hebrew Bible.
11. @tierragloriosa That's an odd question. Moses did not write the first five books of the Bible, that much is clear. To say so is a dogmatic presupposition which is not supported by the evidence. I'm sure you've heard of the Documentary Hypothesis. It seems like a good (but not perfect) explanation for why the Pentateuch appears as it does.
12. @AgentOfDoubt Both the sun and the moon are referred to as a maor, which means light, shining or bright. If someone is changing the definition of the moon in this chapter, they also have to change the definition of the sun.
13. @wayman29 is tühôm what is referred to as "the deep" in verse 2?
14. Nice Job! NJPS says when God began to create the heavens and the earth. Your right about dusk and dawn...nice Job! There are three waters maºyim, yâm, and tühôm.
15. great to see someone really taking the time to examine the creation story this way. If people could see how and why the writers wrote things to be the way they did this might well help some people to not be so blind in their literal beliefs of it all.