Hi Peg
Sorry I'm late to this discussion as I've been away and apologise if the following questions have already been raised.
So basically, in short, God created the entire universe which included earth is mentioned in Vs 1. And at some point in time he came back to the earth and began to prepare it for habitation. The preparing of it is the 6 'days' mentioned from vs 2 onward.
You interpret "God made the heavens and the earth" (verse 1) to mean he made the entire universe, and you claim that was done before the 6 days of work to get the earth inhabited.
What exactly were the heavens? The sky? No, it couldn’t have been because he didn’t make the sky until the end of the 1st day (verse 8). The stars then? No, it couldn’t have been because he didn’t make the stars until the 3rd day (verse 16).
He makes light - to separate day and night - twice. First on day 1 (verses 3-5), and then again on day 3 (verses 14-19) — that second time after he made the photosynthesising plants. Why twice? Does he have a short memory, or did the first light go out? And if he didn’t make the stars until the 3rd day, what was the source of the original light that he made to create days 1 and 2?