300 Foxes and a Donkey's Jawbone
The universe has an absolute frame of reference: the Earth is at the center. This is why the observable universe is a sphere of cosmological bodies which has an even distribution in every direction that we look.
A word frequently translated God is the Hebrew elohim. What's interesting is that the word is plural, denoting more than one. It's not a problem because we can resolve it with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Purging ties in with the broad narrative of scripture of refining and purification, the agent of which is the Lord Jesus Christ. Here's the meaning of the Hebrew root from which their word for soap is derived.
They key to understanding the inception of gravity as the creative act of the second day is the synchronicity between stretching out the heavens and establishing the foundations of the Earth. One command did both.
As we continue down our rabbit hole into the confluence of gravitation and redemption it's going to be helpful to think in terms of gravity, weight and weightlessness. The word redeem has some meaning to this effect.
The largest number of Hebrew uses of the phrase the foundations of the earth have been rendered from the Hebrew root yasad. It's here where we find the meaning which ties us directly to our Biblical theory of gravity.
The way we find all of the meaning which is contained in the phrase the foundations of the earth is to systematically examine all of the different Hebrew word combinations which have been translated this way.
The first thing we have to account for is Abraham's bosom. The meaning of this is simple, Lazarus was being consoled by Abraham: Abraham was giving Lazarus a hug. That's how simple it is.
With a few pieces of information we can take what we know about the Earth today and deduce what the Earth was like in the past. This is the alternative to using Uniformitarianism to assume that things were the same in the past.
Did the curse on the serpent happen immediately, or did it occur in the first generation of offspring? Since we don't know for sure let's consider what God said to Adam about the tree of knowledge.