On the second day of creation God tells us he put a barrier between heaven and earth. Unlike the work of every other day of Creation God did not evaluate this barrier as good.
Paul writes to the Ephesians that Jesus unites heaven and earth together as God had wisely planned for him to do so.
If you go to the Bible expecting it to be a book that is all about sin and redemption then you are deciding that you don’t want to understand all of it.
Is there a specific text (or texts) that nails it in Ephesians?
And the slap in the face in the last sentence is a bit gratuitous, don’t you think? Unless it’s so obvious taht youdidn’t have to learn it either.
“On the second day of creation God tells us he put a barrier between heaven and earth. Unlike the work of every other day of Creation God did not evaluate this barrier as good.”
What is said in Genesis 1:2 of the chaotic condition of the earth, is equally applicable to the heaven, “for the heaven proceeds from the same chaos as the earth.”
Gen 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Heaven is not eternal, but created. It is also seemingly the realm of evil creatures.
Eph 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Also consider:
The expression in Gen_1:4, “God saw the light that it was good,” for “God saw that the light was good,” according to a frequently recurring antiptosis (cf. Gen_6:2; Gen_12:14; Gen_13:10), is not an anthropomorphism at variance with enlightened thoughts of God; for man’s seeing has its type in God’s, and God’s seeing is not a mere expression of the delight of the eye or of pleasure in His work, but is of the deepest significance to every created thing, being the seal of the perfection which God has impressed upon it, and by which its continuance before God and through God is determined. The creation of light, however, was no annihilation of darkness, no transformation of the dark material of the world into pure light, but a separation of the light from the primary matter, a separation which established and determined that interchange of light and darkness, which produces the distinction between day and night. (Keil and Delitzsch Commentary)
The mere existence of your so-called barrier between heaven and earth does not imply that it was not good. God did walk with prelapsarian Adam in the garden. Death, nakedness and the angel with the flaming sword were not-so-good barriers.